Davidoff
Cool Water
Aquatic Aromatic · 1988 · Pierre Bourdon
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Short
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Casual
- Typical season
- All Year
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Reviewed profile
Mint and lavender open cool and clean over the sea-water freshness this scent made famous. A quiet tobacco note deepens the base, adding a faint warmth underneath. Crisp and enduring, a marine classic that still reads clean decades on.
Taste Profile
The Purist
The Signature
Unmistakable. Always has been.
You arrived with a signature and you've never needed to explain it. Consistency is its own kind of confidence. Some things become part of the room before you do.
How Cool Water smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Cool Water keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere, and reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin.
Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.
Cool Water reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin. That is 7th percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Cool Water sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 12th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Cool Water is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 25th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Cool Water carries body without weight, present without filling a room. That is 22nd percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Cool Water keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is among the lowest in the catalogue for sweetness across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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