Cool Water
Davidoff (1988)

So glad I didn’t blind-buy this. Reading the notes in it sounded good, but it was so fake smelling and boring. Maybe the reformulation ruined it, but this sad thing has been absolutely neutered. Nothing even remotely interesting.

After reading many of the other comments, apparently there's an original formula, and a "new/current" formula, and as usual in these cases, the original I read is the better one. That said, I've only smelled the "new" formula I guess, because I smelled it for the first time tonight, and don't like it so much.

In fact, I borderline hate it, but there's still something there that maybe I don't hate, so I gave it a Neutral rating. Perhaps it would grow on me in time, but I doubt I'll give it that chance, with all the other great scents out there to wear instead.

Also, to be fair, I'm basing my review only on the smell of the aftershave cream, which I applied to the top of my hand, but it was from a Davidoff Cool Water gift set at Sam's Club that had the aftershave cream, some other cream, and a bottle of the cologne, and of the 4 packages left, ALL of them had the bottle of cologne missing; I assume stolen, so I had no other choice, but I'm sure the cologne smells the same as the aftershave cream.

To me, this has a very sharp, "green", flowery but chemical-ly, cheap smell. Almost makes me nauseous in all honesty.

I generally like all men's colognes to some extent, but this one? I think I'll take a pass.

Very easy to wear! Clean, fresh, and aquatic. The bottle definitely matches the scent. A classic! I was lucky enough to come across a vendor who is selling brand new and sealed boxes of the original formula which comes across as more green and piney. Previously, I wore the updated Cool Water which is what we see being sold all over the place now.

Fragrances in general tend to die pretty quickly on me and this is no exception. Within an hour, I can't even smell it even if I sprayed it ten times on myself. That is my only complaint about this fragrance.

Other than that, it's totally safe. If I can't decide what to wear, this is usually what I'm grabbing.

If you don't like it, then you don't like it. Cool water could easily be sold at 5 times the price under a different name by a different house and it would fly off the shelves. A wonderful summer fragrance, has a happiness about it and makes me feel good. I first wore it in my teens, 30 years on and I still enjoy it.
It's had many comparisons to Green Irish Tweed for good reason. They are different but share a similar DNA . Cool Water can be picked at such a reasonable price that it's a no brainer to put one in your wash bag.

A strong, clean and long lasting scent, a classic. I kept on getting pleasant whiffs of this through out the day.

I've known Cool Water for.. let me think... over 25 years now and yes, it was different from what it is now. Apparently I had a chance to buy Green Irish Tweed occasionally and let me tell you a story...

Cool Water in 90's was stronger, less chemical to me than it is now. Right off the bat it was lush greennes, I felt mainly sea accord, lavender, mint and sandalwood. That's it. It was quite a lot similar to how GIT smells nowadays (to me and my nose). I've used plenty of bottles, it was one of my first real scents, I started using it when I was 15 (eventhough it didn't really fit me, I didn't care, I liked the smell). I went through... liters of it, no joke. And suddenly I got bored. I started bashing it.

I got a bottle this year. All the memories of youth... They're back! You know what? Yes, it's waaay different than GIT in... first few hours. In the drydown, the similarity is bigger than I've ever thought it can be. Now I can smell it.

Still, I think it's a good perfume. One of my spring and summer stables. Hopefully, from now on, for a long