Cool Water Intense Davidoff 2019

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7.4 / 10 1060 Ratings

Cool Water Intense is a perfume by Davidoff for men and was released in 2019. The scent is fresh-sweet. It is being marketed by Coty.

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Main accords

Fresh

Sweet

Fruity

Aquatic

Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Green mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Coconut water

Base Notes

Amber

Perfumer

Annick Ménardo

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Ratings

Scent

7.41060 Ratings

Longevity

7.91010 Ratings

Sillage

7.51001 Ratings

Bottle

7.11034 Ratings

Value for money

8.8748 Ratings

Submitted by Morpheus1, last update on 16.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is model Christian Hogue.

Reviews

47 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/20/2019

6
Bottle 6
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Leimbacher
421 Reviews

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Leimbacher

Top Review 30

No more cool water... but still very cool!

As a cool water flanker? Topic missed! As perfume in itself? Close to the bull's eye! Well, that's the way it goes...

"Cool Water Intense" is the perfect combination of salty coconut water and masculine mandarin. Traces of the original? At best to guess, not even that. But as a new, contemporary creation, this thing kicks me a lot more than I thought. It's sweet but not childish or sticky (maybe quite light in the back), but it has a marine aura combined with sugary crumbs from the current (quite rightly controversial) generation of men's fragrances. The balancing act fits, the update is successful. Not as a more intense or darker version of the legend, but much more as a remake with completely new focal points, approaches and paths. Actually a completely new beast. That with his kindness and attitude, something scares me. Because I had expected the worst, wasn't "disappointed" as far as the fucked up degree of kinship was concerned, and at the same time I'm completely surprised by something new, which can best be described as a high-quality mixture of "Roma Uomo" and "Encounter". Simple and convincing. The backside is a bit pulpier and more worn out, but overall I enjoy the thing, it has character and enough independence to not be considered as plagiarism or fellow swimmer. It is also worth mentioning, especially because of the younger Davidoff history and the unpleasant signs of the coconut, that the artificiality and lab coats were left at home as far as possible or when they are used more positively and bring with them a certain modernity and smoothness. "I'd buy Cool Water Intense. Especially if something else falls in the price. And often wear. More of an all-rounder than a summer addonis. Warming, sweet Vetivervelvet in the spine. Oh, great.

Flacon: old shape, dark shade
Sillage: pimped up discreetly
Durability: amazingly long - 7-9 hours

Conclusion: the name is only used to generate customers and attention. That's not stupid, but it's close to label fraud. Nevertheless: standing alone, "Cool Water Intense" is a fine, summery, sweet fragrance in the spirit of the times. Coconut sometimes not cheap and sticky, beautifully fused with vetiver and mandarin. I like that. Very much so

07/25/2019

7
Pricing 6
Bottle 7
Sillage 9
Longevity 4.5
Scent

Fresh21
52 Reviews

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Fresh21

Top Review 29

The darn seventh comment ;-)

Man, what did I get so excited about Run Wild? As someone who grew up with Cool Water and for a long time only associated the name Davidoff with good things, this annoying synthetic sweetheart now stood for me completely for the crash of an already weakening company in the last few years in terms of perfume.

That's why I teased even before the introduction of the CWI in a statement "Next Flop after Run Wild? Please don't" ... But unfortunately that's exactly how it should be, in my opinion. And because all comments so far have been exclusively positive, I wanted to call mine first:

Don't be serious ;-)

Sure, I'm often a little bit mischievous, and I always entangle tears in a funny story. But at Cool Water Intense I am simply too disappointed and too tired to do so. Because this alleged coconut water is not dissimilar to the longest part of its fragrance course of L'Eau Majeure d'Issey, which is only rated with an average of 5.5.

