Creed Silver Mountain Water evokes sparkling streams coursing through the snow-capped Swiss Alps, a bracing landscape in which Olivier Creed, a championship skier, finds relaxation and renewal. A bestseller since its launch, this modern scent captures the purity of the mountains-soft, milky-sweet blackcurrants mixed with green tea, the richness of bergamot, and sandalwood.

Fragrance Family: Water

Main Notes: Bergamot, Mandarin Orange, Green Tea, Black Currant, Musk, Petitgrain, Sandalwood, Galbanum, Musk

Concentration: Eau de Parfum

Occasion: An all occasion and context fragrance.

Made in France

Silver Mountain Water demonstrates an excellent quiet intensity. There are no sharp edges to this fragrance, but rather a misty, ephemeral, and silvery breeze, rich with aromatic green tea, sweet and sticky blackcurrant, and a refined base of sheer musk. This is an essay on direct masculine purity, of cool and clear mountain water against a classic woody base.

Fruity, sharp and inky. Its just too much for me, the tea is somehow too loud here, the blackcurrant is going strong and there is this plasticky musk. Top 5 worst Creeds.

Tea and currants sound like an amazing combination, but the tea is acidic and overpowering and the currants are sour and off-putting. I saw a review for the Armaf clone of this saying it was an "overhyped bottle of wtf". The negative reviews of Sillage soberly describe my experience with this fragrance.

This is one of Creed's most acclaimed scents and Armaf's second biggest cloned fragrance. I can't understand how this is so popular as I cannot begin to understand the appeal this has beyond the bottle.

It opens up with some citrus and bergamot that introduces a dry bitter citrus undertone that is met with black currant and tea notes. The concoction comes off of something that is metallic, herbal, and fresh. After a while the base is supported with the familiar ambergris note with some musk and woods.

Performance was okay, I got around 6 hours with this scent. This is probably more ideal for the spring months just when the weather is warming up. I could see this working for both casual and work settings. I personally do not see myself reaching for this one.

What I find remarkable is that over half of the neutral and negative reviews seem to list "short duration" as the number one complaint with this fragrance. Every Creed I have tried, including GIT, have suffered from this deficiency. Really like the scent, the black currant is really unique, the citrus is juicy and musk soothing - but only for a short time. I really enjoy SMW, but the price and short life make this a no-go for me.

Despite the large volume of reviews for this one, I saw virtually no mention of alternatives. Armaf Club de Nuit Sillage is an incredibly close copy. Bergamot, black currant, tea, musk, amber - it is all there. But unlike SMW, it is a beast. I put a single shot on my forearm at the office, and within a minute my two co-workers in the next room were opening their windows and saying that the scent was overwhelming. [Note to self: apply at home at least a half hour before getting to work]. Creed can't touch this. And duration - ACdNS is at least double SMW. Price? Around $30.

So if you are one of those who said that SMW was "nice, but too fleeting" or "great smell but not worth the price", give Armaf Sillage a try.

A great summer fragrance between an Eau de toilet and an EDP, simple but complex with a refined blend of citruses, musk, rooty vetiver, celery, fennel seeds, woody notes, and ambergris. The rooty vetiver gives a coffee feeling to the nose. It seems each bach is different so mine has a sour/coffee side blended with the citruses. Not a feminine fragrance but a sophisticated scent for any occasion and time of the day, long-lasting on the skin and on fabrics, also not loud or weak. I wonder if the name ''Silver Mountain'' has any relation with the ''Silver Mountain'' in Huerfano, Colorado, US ? Did the ''Sangre de Cristo Mountains'' [Blood Of Christ Mountains] and the Crystal Fall in Colorado, both close to each other, inspired Oliver Creed to create Silver Mountain Water?

Green tea & black currant with strong metallic notes...on my skin, I get mostly metalic black current with a little green and citrus. Fairly linear. Stronger than VIW, but nowhere near Aventus.

Not a fan of the metallic note and something about the dry down doesn't agree with my kin. Pretty meh, especially considering the price.

7.0/10

Pleasant and fresh but nothing special considering the price. In fact close up something jars which seems to be a sour citrus mix. So I would not buy it. Would I wear it if someone gave me a bottle? Only if I ran out of Milesime Imperial!

Fragrance: 7/10 Projection: 7.5 Longevity: 7.75

SMW really was the spark that revived my sense of smell and made me realize just how much I had neglected it for decades. My job required me to visit homes, thousands of them and I subconciously became anosmic. Food, mold, pets of all sorts will do that.

