From the raindrop on a textile to the hydroalcoholic gel on our hands, understanding the spreading of fluid drops on various types of surfaces is a major issue. We are interested in this phenomenon in several situations. Firstly, we investigated the spontaneous spreading of a complex yield stress fluid (Carbopol gels) on a smooth hydrophilic surface. We have shown that, in this case, the final shape of the drop at the end of a spontaneous spreading on a hydrophilic surface no longer verifies the Young-Dupré law. The drop freezes in a final state, which no longer depends only on thermodynamic parameters but also on the initial size of the drop, its mechanical properties and the hydrodynamic boundary conditions. In a second part, we studied t...