But first, a short description of my fragrance of the CWI: starts fresh and bright, whereby I imagine something different under a green mandarin, but o.k. Then it dazzles into a typically sweet-smooth mode, as one often perceives (too) in cheap drugstore scents, but here probably stands for the coconut water. Okay so far, but nothing for me. But then the shock: after about two hours, the scent develops in a direction that I have already sat down in a spontaneous purchase, and then led me to a tear. Because there it is again, this penetrating liquorice artificiality of L'Eau Majeure d'Issey, which has nothing to do with coconut for my well-being, and which is also found in L'Eau Majeure d'Issey Shade of Sea. If you like this (new?) synthetic direction, you should have a look at these two Japanese. But my case is neither in this nor in the Cool Water Intense, which only becomes lighter, more sweet and more bearable after about six hours, when the scent flows into the amber.

Of course, this is only my very personal perception, but I am still a bit surprised that CWI finds such a resonance. If you take a closer look, however, there is a small conspicuous feature:

So far there are only 6 comments, all positive. But among the statements (with rating) there are 10 out of 35 with worse marks (up to and including 6). This is quite typical for new releases, for which at the beginning there are almost only enthusiastic first comments, whereas in statements the negative ratings are often packed.

And what do I mean?

Quite simply, this rings in the positive turn of my Kommis, not only owed to my "image" ;-) but also quite real. For unfortunately I prophesy to this new flanker that he will not be able to keep to the present 7,4, but will fall clearly below 7. Because this would be "clearly" but too expensive for me ;) I stay at 7,0 and give E99EsAns, the very first (and 10/10/10/10) CWI-commentator a bottle, if the community should still be at least 7,1 on 01.01.2020, and he can still smell this Davidoff so good :-)

Sorry, I'd love to bet, and that'd be my first on Parfumo. A little bit of fun must be allowed after the end, even if it tends towards tearing off, this

damn seventh comment ;-)

01/24/2020

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Basti87
238 Reviews

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Basti87

Top Review 19

He's not that cool

This Cool Water Intense has been in my collection for a few months. 40ml is available for little money and perfect for extensive testing. A fragrance that I would not have tested or bought from the name rather, because I find the original quite sucked out. For me one of the greatest fragrance classics of all time which makes it rather unexciting for me. Otherwise an evergreen with which one is actually always right.
But what I found tempting about this release was the pyramid of scents. It is very minimal, but the coconut water irritated me. I generally find summery exotic notes exciting. In the beginning, even here Roma Uomo was listed as the fragrance twin. After many tests he is definitely more similar to this Roma than Cool Water.
I think the name Cool Water Intense is completely wrong. He expects Intense-Flankers to have at least some similarity to the original. No luck here. It's not easy for laypeople to see through the madness. But the Cool Water range is now huge and this range is good for advertising. Nevertheless I find that this fragrance is a completely independent scent.

Perfumer here is Annick Menardo. This lady is following me and somehow a lot of scents of this lady are wandering into my collection. It convinces above all with great transitional fragrances. This is also where I would locate this one. It is best at temperatures between 10 and 20 degrees. It has a great tart freshness sweetened with exotic coconut water I doubt whether there are really only three notes. This pyramid can be found on all pages like this, but usually there are a few more notes included. On the whole, however, a creation that is not very complex but scores with a high recognition value. A fragrance twin doesn't really come to mind.
The fragrance is quickly described, as it also has little development. The fragrance has a great tart freshness paired with coconut water. In a blind test I would not have come up with coconut, but here is simply a great creamy-sweet-exotic note at work. The station wagon with the tart green tangerine is unusual and totally interesting. A combination that stays this way for many hours until it fades away in a soft, sweet and sensual way. A fragrance with rough edges and really not aalglatt.
Performance is very very good with many hours and in the beginning really a very good silage. Even if Cool Water doesn't fit, the Intense definitely fits
A fragrance that suits many occasions. Whether in everyday life, for sports, in leisure time or in the evening. With currently mild temperatures a great alternative and also for the approaching spring. I can recommend it, especially for this great price.

