Davidoff Cool Water Reborn Eau De Parfum
3.8
Overall
Accords
woody
aromatic
green
earthy
balsamic
Notes Pyramid
Top
Galbanum
Heart
Cedar
Base
Haitian Vetiver
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ As seemingly the first person here writing a review to have actually tried this fragrance, I can tell you, it’s better than fine. Sprayed lightly, it makes for a great inexpensive and versatile fragrance for work or school, amped up with a few more sprays you could wear it into the night on a date or clubbing.
- ✅ Great perfume! Simple, Masculine, decent performance love the bottle. Never used the OG Coolwater as I use Green Irish Tweed. This is a nice path and new direction. Definitely smells familiar but also different and new. For the price this is solid.
- ✅ Great perfume! Simple, Masculine, decent performance love the bottle. Never used the OG Coolwater as I use Green Irish Tweed. This is a nice path and new direction.
- ✅ thank god this has nothing common with any of the countless sauvage(-like) flankers and clones. davidoff plays his own league and yep, its a good one again. d&g intenso meets platinum, only a bit darker. very nice. 7/10
- ✅ Good for office, formal occasions, moderate performance on skin but good performance on cloths(7-8hrs) Opens very smooth and clean, opens a little sweet greenish citrusy, perfect for after shower fresh feeling smell.
- ✅ If you like Rasasi Hawas Ice or other Invictus Aqua-like fragrances, then you will certainly like Cool Water Reborn edp. The price is considerably less than Hawas Ice, and this fragrance is quite similar.
- ❌ The OG Cool Water Eau de Toilette managed to achieve something for itself. Not only did it offer a much more affordable route of getting a scent similar to Creed's $300 Green Irish Tweed, but it also was one of the fragrances that initiated the aquatic trend in perfumery. At least so it is said. Cool Water Reborn Eau de Parfum, on the other hand, does nothing to achieve not even 10% of what Cool Water EDT did. There also appears to be an eau de toilette concentration (Cool Water Reborn Eau de Toilette) which I haven't tried, nor will I bother, so don't expect a comparison between the EDT and EDP here. You shouldn't expect a complex composition with Cool Water Reborn EDP either, because it's quite simple and stale. The first thing that greets you is a very well-known synthetic sweetness with the typical bubblegum similarities that so many fragrances have shown and still do since Invictus EDT was released. It is then freshened up as the sweetness mellows down, leaving room for some gently piney galbanum show through, appending some green touches as well and a bitter/aromatic, sort of balsamic edge. But of course, nothing qualitative or actually expressive. The cedar joins to provide a whisper of dry, warm woodiness, but also somewhat oily, while the vetiver is barely there, trying its best to further intensify the woody edge with added earthiness. Doesn't manage to do much, though. And yeah, that's... pretty much it. No plot twists, no depth, no 'unexpected bang-for-your-buck gem'. Just another designer profile that doesn't dare to dive into uncharted territory. Performance was expectedly pretty disappointing here. It somehow managed to stretch longevity approximately to 5 hours, while projection was largely gone after the first 1-1.5 hours, within that first hour getting pretty gentle pushing power, apart from the first 10-15 minutes, of course. But versatility was unsurprisingly the strong suit of Cool Water Reborn EDP, as is with every other composition alike. This is made to be as wearable as possible, regardless of weather and regardless of occasion, although I certainly wouldn't see it fit for special events. For daily wear, the office, school, sports, that's where its birth might start making some sense. But even there, there's no need for this. The market is well beyond over-saturated with scent profiles such as this one - synthetic, sweet, some woody/fresh aspects. And to name this fragrance 'Reborn' as if it is doing something innovative is nothing more than a knee-slapper. It's not even that good of a value proposition, as it goes for around $50-$80 in most places, although if you search deep enough you might find it for a little over $20-$30. Regardless, Cool Water EDT goes for less overall, and it's also a better overall scent. So without a second's thought, I'd go for the better-established Cool Water EDT, for Cool Water Reborn EDP died at birth.
- ❌ The OG Cool Water Eau de Toilette managed to achieve something for itself. Not only did it offer a much more affordable route of getting a scent similar to Creed's $300 Green Irish Tweed, but it also was one of the fragrances that initiated the aquatic trend in perfumery. Cool Water Reborn Eau de Parfum, on the other hand, does nothing to achieve not even 10% of what Cool Water EDT did. ... You shouldn't expect a complex composition with Cool Water Reborn EDP either, because it's quite simple and stale.
