Reviews of Cool Water (1988)
by Davidoff

Unequivocally cheap smelling and very synthetic. It (unfortunately) lasts forever on my skin, which is a whole new reason to complain about its lasting power.

At first I really enjoyed this frag but after years & years of smelling it on so many people I begain to grow tired of it. Thee initial blast is enough to blow king kong away & if over applied you can destroy Tokoyo! It is not a bad scent, however I have grown tired of this 1 & whish to have no memories of this plauge.

I had heard a lot good about this perfume and finally purchased it. Well...honestly, it didn't impress me at all. Middle and Base notes are cheap smelling and smells like I am sitting in an air-conditioned bus whose seat cushion are new and air has less Oxygen. I hate it as it makes my head heavy.

Although opening note is fresh but way too overpowering and always gives me a headache. Although I get some compliments wearing it....but for me....its totally thumbs down. For every day wear in summer.....I prefer Aqua Di Geo.....especially for office wear.

New at reviewing frags, bear with me please ...

There is a certain "class" of smells Cool Water represents, and while I cannot, nor wish, to define the individual components of it, I characterize it as: dark, metallic, sharp. Call it blue, call it purple (but not "cool water"). It reminds me of my Realm deodorant (and hence what the Realm line must in general smell like). Only, I prefer the Realm to the Cool Water, not to mention, Realm posesses the added (placeboic) benefits of human pheros. CW isnt bad after many hours on, but enduring the initial bulk of its not very coolness is beyond me. No, this stuff reminds me of department store smells--a quik trip to Bllomingdales or Macys for an 11th hour "solution" to pre-first date jitters.

Please put this thing out of its misery. Yes, it was unique, yes, it's a milestone in modern perfumery, but it's past its time (particularly when about 1500 other fragrances that smell like it have now been produced. Who knows, if Cool Water hadn't been around, none of these crappy copies would ever have been made). Plus, it gives me an headache like nothing else does.

Maybe this product was a "hall of famer" to the industry. Much like Blondie occupies a prominent position in the history of rap.

But I'm not going out an picking up any Blondie discs in the near, nor distant, future, nor would I buy this product unless I was curating for a perfume museum.

The product does not have an unpleasant smell. But neither does Brut or
British Sterling. I would rate the odor somewhere below Aqua Velva, which I consider to be a sort of Mendoza line in the world of fancy smells.

Unlike "Unforgivable", this product won't offend anyone if it is not overapplied.

If you want to end a meeting or a bad date very quickly, a few shots of Unforgivable will do the trick. You can't do that with Cool Water, so Unforgivable may actually have more utility due to its extreme antisocial properties.

(I apologize for the Unforgivable digression, but I tested it two days ago and I'm just now getting completely rid of the one vile blast to the wrist. That one blast survived two showers and a Macbethian + surgeon's scrubbing. Stock up on the tomato juice before pushing that button!)

Cool Water was a great concept for 1988, and if you're stuck in a late 80s time warp, then this stuff will be perfect for you. Enjoy.

I brought this fragrance blindly because many said this is a nice perfume. Well not for me! I thought the strong sandalwood base really makes me like an old man.

This is the fragrance everyone always gives as a gift. Are they "re-gifting?" In any case, this is a blatant ripoff of Creed's Green Irish Tweed, but much more artificial and cheap-smelling, at least to me. I like Davidoff's Good Life, but not this stuff.. and I always seem to get it as a present every year from various people. I then re-gift it to others who I assume wear it. It's not the cheapest-smelling fragrance, but it's very unoriginal and smells like chemicals as the day goes on. I would not recommend this to people who like the scent.. I would recommend Creed's Green Irish Tweed.. you can get a GIT tester on the internet for the same price as Cool Water... and without the odd smells that are brought out during the day. To me, this fragrance smells fine at first, but then changes into a stench later in the day--which has much sillage.. It starts to smell like Drakkar Noir or some other highschool cologne as the day goes on. Very cheaply made, I would bet.

The overall marine timbre in this fragrance is offputting to say the least. It's clean in a very synthetic sort of way, and decidedly something that smells more akin to a toilet cleaner than something I would wear.

The fascination with the ozone/aquatic/marine type of fragrances is lost on me, but this one is particularly unpleasant. Very one-dimensional, and a big thumbs down from me.

Really don't understand the popularity. All I can smell is celery. Yuck.

Generic, syntetic, blää.
benb

Cool Water comes in a nice bottle, packed in a nice blue box. On first whiff the opens notes reminds me of "Fruit Loops," or fruit flavored hard candy. If it were only a fragarance that smelled like "Fruit Loops," I might actually find Cool Water an amusing olfactory joke, and give it to a young adolscent niece or nephew if I had one. He or she might like it or have a friend that likes it.

In my opinion, Cool Water is just fragrance like Eternity that has the distinctive and unmistakable ozone like note of "synthetic fresh." In this case it is "bound" to a fake fruit scent. As hard as it may be for some of us to fathom, like consumers at large, some Basenoters actually like the dry down smell of "synthetic fresh," even greatly like it, but others like myself find "synthetic fresh," "cheap smelling," distracting, annoying, and disgusting, even to the point of causing headache and nausea.

