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Green Irish Tweed or Cool Water? Which is a better scent?

Poll Results: Green Irish Tweed or Cool Water? Which is a better scent?

 
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    Green Irish Tweed
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    Cool Water
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post #1 of 86
6/12/08 at 4:45pm
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Which fragrance is better?

Creed Green Irish Tweed or Davidoff Cool Water?
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post #2 of 86
6/12/08 at 4:50pm
While I dislike both of them immensely, GIT wins in the quality department, hands down.
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post #3 of 86
6/12/08 at 4:55pm
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Originally Posted by Ruggles View Post

While I dislike both of them immensely, GIT wins in the quality department, hands down.

+1.....Pretty much how I feel as well.
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post #4 of 86
6/12/08 at 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by Ruggles View Post

While I dislike both of them immensely, GIT wins in the quality department, hands down.

Ditto
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post #5 of 86
6/12/08 at 5:26pm
GIT all the way!!!!
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post #6 of 86
6/12/08 at 5:54pm
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Cool Water is very good. GIT is better.
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post #7 of 86
6/12/08 at 6:15pm
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Cool Water is very good. GIT is better.

Agreed.
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post #8 of 86
6/12/08 at 6:43pm
Neither?!
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post #9 of 86
6/12/08 at 8:42pm
Its not even a contest. GIT wins by a very, very wide margin.
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post #10 of 86
6/12/08 at 8:50pm
I have owned and wore both. I believe Green Irish Tweed is the better scent.
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post #11 of 86
6/12/08 at 9:12pm
According to Turin, Cool Water is better. And as you know, Turin knows best. End of discussion.
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post #12 of 86
6/12/08 at 9:31pm
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Originally Posted by zztopp View Post

According to Turin, Cool Water is better. And as you know, Turin knows best. End of discussion.

Great persons may be wrong. Churchill: no sport. Turin: CW is better.
Nevertheless I keep them in high esteem.

For me CW is an immediate wash-off, whilst I have GIT and love it.
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post #13 of 86
6/12/08 at 9:34pm
Going against the tide, I prefer CW.
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post #14 of 86
6/13/08 at 2:12am
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Originally Posted by Ruggles View Post

While I dislike both of them immensely, GIT wins in the quality department, hands down.

+1 , agree
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post #15 of 86
6/13/08 at 2:13am
GIT hands down. I think Turin just gave CW 5 stars for its significance in perfume history and construction aspects irrelevant to the wearer, while GIT did not get 5 stars for being a Creed.

Turin on GIT: "truly great fragance" ""feels as good as it ever did" " "brilliantly imaginative accord of..." "Brilliant, legible, perfectly balanced, immediately recognizable"

Turin on CW: "rehashed [GIT] structure" "beautiful ... composition" "cheerful, abstract, cheap ... lethally effective" "`now let women wear it for a decade or two."

Which sounds better to you, brilliant and perfectly balanced or beautiful and cheap?
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post #16 of 86
6/13/08 at 4:32am
If Cool Water was at the same price as the Creed.. How many would purchase it?
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post #17 of 86
6/13/08 at 4:53am
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If Cool Water was at the same price as the Creed.. How many would purchase it?

Nobody would pay >$200 for CW. However, if GIT was $40 and sold in Macy's everyone and their mother would be wearing it.
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post #18 of 86
6/13/08 at 5:27am
Creed GIT over CW, no contest. CW smells synthetic and cheap, GIT smells refined, crisp, and rich.
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post #19 of 86
6/13/08 at 5:35am
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Originally Posted by samplermike View Post

Nobody would pay >$200 for CW. However, if GIT was $40 and sold in Macy's everyone and their mother would be wearing it.

I think that's why CW was invented. Everyone in the industry knew GIT had all the makings of a mass appeal fragrance.
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post #20 of 86
6/13/08 at 6:12am
I never realized the fragrances were even similar until I started reading some of the recent threads. I was considering purchasing GIT in the winter and then someone on here mentioned it smells like a urinal puck and when I went to try it, that's all I could smell from it. Now with all the discussions about CW and GIT, I reinvestigated and smelled CW and GIT. They are quite similar. GIT may be come off as being better blended and softer, but CW has a more dynamic and fresher appeal to it. GIT may have the appeal of being exclusive as well. So to counter what someone mentioned above, CW may be held in a higher esteem if it was retailing for over $100 and GIT may be considered the opposite if it was mass marketed.
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post #21 of 86
6/13/08 at 10:38am
I enjoy both but I think GIT is better.
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post #22 of 86
6/13/08 at 1:48pm
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Nobody would pay >$200 for CW. However, if GIT was $40 and sold in Macy's everyone and their mother would be wearing it.


