"Doesn't always give a positive result" - comedy gold Ash! As a married chap I know that therein lies a multitude of tales.... My own spouse's reactions to the colognes I wear range from "you smell like an old lady" (Grey Flannel) to a horrified and accusatory silence (Quorum)... It's the reason I keep buying new ones. I'm not interested in compliments from anyone else but my wife because she never gives them! Joking aside, as a gent living on a shoe string - very much appreciate the reviews you give of affordable fragrances - salute!

@saulgoo2334

3 ай бұрын

My wife loooves Agua Brava on me. It’s very inexpensive too. It’s different from what anyone else you know is wearing. It has some culinary herb and forest vibes. Very fresh and inoffensive

I haven't worn Cool Water in years! Your video (this one) made me break out my bottle just to envelope myself in its classic olfactory brilliance!

@TheChapsGuide

Ай бұрын

Wonderful!

I love your fragrance reviews so much more than everything else on KZread

Excellent review! Simple as that!

Great review!!! My favorite cologne 💙

Great review, Ash. I must try this fragrance now.

Just got my first bottle and I must say I'm very impressed with the scent it gives off. A very light but useful fragrance during the Spring/Summer Months 👍

Good review. Very informative.

Good review. I get at least 7 to 8 hrs on clothes and maybe 4 or 5 on skin. Perfect spring/summer timeless classic.

Ash, i still occassionaly use 007 circa AD 1976. Just my style. I don't recommend this to any one else, but it's my goofy way. My wife always said i was an Austin Powers kind of guy.

Ive read the very same Perfumer that Did This Cool water also did GIT three years earlier. P Bourdon. I have Cool Water and love it actually

Great review Ash! I find it especially interesting that while cool water and GIT share much of the same DNA, one is marketed as ‘the king of spring’, while the other is perhaps the quintessential ‘blue’ summer beach fragrance. Such is the power of advertising in our collective consciousness. Keep up these affordable scent reviews! Lalique’s encore noir could be another fantastic edition!

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

I quite fancy that scent - I'll look it up. Thanks for the tip.

blast from the past! May have to see if its changed over the years. Currently use Tom Ford Amalfi, Polo 4 an CK1

Hello Ash, this one was interesting. My wife gave me a bottle for Christmas. Never used it before as I tend to go for the Sandalwood, Vanilla style colognes, rather than the lemony fresh type. But as you say, pack those away for a while, this is summer in a bottle and just right. Start the day closely shaved with a fresh white linen shirt and it just sets things off for me.

used cool water from 1995-2021 and I finally started exploring alternatives. over 50 frags later…😅 I still have the bottle my wife gave me for Christmas but it smells nothing like my older bottles. very synthetic

I love cool waters it's such a refreshing smell .... And the original Paul walker advert was on all the time back in the day ... And I think with its price point and it's a good introduction for your teenage son just getting into after shave and smelling nice

@CaldonianDude

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, good memories. RIP Pablo... :(

Nice to see a review of Cool Water. It's been my pick up and go fragrance for years. Call me a savage, but I sometimes use it in the Winter too... ;)

@TheChapsGuide

6 ай бұрын

You are a savage sir. Seek help.

Great review! As you know Cool Water is my go-to Summer fragrance. Like you said, it’s commonly mistaken for Creed Green Irish Tweed and I don’t correct them. First Rate job, my friend!

@alamore5084

3 жыл бұрын

Agree, it's a very good fragrance, punches well above it's weight.

What a great review! As you said, Cool Water is an easy-to-wear fragance which will please nearly everyone. Being myself an hispanic chap, I would suggest you to try during the summertime the classic Carolina Herrera For Men eau de toilette and Álvarez Gómez Barbería eau de parfum. Both are light, citric and very summery fragances.

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip. I'll look it up.

My first ever cologne and aftershave. Heck, if I could find the aftershave, I'd likely still wear it.

Thanks a lot for the great review! To my shame, I did not know that Mr. Davidoff was born in Ukraine and in the same region where I was born 🇺🇦🇬🇧✌️

Great review. I have been considering getting this fragrance from Amazon in the USA. It's very affordable. I got Tres Nuit recently that is supposed to be very similar and is also very affordable. To be honest though I am considering just springing for the Green Irish Tweed and calling it good!

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

GIT is still the most unique of the fragrances we have mentioned, I think it is a little for 'sharp', which gives it the edge. But at £265 it is such a huge cost for a scent. That equates to a nice blazer in my book. But if you have that sort of loose cash - go for it!!

I have around 40 fragrances and this is probably my favourite out of the lot. It’s so clean and fresh and easy to wear, I will always have a bottle of this. The Coolwater Intense it nice too.

@daleknut1

3 жыл бұрын

I too have been carrying this in my collection, one of the better ones

@gentlemangaz3651

3 жыл бұрын

@@daleknut1 its a brilliant fragrance. I love it after a shower and occasionally wear it for bed haha

@alamore5084

3 жыл бұрын

What is Cool Water Intense like? Is it the same smell as the standard but with more projection/ staying power? Or is it a different smell but similar projection? Thanks

@gentlemangaz3651

3 жыл бұрын

@@alamore5084 hi. I find it to be more sweeter and heavier. Its fresh but not as fresh as the original, i bought this as a blind buy and i am happy with but its very different to the original and i wouldnt buy it again once i finish the bottle.

@alamore5084

3 жыл бұрын

@@gentlemangaz3651 Thanks Gaz for this. I will follow your advice and stick with the original. Cheers!