As I have learned, one needs to just develop and trust one's own nose not trust the marketing hype, the best seller lists, and the recommendations of others and whenever possible, thoroughly "try before you buy."

My recommendation is to try it.

[Note to perfumers: I for one will avoid "synthethic fresh" like the plague because I find it repulsive.]

At first it seemed like a pretty decent fragrance, until I realised that it was the only perfume I had that I never wore out. Somehow, the "fresh" smell gives way to a detergent-like pungent smack in my face.

A bit like GIT but thats all in the first blast. After the scent settles down and starts to go to effect, everything that makes it like GIT goes away.

Hits and reeks hard of alcohol, doesn't last, and reeks artificial. A good cheap knockoff for maybe an hour but not worth the time if you're spending a night on the town. Spend the extra money on GIT and forget about this stuff.

Yes it's fresh and clean, but even now that it's dated too many wear it. It has an almost marine quality that I like - an ocean breeze sort of thing - but it's the kind of ocean breeze that a soap, candle, or air freshener company would sell. It most closely resembles Wings by Giorgio Beverly Hills (to me) but Wings pulled it off much better. Cool Water is an OK scent for the office maybe, and is probably OK to wear year-round day or night, but there is just nothing outstanding. Combine this with the fact that you will always remind her of SOMEONE in her past who used to wear this, just because it was so popular, and I'd have to say thumbs down.

davidoff originally produced cigars and then they moved into perfumes....can someone explain me this misbehavin´?Cool water is the worst perfume i ever smelled....Terrible!Yes it is fresh but what a freshness-disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!

This smells identical to GIT...for about an hour. Then it's gone, whereas GIT lasts and lasts. At least this is cheap.

I have no idea why but this reminds me of toilet bowl cleaner (no offense to any Davidoff lover out there). An overall unpleasant experience.

Terrible!!! An exact imitation of the worst Creed's, GIT. Cool Water and GIT dont have any difference to me - both are monotonous and one dimentional. the only advantage of GIT to Cool Water is its oldness. similar to carpet cleaners & shampoo, its foamy for me!. really doesn't have any special thing, utterly not recommended. I regret of buying it.

The top note is too strong for me. I just cannot stand the lavender smell in it. Furthermore 9 out of 10 guys must have used it.

Much too mass-markt and unimaginative. Tough i usually enjoy marine scents, this one rather alludes to very watered-down herbal tea, to antiseptic medicine. Besides the lasting power is very substandard and the allround impression is that of a neutral scent with nothing special about it- 99% of cheap supermarket smells are similar to this, only much better and more valu for money. Typical teenager scent, trying to be hip and conformistic at the expense of good taste and high quality. Besides, it tends to become, alongside with a few others, a cologne that so many people wear, that it becomes far too commonplace. Snobbish failure with agressive, but tastless marketing and undeserved succes.

The Baron de Charlus once told me: 'Hey, dude, that's Cool Water you're wearing! ... What the heck is G.I.T.? ... Prince Charles? ...Grumptious ...Flumptious ... Stop talking like a jerk! ... What the hey! ...Where the D? ...Tell me you're kidding me! ...Ah, yer fadder's mustache! ...Like a pigeon's muddy dream!'
I could make little sense of his ramblings and assumed that he had either been possessed by the ghost of a deceased American shoe salesman or had been imbibing too much absinthe - possible both.

very strange smell. There is a clearly distuingishable note in all cool water product line which I can´t absolutely stand

Smells cheap and booring, I will always hate Cool Water for ripping off Creeds "Green Irish Tweed".

Like other reviewers have said save some money and get Green Irish Tweed it will be well worth it, Cool Water is the cheap supermarket Cola, where Green Irish Tweed is the real Coca Cola, nothing beats the real thing.

After trying GIT and comparing the quality between GIT and cool water it is an obvious gap. If you like cool water, save some money and upgrade to GIT. I feel anyone that had the attention to detail from their scent choices, that came to this site and actually did research will find GIT more to there liking.

If you're 15 and going to a school dance, you can be forgiven for spraying this on. As for Wham! and Duran Duran in the 80s, decent packaging and clever marketing did the trick. It's not bad, but there's not an inch of refinement in it. Bland and dull.

I like many of the notes in this scent, but something in the composition just doesn't do it for me. Nine times out of ten I want to remove it as soon as it's applied. I don't know why, but the other one time in ten it's okay, but not great. If I were going to wear a scent of this type, I'd choose Wings instead.

Although I may be in the minority, I find this scent totally undistiguished. The notes seem flat and synthetic.
And what's the connection with the name? This fragrance is neither cool nor aquatic. But the ads certainly propelled this into the minds of a number of people and it became immensely popular. While Green Irish Tweed is not my favourite scent, it is what Cool Water would - and should - be if artistry was involved. When you are charging as much as Davidoff is for this scent, you should at least give your clients a decent product. (And perhaps spend a little more time on the juice than the adverisments.)