Cool Water Summer Fizz (2006)
by Davidoff

Opening (about 10-30 minutes): Smells like a sprite with added lemon. Fizz and all.

Heart (about 1-2 hours): Smells close to Green Irish Tweed's opening, interestingly enough. Much closer that the original Cool Water, noticeably synthetic but much less so that CW.

Drydown (about 1 hour): more of the same, except nearly imperceptibly close to the skin. You have to be no more than 1 inch away to detect it.


I'm surprised by the lack of longevity of this scent, especially on my skin which generally holds frangrances longer than most reviewers here. Thumbs up for the scent itself - much smoother than the original, but thumbs down for longevity. That said, at $20 for 125ml, you can afford to decant a bit into a sprayer to refresh yourself from time to time.

Dirty little secret alert - if you're going to be doing something that may cause this to wash away (e.g. swimming), you can wear this and tell people you're wearing Green Irish Tweed, but not have to actually waste your precious GIT. Spray liberally though, as this doesn't even come close to the projection of GIT.

11th April, 2011.

I like this fragrance very much but don't let the accord tree fool you, you can't feel the accords since the fragrance has 30-40 minutes longevity.

This is a great refresher for hot summer days, you will feel very good for half an hour, it would be super if it could have just some more longevity.

4th October, 2010.

I have never been a huge fan of the game changing, smash hit phenom that was the original Cool Water. Oh, I liked it enough when I got a whiff of it here and there (and in the mid-Nineties, that wasn't too hard) but I was never moved to wear it. The Nineties "fresh-acquatics" always struck me as too synthetic...a little too high-end dryer sheet.
I had no idea that Cool Water had spun off so many sequels (which I gather are called "flankers"). Not only that, the flankers are all similarly named and packaged and there are so many I can't be the only one who is confused. I also can't be the only one who thinks that there can't be much difference between any of them. That said, I was in Marshall's today and I found a bottle of Cool Water Summer Fizz. I tried it. And I really liked it! It was a fresh acquatic "lite" with strong citrus top-notes; especially lemon, which I love. But, as many have mentioned, almost no lasting power. Which made the discount price of $29.99 over-priced. But it's hard to find really good summertime scents, and this one, as I said, was good. Maybe I'll try to find it cheaper on line somewhere.

16th April, 2010.

Definately one of the better flankers of the Cool water line. Better IMHO than the original, in that it smells expensive. It is a mixture of Roger and Gallet Farina extra vielle and the original cool water, giving this concoction a very nice old school new school vibe. Longevity issues? spray like it is going out of style: I cured this problem with 12 sprays. It was worth it. I'd spray more in the heat of summer.

7th September, 2009.

Like so many summer fragrances, Cool Water Summer Fizz is a light citrus / herb fragrance. Bergamot, mandarin, lemon, mint, lavender, sage with a white musk base form the fragrance with the addition of a fizzy experience that doesn’t last very long. There seem to be no levels, just the total accord (minus to fizz after ten minutes) for the short run of the fragrance: Pleasant, uncomplicated, uninspired. The dry down has a lot of similarity to the drydown of regular Cool Water, but I think it is a touch smoother – not quite as sharp as the drydown of the original, but that doesn’t really matter because the whole run of the fragrance lasts about an hour. It’s actually a good fragrance, but its poor longevity earns it a neutral.

16th March, 2009.

Delicious! Very, very fresh and energetic, no sinthetics accords, very masculine. Decent longevity and sillage for a citrus scent on me. Highly recomended.

3rd November, 2008.