01/06/2016
Hajuvana
13 Reviews
Hajuvana
Déjà vu!
When Calvin Klein released CK One in 1994, someone at the house of Creed wasn't sleeping, but instead came up with Silver Mountain Water merely a year after. I think Creed did a brilliant job in reinterpreting that enormously influential 'transparent' feel without imitating any specific accord. Instead they came up with a nice fruity-metallic tone of their own, which, like said, shares the overall feel but no detail in particular.
Choosing SMW over CK's One was always an easy choice for me. Unfortunately, choosing a bunch of other things over SMW wasn't difficult either, due to Creeds being whoppingly overpriced.
How does all this bring us to White Tag? I think it's fair to say that Zara has either commissioned a SMW clone or at least Puig, the manufacturer, provided them with one.
Is it an accurate clone? No, but it's close enough to be a good one and too damn close to be an accident.
White Tag works best if applied on skin and after the quickly evading salty-fizzy bergamot opening (not unlike Aqua Quorum's) you're gonna get a couple of hours' fun with fairly linear and surprisingly solid performance. Funny enough, every now and then I get whiffs that actually remind me of CK One. Even more so, if I've sprayed some on fabric. This is most likely due to some shared synthetic ingredient I can't quite put my nose on.
It's hard to give any artistic credit to Zara for releasing something like this, but nevertheless a good stunt from Puig - technically speaking, that is.
Choosing SMW over CK's One was always an easy choice for me. Unfortunately, choosing a bunch of other things over SMW wasn't difficult either, due to Creeds being whoppingly overpriced.
How does all this bring us to White Tag? I think it's fair to say that Zara has either commissioned a SMW clone or at least Puig, the manufacturer, provided them with one.
Is it an accurate clone? No, but it's close enough to be a good one and too damn close to be an accident.
White Tag works best if applied on skin and after the quickly evading salty-fizzy bergamot opening (not unlike Aqua Quorum's) you're gonna get a couple of hours' fun with fairly linear and surprisingly solid performance. Funny enough, every now and then I get whiffs that actually remind me of CK One. Even more so, if I've sprayed some on fabric. This is most likely due to some shared synthetic ingredient I can't quite put my nose on.
It's hard to give any artistic credit to Zara for releasing something like this, but nevertheless a good stunt from Puig - technically speaking, that is.
