Cool Water Night Dive

This is my revised review of Davidoff's Cool Water Night Dive. Wow, what an amazing scent that I find is great, not over-powering and rather long lasting. I got this one blind from Kohl's for under $20 for a 1.7oz/50ml gift set. It was being clearenced out and I still had money on a Kohl's gift card so I figured that I would try and use it on this fragrance. I had chosen wisely with this one. It's not your run of the mill aquatic. Personally when people say "I hate aquatics, aquatics are bland and smell like any beach." If you have smelt aquatics, you might have smelt them all. Let's face it: Davidoff Cool Water (the original), Bath & Body Works Ocean, Guy Laroche Drakkar Essence, Bigelow Barbershop Elixir Blue, Ralph Lauren Polo Blue, etc. all kind of smell alike, and I honestly do like aquatics. This one, the flanker to Cool Water, Cool Water Night Dive however is much more. Mint, mixed fruits and berries and pepper make it different from most aquatic scents I've bought in the past and the aquatics that even most people have smelt. The mix of the classic Cool Water notes and the special notes specific or enhanced for this flanker, make it stand out scent wise in the aquatic category. This is also the rare night-time aquatic fragrance as most are mainly day scents. For though me, I find it even works in the day time. Seasonal wise it can last from about the end of winter, when the snow melts away in March, until about the time snow falls in November, giving you roughly a 10 month scent. That also the scent gives pretty decent sillage and a long about 6 to 8 hour window, long for both an aquatic and a mint based fragrance. Now for the weird confession part of this review, while I have of course smelt Cool Water during my fragrance journey, I never owned one of my own. Now that you are shocked, hear me out. This is because I have owned both Bath & Body Work's Ocean (my first-ever fragance) and Bigelow's Barbershop Elixir Blue (one I sold off) which smell close enough to the original. After buying this however, I just might buy he classic. Sadly though, I imagine that I will have high expectations that will be hard to lived up to based on this awesome flanker. I have to give it a 9 out 10. I came to this rating for its price, as even at my under $20 for the 1.7oz giftset, I STILL can get a 2.5oz for not much more. As I mentioned already, its smell is great, it is fairly versatile and the fact I can get a work day out of this cologne, even with mint make it a titan in its genre.

I LOVE THIS COLOGNE.....plain and simple. I have not smelled this original cool water unfortunately (I guess I owe it to myself to do so) but I came across this one day and said to myself..."why not?" The fragrance is advertised as being a cool aquatic which is partly true (it is cooling) but more in a richer greener-blue sense. The opening is a bit sharp and a bit sweet but quickly turns into a dark aromatic fruity musk. Just a touch of citrus thankfully. Getting a little tired of all those heavily citrus based freshies. There's just to many ways you can do fresh and I think all the aqua di gio rip offs have made their point. lol So being that this one is a flanker of the original that came out in 88, makes it beneficial in that it has somewhat of an old school feel to it and also its not as widely used as it was back in the 80's and 90's. So if you're a younger gentleman you would probably do very well with this. I also want to mention that this frag contains tobacco and black pepper notes which adds a nice sexy and masculine counter balance to the freshness and if anything would most likely make this the ideal night out on the town fragrance. Can also be used during the day for that matter, work or school, if you go easy on the trigger. I really owe it to myself to pick up the original to make a comparison but in all honestly you can't go wrong with this one! TWO THUMBS UP!!!! OH and to settle the old GIT comparison with Cool Water debate.........yes they are VERY similar. But in my very honest opinion GIT is a bit more of a richer, greener, darker scent with CWND being lighter and slightly more blue and a bit more synthetic especially in the dry down. But they are similar. Also as each scent progresses GIT maintains its natural rich feeling while CWND becomes more musky. Just my opinion but at the end of the day, to the common nose, those differences are gonna be hard to detect so be aware of that if you're gonna want to shell out 300 plus dollars on a bottle of GIT compared to as low as 20 dollars for this fragrance. Also keep in mind that this comparison is being made with this flanker not the original but the similarities are still relevant, to my nose. The dry down differences might very well be a product of this being a flanker.

I’ve got to say that the last serious purchase I’ve ever made from the Davidoff house was Hot Water, and you can imagine the disappointment I had after my purchase. There were no testers so it was a blind buy. Anyway, I seen this today for $20 bucks and from what I understand it’s now discontinued. The reviews were very positive so I went through with my blind buy. I’m glad this is isn’t anything like the now reformulated classic Cool Water. Folks, this juice is a dead ringer for Calvin Klein Encounter, minus the boozy notes, and just a little more fruity. In my opinion this is soft, subtle, and seductive scent that you can wear during an intimate encounter and you won’t drown out your date/partner and get kicked out of the bedroom and told to go and take a shower because they’re revolted by a scent that’s too strong. In all seriousness though, the tobacco in this is so beautiful and it’s far from overwhelming. This was a pleasant surprise for me and has taken the sour taste out of my mouth from Davidoffs Hot Water debacle purchase from years ago. This is Solid 8/10 for me but I have to give this a 6.5/10 overall because the performance isn’t the greatest. I oversprayed greatly just to achieve 2-3 hours tops, and that’s on a hot summer day, but just know when you’re wearing this you’ll get compliments. My GF was burying her face in my shirt and couldn’t get enough of this stuff.

What a shock, I have no idea how this could get such bad reviews. Well actually, yes, I do know I'm under 25 and when I read the note breakdown of this frag, I knew this would be beautiful, if Davidoff managed to pull it off right. Now I've smelt the original Cool Water before, didn't like it one bit. I got enticed to buy a gift set of the Night Dive at TJ Maxx for $40, crossed my fingers, and hoped for the best when I sprayed it on my wrist. Wow was I taken back. This stuff smells great and stays true to the note breakdown on here. Oh and performance is actually pretty good. I get about 6 hours longevity and long lasting/average sillage/projection respectively. I think this gets a bad wrap because of its dissimilarity to the original. This is almost completely different save for some spicy depth in the dry down. I would also say it suites young people (under 30) better, but is in no way, shape, or form feminine. For those still curious as to how this stuff smells: picture being in front of the ocean at night. A breeze blows a faint trace of fruits underpinned by a foundation of the ocean's abyss. The cashmeran compliments the dry down perfectly. Everything is blended well, and it smells very original. Great stuff, but I would only buy this at the $40 price point.

I just bought my third bottle of Cool Water Night Dive and I've been using it since last summer. Whenever I use it and a women gets into my area and smells the perfume, I get many compliments and I get asked what my perfume was. So i can tell you, that its attractive and this is confirmed by the words of nearly 30 women. I'm using it mostly when I'm at the lounge or the bar on the weekend in the summetime. I would recommend to use it just in the summetime or spring, because its a really fresh and a bit fruity perfume. I reminds me of the blue ocean, the beach and a mystic aura that surrounds the user. I'm always thinking of James Bond in "Casino Royale" when he goes to the casino in the beginning of the movie. Its a fresh and powerful perfume for the summertime and no doubt - You will be recognized by the women!