Ice Cool Cologne

Ice Blue

4711 2008

Ice Cool Cologne may be fresh, but for me, it is rather a lukewarm candidate in this spectrum.
I find it far too flat, and unfortunately, the pharmacy comes to mind when I apply the scent.

I have dug it out repeatedly in the height of summer. I had two full samples of the fragrance, but it fails to excite me over the long haul.

What I want with this scent now, in the midst of the already cold autumn, you might be wondering. Even the always captivating Ergreifend, with its heavy inclination towards smoke and resin, might want to refresh itself. After work, especially after the night shift, when you step out of the warm shower and finally lay down in bed to sleep for a few hours.

Ice Cool seemed right for that. Right, in the sense of applying it to the skin just before sleep and briefly inhaling the scent. Because it doesn't last even an hour. It is flat, not intrusive, gently fresh, with a pleasant lemony base that carries mint leaves. Everything is quiet and shy. So, upon first contact. But then, it reminds me very much of the pharmacy. Alcohol. Something styrofoam-like. That's about it. You can't expect much more from the fragrance, and it hardly holds anything. It's like when I lie around in bed a bit, sniff at my wrists, and pull the blanket up to my nose. Before I fall asleep, the scent has already vanished into nowhere.

A fragrance that isn't really one.
More of a brief refresher that doesn't quite achieve the desired effect.

For trying, okay. But I wouldn't buy this "mayfly" of a scent.