Silver Mountain Water[1995] Tea, Blackcurrant, musk. Those notes stand out to me and the metallic/inky reference is there. It isn't macho, isn't bright and loud, but has a sophisticated subtle depth. It is a unique unisex fragrance that isn't for everyone, but deserves to be experienced. Thumbs up

100+ wear update: bottle is low; purchased Armaf Club de Nuit Sillage as a hopeful alternative and I am arriving at the conclusion that Armaf isn't quite the option I thought it would be. SMW just has a brighter, intricate, delicate, and more natural organic composition.

Now this is a 10/10 , just wow. The scent to me is a very airy clean and crisp musk and mandarin , i can kind of see what people mean by saying it has a “metallic vibe” [most likely musk] Its musk is very beautiful three dimensional musk , very airy , delicate, clean , and sophisticated .

To me SMW is all about the musk and mandarin , at first i get a blast of tasty citrusy mandarin , seconds later the musk joins it making this beautiful symphony. Neither note dominate the other , they work hand in hand just as their dancing together. Hours later when it Dries down , the mandarin is more subdued, the musk stays almost the same .

On me SMW is all about the intoxicating sillage , can't smell it directly on my hand , I can't force it to do its show , it's the master of the show , hours later [5-6] when i think it died , i get whiffs of it and continue to do the same for a long time . Rating : Scent : 10/10 [unique and very high quality, clones don't stand any chance] Sillage : 10/10 [this is the best sillage of a fragrance ever IMO] Projection : 8/10 projection lasts a very long time [5 hours later i get a compliment] Longivity: 9/10 [at least 8+]

Creed Meh

Its bland. Its got the same base as Original Santal, a combo of musk and "sandalwood" that gives it a fresh laundry feeling. They are like different scented dryer sheets. This is Normal, and OS is fruity. Its a Creed, and smells good. Fresh. They use good quality ingredients that do a good job sticking around. Just doesn't excite me. Neutral.

This is quite a challenging one for me because I love fresh scents and bergamot and mandarin feature among my favored notes. Having a freshie that would project nicely for me in winter would be a really nice addition to my shelf, but something about the green tea just doesn't agree with my skin.

For me, this scent projects super feminine, which is a shame because I love it on a tester, along with the idea, the inspiration and the overall composition.

Price, like with all Creeds, represents debatable value, but this is undoubtedly well crafted.

Neutral for me, but by all means worth a decant - if it works for you, this could be an interesting signature fragrance.

Neutral rating from me for Silver Mountain Water. I like the lion's share of notes in this except for the green tea. I don't like tea notes...they ruin an otherwise very nice fragrance for me because in the end all I can smell is the tea note in SMW.

So this is my story for SMW.

It was my third Creed and one night my Fiancè asked me to get my fragrances out. Out of probably 10 i had at the time she absolutely loved this and Pardon by Nasomatto. She just couldn't stop sniffing it and even started wearing it herself. . . Then a couple of days later i dropped my bottle and it shattered. I was gutted but got straight online and ordered another.

A week goes by and she goes to put it on again and instantly didn't like it and now she hasn't worn it since. She keeps saying it smells different everytime i wear it now. To me it also smelt different with more mandarin, tea but less musk and black current to my nose anyway.

So does SMW also suffer from batch variations? I can say Aventus certainly does as i own 4 bottles of different batches and they all have a uniqueness i like about them. I also own multi bottles of other Creeds but these are the only obvious ones to me thus far.

Im not fussed about batch variations too much but i haven't read too much into SMW having this issue. So i was more curious than anything!

Anyway i do really enjoy this fragrance but for me it seems weak and doesn't last as long as I'd like. Considering other than my Fiancè i haven't had a compliment and is hard to gather how it performs.

But i do adore this scent and that opening is just gorgeous to my nose and the dry down is very good too.

It would score higher if i felt it performed better.

7/10

A wonderful fragrance that is so popular that it's been copied and faked on various selling platforms. I bought a bottle of it in late 2003 and have loved it ever since.

To me anyways.. very clean, light, bright and super polished. Definitely unisex.

I walked into Creed Silver Mountain Water [1995] really wanting to hate it, because I kept seeing people talk about it being the "ck One [1994] for millionaires" and of all banal things, the subject of a particular YouTube reviewer calling it "how to steal someone's wife 101", which instantly put it into the "alphadudebro gonna be a stunner sick gains gotta get swole baller baller y'all" mentality, that Aventus [2010] has sadly also fallen into. But just like Aventus, I was pleasantly surprised that there was serious quality behind this, and originality that makes it very likeable to my nose. I totally understand why this draws in the typical over-privileged and under-disciplined dregs of toxic masculinity within corporate Western culture, as it is a real "stunner" as they'd say with sparkling fruity top notes and a crisp green finish that is more unisex than all the male collar-popping surrounding the fragrance may lead on. I get the reason this exists too, contrary to what Chad McAudiGym Esquire might think, as Creed after the initial 80's explosion from their own boutiques into high-end department stores began to market themselves as a cut above designers, not quite niche per se, just a "finer" option in the same stylistic vein as their "plebian" competition. Before they began re-writing their own backstory and jacking up prices to be the house you "graduate into", they really seemed to be trying to offer better takes on popular ideas, with this being their answer to the unisex craze of the 90's. Of course, having Pierre Bourdon's finest work at Olivier Creed's disposal for mere pennies on the dollar didn't hurt either, as this was an idea submitted to become L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme by Issey Miyake [1994], but obviously not chosen. Took a while for clone houses to catch up to this one too, but now respectable lower-cost options do indeed exist.