Except me. I wouldn't wear GIT if Santa Claus gave me a bottle.
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post #23 of 86
6/13/08 at 3:00pm
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I threads. I was considering purchasing GIT in the winter and then someone on here mentioned it smells like a urinal puck and when I went to try it, that's all I could smell from it. .


And if someone told you not to think of Pink Elephants would you be able to get them quickly off your mind?
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post #24 of 86
6/15/08 at 7:09am
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Except me. I wouldn't wear GIT if Santa Claus gave me a bottle.

And I wouldn't wear Cool Water if you paid me...
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post #25 of 86
6/15/08 at 9:15am
I love both, but GIT's evolution sets it above CW, which is much more linear. GIT's middle and bottom are great.
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post #26 of 86
6/17/08 at 2:14pm
In my opinion, there is no question to this whatsoever. GIT is simply better quality by far and a far better scent. The drydown is the proof.. on me anyway.
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post #27 of 86
6/17/08 at 2:20pm
[QUOTE=Dennard;1241274]I enjoy both but I think GIT is better.[/QUOTE

Ditto.
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post #28 of 86
6/17/08 at 2:21pm
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I enjoy both but I think GIT is better.[/QUOTE

Ditto.

I messed up. I feel the same way.
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post #29 of 86
6/17/08 at 2:39pm
Go Banana!
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post #30 of 86
6/17/08 at 3:15pm
I started wearing GIT last year to work. Many of my co-workers have complimented me on it. Once, a stranger asked if I was wearing Coolwater. So clearly, there is some resemblance.

I initially bought both. I wear GIT a lot. I hardly ever wear Coolwater. To me, it's a GIT knockoff. 'Nuff said.
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post #31 of 86
6/17/08 at 3:35pm
Any, I don't like them. Too ozonic to me !
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post #32 of 86
6/17/08 at 4:43pm
I actually prefer Cool Water.
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post #33 of 86
4/18/09 at 6:02am
Cool Water hands down. I am tired with all this Creeds snobism.
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post #34 of 86
4/18/09 at 6:03am
Don't like both.. Cool Water is an expensive mineral water with a smell.. while GIT is not my style.. but quality though.
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post #35 of 86
4/18/09 at 6:07am
Ahhhh SamplerMike! The anti-everso. How I miss those days.

PS. Green Irish Tweed hands down.
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post #36 of 86
4/18/09 at 6:28am
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They both appeal to me and i use CW more often coz i can afford to, but much less with GIT coz its really ex here, quality-wise, GIT hands down..... think this is a repeated thread but heck
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post #37 of 86
4/18/09 at 6:42am
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Ahhhh SamplerMike! The anti-everso. How I miss those days.

I do too. Thee was a certain excitement - you never knew when a simple, innocent post would cause a rash of personal insults. Plus, if you were bored, you could also post an inflammatory comment about Creed in one of their posts and wait for the fireworks.

Sigh...it's been a while since we've had a thread locked. Maybe I'll start a new one titled "Fragrances are for losers."
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post #38 of 86
4/18/09 at 6:46am
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Originally Posted by zztopp View Post

According to Turin, Cool Water is better. And as you know, Turin knows best. End of discussion.

depends on point of view, sure CW is legendary, but GIT smells better, more refined scent for me
so if we judge smell, i vote for GIT
and if we add CW market boom in late 80s and 90s CW wins
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post #39 of 86
4/18/09 at 7:12am
GIT.................All the way
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post #40 of 86
4/18/09 at 7:34am
Was the whole issue ever resolved about both of these fragrances being made by the same nose? I seem to remember some huge dust-up about that issue.
I think this thread is hilarious.

-Slim
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post #41 of 86
4/18/09 at 8:20am
GIT is wayyyy overrated
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post #42 of 86
4/18/09 at 8:43am
Neither one does it for me. Both smell exactly the same. I don't care what anyone says. My father, who wore Cool Waters for years swears GIT has a significantly different smell. He says it is more "soothing" and he may have said classier. I think it's hogwash, personally. They both smell the same.
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post #43 of 86
4/18/09 at 9:08am
I think it's quite unfair to compare a mass market product to an expensive niche one. If Davidoff can charge as much as Greed, I'm sure CW would be much better than GIT. Budget wise, GIT cost nearly 5 times more than CW. So if you divide GIT quality to 5 then compare that 1/5 to CW the picture will be clearer and fairer. Not really a fan but I'm standing on CW's side this time.
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post #44 of 86
4/18/09 at 9:16am
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Neither one does it for me. Both smell exactly the same. I don't care what anyone says. My father, who wore Cool Waters for years swears GIT has a significantly different smell. He says it is more "soothing" and he may have said classier. I think it's hogwash, personally. They both smell the same.

