Davidoff launched Cool Water in 1988; Pierre Bourdon composed it. The house sees it as the starting point of the “new freshness”: the eau de toilette opens, it says, on peppermint and lavender, before a heart of oakmoss, geranium and sandalwood and a base of amber and musk. Its blue bottle was designed by Peter Schmidt.
Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez give it five stars and wager that no fragrance has been imitated more; AlbertCAN, at Perfume Shrine, finds it painted with broader brushstrokes than Green Irish Tweed, but signed by the same hand.
Olfastory’s review
Perfumes: The Guide, five stars
In 2008, Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez gave Cool Water five stars, classifying it among aromatic fougères. This beautiful 1988 composition, in their view, made Pierre Bourdon famous, and no fragrance, they wager, has been imitated more often.
Perfume Shrine, a marine sibling
On March 28, 2013, AlbertCAN, a guest writer at Perfume Shrine, compared Cool Water with Green Irish Tweed. He found the Creed gentler, less intrusive than its marine sibling; both diffuse well, but Cool Water offsets the freshness of calone with a more assertive base.
The Davidoff, he writes, is aimed at a more modest budget and painted with broader brushstrokes, but Bourdon’s signature is recognizable in both. Overdosing a novel material does not, in his view, erase the perfumer’s thinking.