Silver Mountain Water opens with a gorgeous mandarin and bergamot; the top notes are nothing out of the ordinary for a fragrance made in this decade, but smell extraordinarily natural for what they are nonetheless, offering first glimpse of "better than the rest" I feel Creed was going for at the time, before the idea of being an aspirational house sank in too much with the marketing team. Quickly the juicy blackcurrant joins the already-sweet mandarin, and I'm surprised so many chauvinist guys actually like something this fruity and feminine. There's a green tea note here which mimics the popular Calvin Klein creation from the prior year, and sort of also sets the standard for the later Bvlgari scents which also depended heavily on either green or black teas. The development is just the right amount of aromatic to keep it gender-neutral after the flamboyant top settles down, and the dry sandalwood begins bridging this development of top and middle to the trademark Creed ambergris base. We find such a base also decorated with petitgrain, galbanum, and a synthetic white musk note which apparently even Creed wasn't above using in the 90's, which is okay because it works within the "fresh and fruity green citrus" theme of the airy verdant mountainside captured in aroma. Sillage can be a monster with this, as it is so piercingly sharp after the sweetness dies down, thanks to petitgrain and galbanum being base notes instead of top notes, so be easy on the trigger and make note that this has respectable winter legs for a freshie. Despite the lofty makings, Silver Mountain Water feels very casual to me, and not at all like something you'd wear only in high society, which is counter to the personality of a lot of other Creeds [including Aventus], so it's dare I say.. actually approachable from a house that doesn't usually like being seen as such.

Creed used to not be unilateral on their pricing before Blackrock took over, using popularity as justification for markup, and since this one is not quite as popular as its biggest money makers [but also not the most obscure], you could once get in the door for much less than many of the top-selling Creeds. Sadly, this is no longer the case with Silver Mountain Water. Still, this one will cost uncomfortable amounts of cash for folks used to designers or discounter sales, meaning it isn't a blind buy despite my praise, so sample if you can or buy a decant from the many sellers who offer splits. Silver Mountain Water is an extremely unique and high-quality unisex fragrance, but only under the condition that you enjoy fruity smells, with a lot of citrus zing and green fizz, as the sandalwood here is just a faint wisp of a base note, and like the ambergris, appears only at the end when this is a skin scent. Sure, there are many other fruity 90's scents both masculine, feminine, and even unisex, and you could easily have a wardrobe of a half-dozen such scents for the price of this one, but if you really wanted just one, this isn't a bad choice if you're not feeling any Creed sticker shock. For collectors and enthusiasts who usually spend considerable coin on perfume anyway, this might be worth a look as one of the not-so-overexposed entries from the house, and Silver Mountain Water is one of my favorite 90's Creeds thus far, regardless of how basic the bros who also like it might be. If nothing else, this is at least worth a sniff for somebody desiring a freshie that is a cut above, and if you like this, you might also want to check out it's sequel, Virgin Island Water [2007], which takes this theme in a different direction. I can't guarantee how well Silver Mountain Water will help you with spouse stealing, but have fun trying, just don't come crying to me if you get hurt. Thumbs up

When I first tried SMW a few years back I liked it but wasn't blown away.

Fast forward a couple of years and boy has my opinion changed......

SWM to my nose is quite an abstract piece. There are several fragrances that smell similar today but at the time this was different and almost a bit "out there". There is a fresh safeness to it but also some other worldly qualities. I've heard another review mention that it has a Sci-Fi quality to it. I firmly agree with this statement.

So on the initial blast you get this fruity/musky/icy blast. Then comes the metallic note. It's a kind of cold metallic. Everything about this fragrance is cold. Freezing cold. It radiates clean. There are some tea notes and the blackcurrant note is sublime.

Longevity is very good on my skin. It can do a disappearing act after a couple of hours only to reappear later in the day. I wouldn't advise over spraying as it can become quite cloying.

In conclusion what you get with SMW is a fragrance that will stand out from the crowd while at the same time not overwhelming others around you. Generally garners compliments.