I agree that they both smell the same. But it's like comparing a Big Mac to a world class burger. Sure they both taste like burgers but one is clearly better. For me it is highly evident that GIT uses far higher quality ingredients, and smells far more natural and smooth overall than the highly synthetic smelling Cool Water.
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post #45 of 86
4/18/09 at 9:26am
I find no similarities regarding both scents.
Even if I could convince my self that they are somehow similar I'd say
CW looks like a kid's hilarious attempt to mimic GIT.
I currently have both of them and CW whilst it is a good mainstream scent up till
this day, it's middle isn't as good as GIT. There something peculiar there, maybe the geranium note.

So, +1 for GIT here.
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post #46 of 86
4/18/09 at 10:13am
If you test these side by side, it is easy to discern the extra quality in Green Irish Tweed. One really has to extract Luca Turin and value for money from the equation, based solely on quality, it really is an easy choice.
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post #47 of 86
4/18/09 at 10:28am
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Originally Posted by jasonx View Post

Budget wise, GIT cost nearly 5 times more than CW. So if you divide GIT quality to 5 then compare that 1/5 to CW the picture will be clearer and fairer. Not really a fan but I'm standing on CW's side this time.

Unfotunately for your argument, the relationship between cost and added quality is by no means linear, in fact I would say it's decidedly convex.
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post #48 of 86
4/18/09 at 10:43am
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Originally Posted by samplermike View Post

Nobody would pay >$200 for CW. However, if GIT was $40 and sold in Macy's everyone and their mother would be wearing it.


And if GIT wasnt a Creed, there were way less people who would be paying the bucks..
Anyway, to me it CW, by a mile.
Smoother, more elegant and way longer lasting.
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post #49 of 86
4/18/09 at 10:46am
Can this poll ever end? The original author is banned and it started in June of '08.

(this is a real question, not me being a smart-aleck)
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post #50 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:09am
GIT wins in every aspect
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post #51 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:17am
GIT of course.

About the comparison... At some point over the last 3 years, an official Creed sample vial filled with Cool Water made it's way to me. I don't know where I got it or who originally filled it. All I know is that there are people out there sampling Cool Water, thinking it's GIT, and coming to the invalid conclusion that they are identical.

Anyone who says they are identical is simply wrong. I will fight with you for the rest of my life about this if I have to. They ARE different.
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post #52 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:20am
I can't believe it hasn't been said in 50 posts, what about Chez Bond?! A youthful take on GIT, with better longevity and sillage! Superior in my view, some may find it too sweet or feminine though.

GIT is superior to Cool Water though, especially the current versions with all the lavender thrown in.
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post #53 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by timaru View Post

And if GIT wasnt a Creed, there were way less people who would be paying the bucks..
Anyway, to me it CW, by a mile.
Smoother, more elegant and way longer lasting.

Smoother!? More elegant!? Are you getting your sources mixed up?
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post #54 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:34am
Cool Water is a way much better scent.

Way much better.


I like GIT as well, but Cool Water is miles away.
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post #55 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:53am
I like GIT much more, but the original Cool Water made some years ago was almost as good.
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post #56 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:57am
This is one of those threads which I must kick in my two scents. I discovered Green Irish Tweed in 2000, long before I became a Basenoter. It was due to the recommendation of the Neimans SA, which turned out to be an excellent choice. I found my receipt the other day and I paid $120 USD for a four ounce black flask. Ah, inflation!

Which is better? You must be joking! To my nose, GIT is FAR superior and exudes a very refined sense of class. It really was one of my first fragrance loves.

I sampled Cool Water once, and once was enough! I simply do not get the comparisons at all. Yes, they are similar fragrances, but where GIT exudes quality and class, Cool Water is horrific synthetic crap that I could not wait to wash off.

Best to Everyone,

TJ
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post #57 of 86
4/18/09 at 1:01pm
GIT is heaven in a bottle.

I wore Cool Water for years but there's no comparison.

I DO like the peppermint in the top of Cool Water, though. But on the whole, it's just way too synthetic.
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post #58 of 86
4/18/09 at 1:09pm
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According to Turin, Cool Water is better. And as you know, Turin knows best. End of discussion.

Yes, but Turin also hates Creed with a fiery passion, end of discussion
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post #59 of 86
4/18/09 at 7:25pm
Green Irish Tweed is the better scent.
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post #60 of 86
4/18/09 at 11:38pm
GIT all the way!
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