Cool Water Reborn

Ooooh!!! Peppery opening, I love it! That must be the vetiver, sometimes vetiver smells peppery. This has like...no top notes whatsoever. No fresh citrus, or lighter aromatics, it just dives directly into plant-y peppery-ness. It develops beautifully, and it smells much more natural than it surely is. It's absolutely a realistic vetiver note...kind of grassy, a little earthy, but not overdone here at all. It never veers into a "dirty" smell. Smoky? Yes, slightly, though it's balanced perfectly. I have a rosemary bush right outside my door, and I smell it often. I cook with sprigs too, and I'm extremely familiar with the smell. This has 65% of a rosemary smell, but it's not as savory or foody as the actual plant. Rosemary actually has some woody qualities too, and so does this fragrance. But no...it isn't a kitchen herb scented fragrance, the rosemary just adds dimension. I haven't tried the original Cool Water, so I have no base of reference here...but this doesn't smell watery at all. It really should be in a deep green bottle. I just tested this tonight from my husband's stash of samples, and it's the last thing I expected to be moved by (moments like these are why I love this hobby), but this fragrance makes me feel both comforted and adventurous. In my mind, this is the ultimate thing to wear on a hiking trip with your wife or love interest. It's masculine, unrefined, but absolutely tasteful and classy. Appealing without being try-hard, and unique. Very easy on the nose, but far from boring. It, again, is like deep forest green, natural and beautiful.

I don't understand the low ratings in this one, and I'd consider myself a bit tough to please. You immediately get a nose-opening, fresh blast of greens and citruses, but wrapped around a blue invigorating vibe. It certainly comes off a bit mature and robust, in a good way, and also you'd think "smells like nature" after a few minutes. Can't go wrong with it especially for the price. Maybe ratings became low due to different expectations/flanker naming? That still shouldn't affect the scent as a standalone creation. If I could only keep one Cool Water, it'd be a toss up between this and the original. (I've had Parfum, Intense, and Grapefruit&Sage which is almost identical to intense). All of them smelled a bit "unfinished" to me, but certainly not this one. This scent has only gotten positive reactions from people around me too. So, hope you enjoy! 😎

Another brilliant fragrance from Davidoff. I cannot understand why this gets such pitiful reviews as I find it to be fantastic for what it is. The best way to describe this scent is a green twist on YSL Y Live (which happens to be one of my favourite fragrances). Definitely a synthetic scent but it's a very masculine, fresh and green scent which will garner lots of compliments from women. Performance is absolutely fantastic aswell as it lasts about 8hrs on my skin and projects heavily for the first 2/3hrs. Really impressed with how this performs. A great, versatile pickup for a brilliant price (£27 for 125ml). Even with a large collection it still has a place for me as it's an easy dumb reach that will garner compliments the majority of the times I wear it. Definitely worth a blind buy if you like the Invictus/YSL Y Live DNA.

Davidoff Cool Water Reborn... ...is a very herbal green scent and instead of calling it Cool Water they could have just called it "Deep Forest Reborn". It is a nice fresh scent and would be great on warmer days. It really has got nothing in common with the original release of Cool Water in the 80s and not even with the current Cool Water Formulation. In the far dry down you can smell the spicy vetyver element found in Davidoff Cool Water Perfume. I personally don't understand the low rating but it seems that way too many ppl are too engaged with syrupy sweet gourmand and niche fragrances that their noses aren't open for a herbal (galbanum) ,woody and grassy juice. If anyone is looking for a Davidoff Cool Water Original release smellalike fragrance (pre reformulation), should try Coty Aspen. It smells very very close.

$30 at TJ Maxx for a 4.2oz bottle, so based on that, the house and this is a flanker, I can honestly say it's worth it completely! I have Dylan Blue (my favorite blue) and this is more like Sauvage. I don't get the medicinal or a ton of greenness to it but I do get ambroxan, some rosemary as a tinge of green and a ton of Ambroxan! Solid 8/10. Since I don't have a Sauvage clone at the moment I'll keep it, better than Sauvage anyway. Cool Water Intense is the best IMHO, the OG is good too!