Agua de Loewe (2000)
by Loewe

somehow this was recommended by the sephora staff over issey miyake, versace EF and bond coney island. but anyways, i think the longevity definitely beats versace EF (my current summer scent) but smell-wise, i think this is a bit too citrusy. it kinda hurts my nose when i smelled it on the paper. and it's pretty linear too, just that the heavy citrus top note dies down enough to make the scent pleasant. comparative to the other 3, this is definitely the worst. but it's NOT bad.

21st May, 2011.

Lame copy of cK one is lame.

I feel like all of the reviews here are aimed at making other people buy this scent as a trick so others will be fooled into smelling worse than those that are in on the trick. By mearly saying that I could be ruining the trick. Perhaps I should be called, "the bit wrecker." I'll stop being cynical for a moment and explain.

This fragrance contains oodles of that extremely sharp note that's in cK one. I have a hard time dealing with it; it's off-putting and it almost hurts my trachea. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to it, but it's in ADL in abundance. Just like in cK one, there are citrus notes, but in ADL they are totally obscured by that brutal scent.

To my nose, this is the worst cK one clone to date.

"They should call it cK none or something."

Oh Chip.

29th September, 2010.

Invigoratingly fresh though not quite in the 'aquatic' sense. To my nose AGUA DE LOEWE is a lightly spiced floral musk composition with a sweet resinuous drydown to die for. Longevity may be average but when it smells this good, you won't find me complaining.

30th July, 2010.

Agua de Loewe opens with a strong, varied citrus accord that contains a streak of harsh aquatics. The citruses – yuzu, mandarin, and grapefruit – are excellent; the aquatic note supplies a certain amount of tension and contrast. The accord is enjoyable and refreshing and lasts well for a citrus accord. What happens after that varies with my experiences: sometimes I get a fruity accord, sometimes I get tea, sometimes I get a resinousness that could only be a variety of cedar. Always there is that sharp thin blade of aquatic note piercing through the opening and heart accords. The base I get is a soft white musk supported by a bit of amber, and sends very little sillage off my skin, but is an excellent, sweet skin scent.

This is a thoroughly enjoyable fragrance… I like it better than either L’Eau D’Issey or L’Eau par Kenzo both of which are somewhat similar to AdL, but AdL is more captivating and more wearable.

16th July, 2010.

By no stretch of the imagination is this an “aquatic” scent. Instead, after an unpleasantly sour, but mercifully short-lived top note, Agua de Loewe settles into a spiced orange and wood accord with a big warm musk that aligns it in very general terms with, of all things, Caron’s L’Anarchiste. The Loewe is a brighter, sweeter, and cooler composition than the Caron, less musky-woody and more fruity, but for a while I sense some real structural parallels. Agua de Loewe soon drifts into a more conventional – even generic - powdery, sweet amber drydown, but that first hour of musky citrus is a pleasure.

At no point is Agua de Loewe a loud scent, but it provides pleasant, light sillage while it lasts. Mind you, in my experience it doesn’t last all that long. By three or four hours after application it’s faded to a quiet powdery skin scent. I still think Olivier Cresp did good work here – I only wish he’d found a way to extend the happy effect into the base notes.

28th May, 2010.

Really very nice. Agua de Loewe is aquatic but not marine. Like L'Eau Par Kenzo, it starts with sparkling but soft green/citrus notes and bring to mind not the ocean but a gurgling mountain stream surrounded by wildflowers. When I first tried L'Eau Par Kenzo, I got the same exact image. I absolutely loved the smell but remember wishing for better longevity. Loewe has granted my wish.

4th May, 2010.