Frank Zappa said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Likewise, a video about cologne is like radio about photography. But I trust your taste. Our stores are supposed to reopen this weekend. Maybe I'll take a trip downtown and ask about Davidoff.

the power of cool

Hello Ash. Davidoff Cool water will be on my shopping list. I have to say I enjoy your talks about the History of so many things you've brought up. A suggestion for you. I have tried a number of Molton Brown fragrances & shower gels. One fragrance in particular called Labdammun Dusk. I hope my spelling was correct. I've found Molton Brown items appealing. The staff in there stand alone shops are excellent. No hard selling, & very knowledgeable. Something different & I've been given free Testers.

Got a bottle recently - it's only OK. My go to summer fragrance is Versace Eau Fraiche.

I just started getting in to collecting fragrances again. I was always one or two at a time, my fiancé and I will go look at fragrances together, haha like a date.

In my youth I put some of this on and my uncle said "He's got the Davidoff Cool Water on, he's out for the ladies tonight". Happy Days!

My wife's favourite (for me to wear !). And I agree about the Creed fragrance. - very little difference (except for the remortgage required to smell of Green Irish Tweed). Just a quick question if I may, Ash - the music? I think I've heard it on the Tring Cobbler's channel too.

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

It's called 'walk through the park' - kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKlpy6-cdaiykdo.html

I very much enjoy cool water and it's one I keep in my collection. In fact you could say that colognes is a bit of an obsession as I must have over 50 bottles of various fragrances. Anything from CK One to a range of Tom Ford or Creed fragrances. Cool Water is still one of my go to summer fragrances though! If you have tried it Ash, my favourite fragrance is Tom Ford Sole Di Positano. It's a wonderful fresh scent that I think you'll like 👍🏻

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

I suffer the same affliction, although I do limit myself to cheaper colognes than the big hitters of Tom Ford and Creed. But it is a bit of sport to find a really great fragrance for a modest price.

@chrisbuer7980

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheChapsGuide oh I completely agree. Given the number I have, buying a Tom Ford tends to last me a very long time. I have also had a lot of success with Copycat fragrances. Very cheap and seem to very remarkably close to the real thing. Then throw in some fragrance like Cool Water and CK One and it's a nice blend of cheaper and more high end fragrances...but all that smell good!

To say I love Ash and he is a second father to me would be an understatement. Especially when your real father only talks about Iran (which is hilarious and fine I love him to death)

This was my first EDT after Cacharel when I was in the Miami Vice craze. I always liked it in summer and still do. However the new reformulation is simply a new fragrance and they should have changed the name maybe to New Water. If you can get your hands on a old one let us know your opinion. Cheers.

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

I'll keep an eye out for it.

Every time I smell this, I think if water had a smell....this would be it. I still ask myself, how the hell did they do that? 😂

I found Cool Water has a good fresh opening but unfortunately it eventually deteriorates to a sickly mossy / musky note. A shame, given the very pleasing start.

Remember getting little samples of this inside FHM magazine as a young lad and dreaming of what it would be like to afford a full bottle..

I just got my bottle and it's good not great IMO. Can't really complain though for the price 🤷‍♂️

Nice review, it's a classic. What's the story behind the pipe? Just a prop or do you use it?

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

Given to me as a gift some years ago, but I don't smoke , so now it lives as an occasional prop.

@LoremIpsum222

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheChapsGuide it looks nice nonetheless. I have a few myself and I try to pair them with my clothing of the day!

Ash - have to tried blending fragrances at all? It came be fun. My favourite is to blend Creed Aventus with Creed Virgin Island Water. Creates quite an amazing blended fragrance 👍🏻

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

I do enjoy a bit of blending from time to time, usually only summer fragrances, as I find the richer 'winter' scents become somewhat sickly when mixed. Cool Water is a excellent 'blender' as it is some easily combined with somewhat stronger scents.

@chrisbuer7980

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheChapsGuide Ash, a great point and yes I also only blend summer / lighter fragrances. I should add, have you ever tried Allure Homme Edition Blanche by Channel? It's a wonderful fragrance that I really think you'll like! Very distinctive and a lovely zesty summer scent 👍🏻

Do a review of the Tabac series. A classic from 1959. Fragrance:barbershop chique. 😉

@TheChapsGuide

3 жыл бұрын

I did a full review on Tabac some time ago, here is the video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nICrscqAot2ye5M.html

@bajen114

3 жыл бұрын

Ah! Will watch it tonight. 👍

I like to keep things simple. Quite literally the only fragrance I wear - my all time favorite. Cherry on the cake is the mother-in-law can be guaranteed to provide me with a bottle each year 🤗

Vosene?

What kind of pipe is that, Ash?

@TheChapsGuide

Ай бұрын

It's a prop sir

T O P

I don't get summer from this whatsoever- this is quintessential spring; mint rosemary herbs slight sweetness for the crisp spring. There's absolutely ZERO citrus used in this. Summer is for the citrus gems. It doesn't even smell aquatic; it smells like an indoor hotel pool. No ocean vibes. No salt. Cool indoor pool water swimming in minty rosemary. Very unique. At least the vintage cursive was - wouldn't bother with modern day.

Made even more famous in the 1990's by Snoop Dogg "I got the Johnson Baby Powder and Cool Water Cologne" -Lodi Dodi kzread.info/dash/bejne/fKep1amNfNq6fM4.html