07/23/2019

7
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Chanelle
113 Reviews

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Chanelle

Top Review 22

Le Cool Male

After numerous Cool Water Flankers of the masculine and feminine kind, I had already ticked off CW, when I was told that "the new one" should be a "good one". Since the CWs are not overly expensive, I let it come to a blind purchase, and today I took care of the sweetheart. And what do I say?
Bämm.
Intense!
Not related to the original CW, not even related by marriage, this representative is a completely new fragrance in the coconut water trend. The new Le Male, which I tested yesterday, he loosely pockets in his pocket, as he can come up with a super-splashy, greenish mandarin, along with the mildly sweet coconut. The amber base smells valuable, warm and beautiful.
The performance also rocks.
The direction is gourmand, but still masculine, and for the money you get something on your nose.
I'm gonna spray this summer (as long as it doesn't get far over 28 degrees) on any guy who's staying still long enough.
And no, Davidoff didn't sponsor me. I find it simply gelungen.

06/28/2019

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Profumorist
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Profumorist

Top Review 26

'90s. Retro. Chic.

Schoork, my dear! What you can do, I can do for a long time ;-)

The '90s. I spent it between the ages of ten and 20. I went to high school. I graduated from high school. I was in love for the first time, drunk for the first time. I spent my youth with them.

The '90s were Guns n Roses, Nirvana, REM, Rage against the machine. Oh, yeah, Bon Jovi was never really cool. November Rain", "Black Hole Sun", "Smells like teen spirit", "Losing my religion" and "Killing in the name of". But you were also Snap!, Dr. Alban, Haddaway. Techno and Eurodance, Top of the pops, Brit-Pop, Kelly Family and the almost unmanageable number of boy bands. Hyper, hyper and somewhere above the rainbow.

The 90s were parties in the Rhein-Rock-Hallen and in the Tarm-Center. They were Smirnoff and Little Coward. A lot of Kölsch, a lot of booze, a lot of nausea.

The 90s were also Game-Boy, Super Nintendo, Super Mario, Sonic and Doom. Ego shooter on the PC. Beverly Hills 90210, Baywatch, Diddl, Tamagotchi and the G-Shock.

In the 90's the Backstreet Boys were still free to receive at MTV, Jasmin Wagner was still called Blümchen, without the 501 from Levis or the backpack from Eastpack it didn't work, tattoo chains were still in, platform soles still fashionable and the boys wore bomber jackets. The boys still wore the blonded mid-crown pot cut and the girls Buffalos.

The 90s were for me personally but also Müngersdorf. The old stadium with the tartan track. Pierre Littbarski, Icke Häßler, Bodo Illgner, Toni Polster and of course Mucki Banach. Noticeably different halt.

So what's this got to do with the scent? Honestly, not much. Besides the completely misleading name, the new Cool Water reminds me of a fragrance we wore in the mid/late 90s. I can't think of him just to die, I'm afraid.

First you have to ask yourself why Davidoff called this perfume "Cool Water Intense". Because it has absolutely nothing to do with the original. Zero. Comma. Nothing. Nothing. Davidoff seems to have copied it from Dior. They are also not the hottest when it comes to (intended) naming.

The start is, as expected, very fresh and slightly fruity. I'd sign for tangerine in here. The whole thing is directly accompanied by the coconut. And that's important to mention: The coconut or as indicated the coconut water is not dominant. You don't smell like a pina colada. I also perceive the smell of vetiver (finely dosed). The whole thing is nicely seasoned. Creamy, fresh, pleasantly woody. And the synthetics don't scratch either. For me, who doesn't like these modern and no longer distinguishable fresh-fruity-sweet scents at all, this one is more than wearable.

The base appears after a good four hours. Here the new one definitely gets sweeter.

Durability: Respect Davidoff! Respect. It holds like a Duracell bunny. Where we'd be back in the '90s.

Sillage: Not even from bad parents. Recognizable, not exuberant and therefore very well balanced.

Flacon: Geil. Just awesome. The classic Cool Water bottle in dark blue. Attention, it's coming........awesome!

Finally, I can only say that I really like the new one here. Maybe or probably it is because of the memories that this perfume evokes in me and maybe a child of the 90s will remember at some point which fragrance smelled so much more than 20 years ago. Please let me know.

Greetings

Your Profumorist

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