Cool Water

Coty describes a minimalist composition, driven by bold overdoses. The house pairs an aromatic lavender with a shivering mint; in the base, amber coats the fragrance with sensuality and intensity and makes it, it says, even more addictive.

In the list it publishes, peppermint and lavender burst forth at the top like a swell. The heart gains strength with oakmoss, geranium and sandalwood; the base glides into a warm flow of amber and musk.

Its website illustrates this description with three materials: lavender, a marine accord and amber. The marine accord does not appear as a note; the house speaks of an alchemy between a man and the ocean.

What the reviews say

For AlbertCAN, a guest writer at Perfume Shrine in March 2013, Pierre Bourdon took up in Cool Water the framework of Green Irish Tweed, composed, in his account, for Creed three years earlier, and added calone, a molecule with a marine effect.

Calone is not, in his eyes, the key to the fragrance, as its resemblance to the Creed shows. Cool Water balances its freshness with a more assertive base; Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez classify it among aromatic fougères.

What is left out

An earlier text from the house mentioned a Provençal accord of lavender, rosemary and mint, a heart of jasmine, geranium and sandalwood, and a base of musk and ambergris.

Perfume Intelligence classifies it as a floral, fruity masculine fougère, and also cites bergamot, orange blossom, chervil, orris, violet, cedar, juniper and coriander. The house’s current list retains neither rosemary nor jasmine, nor any of these materials.