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Why the cold reception for Davidoff Hot Water?

post #1 of 18
9/26/10 at 8:02pm
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Hey guys:

Finally got to sample this one today. I was actually quite happy with the way this one smelled. It not only smelled good, it didn't smell like a lot of other things that I've been sampling lately. I actually thought it was spicy enough to deserve a hot water namesake. Maybe not jalopena pepper hot, but more of a hot cinnamon hot.

So anyway, I've smelled a lot of things, and I don't know if hot water really reminds me of anything else. I see a lot of reviewers drawing comparisons to Joop! products. Maybe they have a point, since my exposure to Joop! frags is quite limited. So anyway, is this stuff really deserving of its horrendous basenoter score, or is this maybe one of the better recent designer releases?
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post #2 of 18
9/26/10 at 8:09pm
Clever title.

It's not a terrible scent, but to my nose there's simply nothing about Hot Water that's interesting. It smells like every other generic sweet woody "oriental" for men riding the wave of Armani Code (which is better). If you like it, great, but I'd be hard-pressed to find anything unique, or particularly well-done, about it.
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post #3 of 18
9/26/10 at 8:26pm
I'm in total agreement with subhuman85. Its not so much that it's terrible. Its just that it provides no motivation for its creation or existence. I don't find any reason to buy it or even want to smell it again.
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post #4 of 18
9/26/10 at 8:37pm
The scent is OK, it's the name that's terrible
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post #5 of 18
9/27/10 at 2:06am
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Originally Posted by subhuman85 View Post

Clever title.

It's not a terrible scent, but to my nose there's simply nothing about Hot Water that's interesting. It smells like every other generic sweet woody "oriental" for men riding the wave of Armani Code (which is better). If you like it, great, but I'd be hard-pressed to find anything unique, or particularly well-done, about it.

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Originally Posted by timkm1 View Post

I'm in total agreement with subhuman85. Its not so much that it's terrible. Its just that it provides no motivation for its creation or existence. I don't find any reason to buy it or even want to smell it again.

Ditto.
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post #6 of 18
9/27/10 at 2:12am
Very generic, uninteresting and weak scent. It looks and smells cheap to me.
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post #7 of 18
9/27/10 at 4:39am
It's a fine scent but nothing out of the ordinary.
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post #8 of 18
9/27/10 at 5:15am
Davidoff hasn't really done anything in a long time.....This is not easy to find either and that doesn't help.....Gary
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post #9 of 18
9/27/10 at 5:42am
It pissed me off that Davidoff totally blew away their chance to capitalize on the "cold water" saga bringing something good to the market, with a successful predecessor such as Cool Water a little more "work" could have been in good place.

I mean, I was excited when I read Hot Water was being created and finally released but when I tried it ...I simply could not understand how in the world they came up with something so boring and generic. It is quite insulting how little effort designers houses are putting into their fragrance creations and Hot Water is a good example so is Bleu, Aramis cold blend and a gazillion other 2010 new releases.
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post #10 of 18
9/27/10 at 5:47am
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The scent itself is really not bad, it is appealing but not inspiring at all.
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post #11 of 18
9/27/10 at 5:48am
Didn`t saw anything wrong with Hot Water, but didn`t saw anything good either. When I tried it, this one reminded me of a scent from the brazilian brand called O Boticario. It is Quasar Fire, which was launched years before Hot Water. The irony is that the original Quasar is a copy of Cool Water, and now the Hot Water is very close to the flanker of Quasar that came before.
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post #12 of 18
9/27/10 at 5:50am
I stumbled on this Friday evening and tried it.

What struck me is that there is some accord that I find in the drydown that I find in other inexpensive scents. Or rather, only in expensive scents. I am not sure what it is.

I did not like it much, but I wouldn't say I hated it.
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post #13 of 18
9/27/10 at 8:21am
For lack of better description, it comes across like a 'hollowed out' version of Xeryus Rouge. Quite a synthetic mess imo.
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post #14 of 18
9/27/10 at 11:59am
I liked the comparison to Xeryus Rouge.

Being Cool Water's cousin,did not help at all.The bar was set too high...
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post #15 of 18
9/27/10 at 12:37pm
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Ah Xeryus Rouge...my love, so unique, so not worn by everyone
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post #16 of 18
9/27/10 at 1:03pm
it's kind of like a classier, quiter, less obnoxious version of Paco Rabanne's 1 million. And somewhat similar to Armani Code stylistically as others noted. These scents have a certain synthetic abrasive quality too high in concentration for my taste, as well as a type of "gummy" fruitiness I'm not all that keen on either. I would recommend it to those who found 1 million too sweet, but otherwise liked it.
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post #17 of 18
9/27/10 at 7:55pm
Indeed very synthetic smelling.. a chemical catastrophe. This to me, is even too chemical for Davidoff, this is something that a house like Claiborne or Hugo would produce.
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post #18 of 18
2/7/13 at 11:58am
no longevity. very lame. in the same class as rsvp by kenneth cole
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