Reviews of Cool Water (1988)
by Davidoff

Does anybody really need another review of Cool Water? Beats me, but here are my two (s)cents:

Yes, it smells a lot like Green Irish Tweed, especially for the first half hour or so. And yes, it smells a little bit more obviously chemical. It's a relatively linear scent on me, and the drydown does not arrive at the familiar Creed Millesime base.

It's pleasant enough, if somewhat cheap smelling, but what works against it most is that it's over-used and too often imitated. In all fairness I should forgive Cool Water for spawning so many inane progeny, but I'm not sure that I'm a big enough person.

I think the opening is an overdose of rosemary, and it seems linear to me..

Forever a modern Classic.
IDC if it was a copy.

If anything, I'd like the OG Cool Water with a heavier dose of leafy mint.

I enjoy the smell. I don't enjoy the hype. I don't enjoy all the negative talk about it on the boards. I never wore this but I distinctly remembering people who did but I never knew what they were wearing.

This is fresh and fruity and smooth like one of those frozen smoothies but with extra milk. At first it wasn't nice at all but later I liked it. If you've read about all the hype i.e. the many fragrances that are copies of Cool Water, you might not like the original.

It's good but uninspiring.

The assertion “when you don’t know what to wear – your choice is Cool Water” is absolutely correct and I’m the best example. It’s amazing how fast I almost expended my 75 ml bottle of Cool Water. Maybe it means that I am pretty indecisive.
Cool Water is a hyper-synthetic scent. One of my female associates is an artificial blonde. She has artificial eyelashes, silicon lips and breasts. Her behavior is a school example for the snobbishness. She said to me one day (I was wearing Cool Water): “Your scent is quite good”. I replied to her: “Oh yes, and it’s as natural as you are”. She didn’t understand, of course.
What’s the main note here? Maybe, this is the answer…
It’s usual in this part of the world that people put some lavender in their closets against the moths. When my mother smelt Cool Water on me she said: “If you ever stop using that scent, you should give it to me”. I asked her: “You like it? You want to wear it?”. She said: “Oh no, I’d put it in the closet, it’s very lavender-ish.” Naturally, Cool Water stayed her unfulfilled desire. However, since then, she sometimes ogles my bottle of Cool Water.

I like the initial scent that you get but after an hour it does seem to morph into something else. I wouldn't buy it again but since I have it, I will have to finish it. I don't seem to get any compliments with this one except from a few men, which isn't for whom I bought this for.

Not bad, but very generically watery. I can't think of anything that distinguishes it from a good aftershave.

fresh but not for the matures..
used it when i was in college and liked it but don think to use it again at my age...

this was a good perfume once. but it is too famous. and too soulless. a lot of people buy cool water if they haven't an idea what else to buy.
on my skin it smells exactly the same like on a piece of paper. it is not like a personal perfume that gives a personal touch on the skin. it has no personality for me.
sorry to say that, but 'cool water' is really 'out'. :-(

I used to wear this all the time whenever I was 16 years old because an old girlfriend of mine was in love with it. At first I really liked how it smelled on me, but after that relationship ended, so did my relationship with this cologne. However, I still have this cologne in my collection.

This was my first fragrance and to be fair it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be on this site. It's simple and sharp and I'd recommend it to young guys if it weren't so overexposed. Overall, it's pleasant, refreshingly cool/sharp, very masculine, safe and very very boring.

Well, I have been testing this, trying to like it.
It is by no means offensive but reminds me
too much of cotton candy. Not a bad frag, I'm sure works well with some people.

Well, I have never been around anything Creed, so I won't base my review off of GIT. I do think however Cool Water is a nice, fresh scent. Always a great sillage machine on me, and stays fresh.

It's old, most like by many's opinion "dated", but certainly not a bad fragrance in my opinion.

This was my first cologne. I really liked this in the store. Compared to all the fruity and flowery stuff I'd been smelling, this struck me as being piney and masculine. Once I got it home and started wearing it, I was a little dissapointed. I liked the smell as it went on, but it immediately morphed into a grapey smell and quickly faded into a flat papery smell. I did receive a couple compliments on this one, so at least other people enjoyed it. My dad was always commenting on it, so I wound up giving it to him. The 2005 Sun, sea, and surf version is better balanced and not quite as grapey.

This is one of the most common colognes out there. Now is it now one of the cheapest ones too. Never the less its still gives that refreshing aroma. Buy it if u want a tried and tested formula that probably one in 10 men have.

It's a rather standard, everyday scent. You'll never stand out in a good way... Most girls recognize it on the spot. For some that's a good thing (a lot of girls like Cool Water a lot), but you'll never have that "unique" scent that many girls will remember you by. If you buy this, be prepared to blend in with the masses.

This scent was somewhat groundbreaking at it's debut...but is somewhat unable to withstand the test of time...somewhat generic, although still a very pleasing scent, it fails to stand out from the Polos and hugo Bosses that were also considered to be on another level when they first came out...the scent it's self is best described as "Cool Water" it's kind of an afternoon or evening scent...those who wore this scent as a kid will be riminded of splashing it on after gym class or something...not a bad scent, but, nothing really sexy or unique about it...

This is the staple of an era. Where the 80’s had Drakkar and Polo, the 90’s had Cool Water. This has its home in the back seat of every sleazy teenager’s car. This was one of the fragrances that really kick started the marine/fresh fragrance market. This has, over time, become a pretty low class fragrance that is now, for some odd reason, synonymous with sleaze. It’s not a bad fragrance by any means, but it’s picked up a kind of stigma, if you will.