Thumbs up because this is overall a beautiful scent. As a man, I would much prefer it on a woman, though. The origin of my appreciation for it probably comes from the fact that it smells so generally delicious that I can bear wearing it myself despite the clear femininity of it.

I don't think of a silver mountain or the water on that mountain when I wear this. This cologne is more grounded, reminiscent of a vineyard [the black currant maybe], a cup of tea [the green tea notes], but not an airy, pure mountain. These two notes keep it from reminding me of the cold, mountain water. It does have a fresh quality that is uplifting, but quickly subdued by the deeper, most likely feminine aspects.

boozy black tea.

I don't mind it.

Good performance for me.

8.5/10

Meh. I'm one of the "old" guys, I guess on this forum I guess. One after another, these "fresh" fragrances leave me cold. I wouldn't run in the other direction if someone were wearing this: I probably wouldn't notice anything special or awful. The name of this fragrance, Silver Mountain Water, must have come first because it seems the fragrance was built around the name. Apparently, whoever designed this fragrance imagined that "silvery" mountain water would smell like lemons and aluminum foil. Too astringent for me. Smells like the house after the housekeeper has cleaned it. Note: visit the Rockies, Alps, Himalayas and Sierra Nevadas if you're remotely interested in knowing what silver mountain water actually smells like. That, or change the name to Aluminum Mountain Water. Smelling this hurts my molars.

This was

2 terrible blind-buy.

Upon first sniff, I was certain I had a fake. So I bought a couple samples from different sources... same juice. So I got my hands on an NM tester... same juice.

Like with OS, I had to ask myself: What self-respecting house puts out something that smells like this, asking the prices they ask? Answer: there is none. Doubts grew, but not self-doubt. Kept OV but the rest went away and I climbed out the rabbit hole.

Beware when the rah rah boys turn up the volume. Be very aware!

this stuff is amazing. you can smell the quality at first sniff. must have in your collection!!!

Silver Mountain Water-surprised that more reviews don't touch upon the industrial cleaner / chemical blast / laundry detergent / shampoo vibe this throws out until the drydown. Considering the challenging and difficult scents that have been referenced in these hallowed hyper texts the cdg's, the nasomattos, the tauer's-I suspect it's just creed's branding that causes many to sidestep this very apparent and obvious facet of this scent. Silver Mountain Water is a sci-fi fresh male fragrance that evokes nature by means of referencing natural tones [peppered mandarin oranges, black currant, tea, down to the sandalwood/petitgrain base] without smelling natural at all - I agree with other reviewers that soapiness is not on the menu here but shampoo and conditioner and fabric softener are. I get all those natural notes-but the overall impression is one of a very synthetic, chemical potion all the way until deep in the dry down.

Unlike many others I don't have an issue with synthetic-just surprised no one has touched upon this as a breakthrough avant garde scent in the vein of other houses I've mentioned up top.

SMW does not fit the profile of something I would normally like. I like woody and spicy and overtly masculine, and generally detest floral, feminine perfumes on myself or on other men. That said, I do like SMW and wear it often. SMW has been adequately described in other reviews here, so I won't rehash old territory, except to say that it does lean slightly to the feminine side of neutral. My wife wears it and I got her her own bottle so she'd stop hitting mine, and it smells great on her. It is truly unisex. It is also very floral, which is not generally my thing, but somehow those "inky" or "metallic" notes that others complain about work for me. Those notes temper the floral notes and produce something more interesting and wearable on my skin. I don't understand why some people adore Aventus and hate SMW. To me, SMW seems like the more interesting [though less masculine] fragrance; maybe it's just the gender aspect that rubs people the wrong way. I find longevity and projection very Aventus-like, 2-3 hours of "wow I can really smell it" followed by a few more hours of grinding my nose into my wrist to see if I can still smell it, followed by nothing. I give it an 8.5 out of 10. On my skin I consider it a peer of Aventus and ranking only below Royal Oud as my preferred Creed scent.

What does Creed's Silver Mountain Water smell like?

Citrus & Rich A cool, clean and mentholated fragrance, Silver Mountain Water is reminiscent of sparkling icy streams coursing through the snow-capped Swiss Alps.

Is Creed Silver Mountain Water feminine?

The Creed Silver Mountain Water is a unisex Eau de Parfume, which was launched in 1995 and was created by Olivier Creed Sixth Generation.

Is Creed Silver Mountain water for her or him?

A contemporary unisex scent, Silver Mountain Water.

Who wore Silver Mountain Water?

Silver Mountain Water – was David Bowie's trademark, a perfume he always carried with him. Jennifer Lopez is also a fan. Fleurissimo – was made especially for Grace Kelly when she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco.