Silver Water & Birch

I don't know what it is about Silver Water and Birch but this is the first Cremo fragrance to get a genuine positive reaction. Today I wore it to work and sprayed it four times on skin, twice on my tank-top. Two girls that I work with (I am currently doing a summer camp) loved the smell twice though the first it smelt like their grandparents. I can't say I disagree that it smells good and perhaps if they got the oakmoss, it can smell like grandparents Cremo Silver Water and Birch is exactly what you'd think it is, it is a Silver Mountain Water. Silver Water opens with the most balanced open of the Silver clones I've smelt, the most balanced. Al-Rehab Silver is too metallic and has a very BO smelling oud like wood, Sun Java White Men is awesome but can be too inky at times. Silver Water opens with water of course, maybe a few citruses too. The mid is very much oakmoss. I tend to think it is synthetic rather than organic due to IFRA. The base is pretty much birch, but it is the least smokiest. Silver Water and Birch performs no better or worse than the other two Cremo fragrances I own, Bourbon and Oak and Spice and Black Vanilla. It is a moderate projecting fragrance that lasts for about six hours. I originally got the solid cologne which works great but it is a little on the slight side and later got the EDT after loving the scent at first smell (I had the bodywash but it lasts minutes.) Silver Water and Birch is a great spring, summer and fall casual scent. It works for occasions that you'd wear a polo. Casual meals, work or kicking it. If you want to go lighter and more subtle, use the solid cologne. Cremo Silver Water and Birch is EASILY my favorite of the three Cremo fragrances I've gotten my nose on. I think it is because it is the most dumb reach of the three. Bourbon and Oak is more bar ready while Spice and Black Vanilla is more date ready. Silver Water and Birch works in most situations. For this and the smell and positive reactions, I say Silver Water and Birch is an 8.2 out of 10.

To answer raymachengray's question: I have a box dated to 2018 (I keep all my fragrance boxes... Don't look at me like that...), batch code B90319/9093-3. The notes listed on the side are "iced spring water accord", oakmoss, and "sunwashed woods". Also, the blurb on the front of the box reads "A sparkling, aquatic dive into a mountain lake surrounded by cool moss and clean woods". It does sound from some reviews here that SW&B was reformulated at some point and the listed notes were changed to reflect that. I think I have the older formulation, though I've never tried a newer bottle so I can't say for sure. What I can say is this is a very pleasant fragrance, cool but more of a sweet cool rather than a sharp cool. It probably leans unisex. It gets compared to Creed Silver Mountain Water, and Cremo does seem to be inviting the comparison with the name and description. I've never tried SMW so I can't speak directly to the comparison. But if it's similar to a popular niche fragrance, with decent performance, for $20/100 ml it's a fantastic deal. Or at least, the old formulation was a great deal. Not sure if the newer formulation smells as good.

My local Rite Aid had 2 bottles of this stuff on the shelf for 6 months! I never bought one because I really enjoyed the barbershop vibe of Blue Cedar & Cypress which got me through Fall and Winter perfectly. Plus I wasn’t impressed initially by the Silver Water & Birch body wash i was able to sniff. However today,for Spring, I decided to switch up the vibe and take a chance. I bought one of the SWB bottles “blind” and wow was I blown away. At. home, I went back and bought the other bottle because there’s no way you can get this kind of quality for that price. And it probably won’t be around much longer. It has an amazingly calming and masculine vibe. Very similar to BCC that it feels mature and young at the same time. Sillage was big for first couple hours on my skin (3 sprays around my neck) 6 hours later, there’s a very pleasant wood/musk happening that promises a gentleman is in the room. I bought this blind and must say if you like the notes listed on the box (Lavender as the middle note not Oakmoss...) you’ll be satisfied with the scent. The wear is up to the wearer. For me, no disappointments.

For $22 full retail? It's really good. Fresh, clean scent. Nothing ground breaking or earth shattering but this is good enough to be an everyday wear during hot weather for most people. The "fragrance should at a minimum have the urine from a Algonquin pygmy monkey that has been drinking nothing but 12 year speyside single malt scotch for 40 days and nights, and the feces of a north bound Scandinavian albino hippopotamus; or else it is for peasants" crowd will likely hate it.

This scent is not meant for me, being female, but I used to use the shaving cream of this smell so I ended up buying the cologne just to have it on hand to smell whenever I wanted because it smells so nice. So it is in my 'perfume' collection just because the smells so good. I will get whiffs of it just to do it on occasion. It's such a nice clean smell that isn't overpowering. I wouldn't mind smelling this on a guy! It smells so good and is priced so reasonably!