It's a classic for a reason. It may be "dated" but the same can be said for so many other greats like Polo & Drakkar Noir. Who cares if it's "dated"? I don't, not one bit. I'm not making any effort to be trendy in the scents I choose to wear. I simply wear whatever my mood dictates that day.

A gift from my then-boyfriend, now-husband - I loved this perfume! I wore it to my first job and received quite a few compliments. I love the aquatic freshness, it's a fun, lovely scent. The opening is quite sharp and astringent, reminding me of a swimming pool but in a kind of nostalgic way. Melon is instantly noticeable after initial application and stays there throughout development, I get a lot of waterlily and something that feels "grassy" along with a cold dewy sort of feeling from the calone. I can't say I notice any of the other fruits or florals and the pencil shaving woody notes of my previous bottle are non existent. Cool Water dries down to a light melon shower gel skin scent by about the 3hr mark and stays like that until I take a shower. Got an old mini of this, i avoided buying the newer batches....this old stuff smells amazing it's practically the same as Green Irish Tweed. Identical!Cool water is a good name. If the water is next to mountains in a forest. Alpine would also be a good name. but its aromatic, slightly spicy, and watery aspects are such a perfect blend, no matter how synthetic the current formulation. CW was my first, in fragrance journey and no wonder that it is so popular and YES I still love the scent and going to buy another full (Maybe 200 ml) bottle after around two decades! Price is good, and I would say blind buy safe too if you want a change, also uber masculine, so sorry ladies, I wouldn't want to smell this one on any of you, I'd be weirded out!!! Our homerooms were awash in the oversprayed underwashed masses of boys on the verge of adolescence with teachers and the young sunflower drenched girls as our casualties.

Fresh and green; it's very refreshing. I wore it during the high heat in the summer and it performed reasonably well (I needed to reapply but it's not too expensive so that's fine) honestly I almost cried... not just because cool water still amazing but because of the memories that get alive with this scent. Unfortunately based only on my first wear it is the first blind buy that has let me down in my short fragrance journey so far. Let's hope it turns out better to my nose with time. This might be one of the few 80's fragrances I can tolerate and actually--like. It has a sharp opening dominated by green notes with herbal hints of mint and rosemary, closer to the smell of Irish Spring rather than Green Irish Tweed. I have a hard time believing anything would think this is anything more than what it is, a cheap fragrance. It's not bad, but it won't blow anyone away with quality, longevity, sillage, etc. It's definitely one of the most easy to wear 80s fragrances, and that alone says a lot. Well we got home, opened it, and he immediately fell in love. He prefers airy, light scents for me but he needed it to be his, because once we decide whose fragrance it is, the other isn’t allowed to use it as to not ruin the scent for the other one. So once he decided it was his, it was his, and I honestly prefer it that way because I would’ve used this up in a month.

Natural lavender can smell a bit heavy and kind of spicy. While the lavender in this is very very prominent without being spicy, kind of has a cooling effect to it. And..yeah. It's ok. It's fresh, it's clean but I don't know what it smells of. There is at first a very strong synthetic/artificial smell that makes me sneeze. Later, the floral notes open with something that reminds me of honey. But unfortunately, the artificial scent till comes forward... CW is marketed for the beach, GIT is marketed as a walk in a green countryside however smell very similar.

And I think I would've liked Cool Water if I'd tried it first, but having had Wave first, this one just doesn't quite compete. Probably the most popular designer scent of late 90s in my area. The air was full of the original, its dupes, clones and fakes so easy to buy in the local markets. My mother had original bottle and it was potent. Much better than this new juice that I’ve bought to evoke the good old times. I live in a country where cologne or perfumes aren't really that popular to the general mass because it somewhat pricey for a lot or people, so I don't have that "smells like an old man" attachment to this smell. I recently saw the EdT on offer in Boots as well as in various other places, it really is an inexpensive scent and I thought "why not" and got a fresh 50ml EdT. I'm glad I got a fresh bottle but I'm also glad I got a 50ml, it's made me realise facets to this scent that I never noticed before but it's also not one I'd reach for often since I think it's better suited for scorching hot weather and for stuffy environments. Someone wrote "It's been awhile since I've owned this juice, but I've smelled a lot of scents since then that have copied this one, so that says quite abit about it. Creed - Green Irish Tweed totally copied this scent. Perhaps that's why I never thought of Creed as an original house or I haven't bought any of their scents."One of my favorites to wear to bed after overspraying I enjoy to be reminded of nature before sleeping. It is quite calming.

I imagine this would be the smell if someone took a bunch of fresh melons, a few flower petals, put them into a water bottle and after waiting a few minutes, they took a whiff of that water, it would smell like this fragrance. It’s a nice, refreshing mix of watered down sweetness from the fruit and a little sharpness from the petals. In my opinion, this fragrance is one of the best aquatic fragrance for ladies. I'm a guy and I feel that this is a unisex fragrance. I own a bottle too. For me 2-3 sprays are enough. This fragrance is cheap at my place, has great longevity on my skin and smells amazing. Generic smelling, mostly smells like alcohol with some "ocean" hints. It's not bad, just unremarkable. Around 1998, my mom had a shower gel that was meant to be used after laying in the tanning bed that smelled a lot like this, and I would sneak and use it to enjoy the lovely scent. It is summer in a bottle. It is watery and floral and fruity but not super sweet fruity. It is fresh. This is a day outside on a picnic.

The women's edition of Cool Water was the first perfume I bought (mostly I think because it was affordable and not sugary) and, considering I didn't at the time have much idea what I was doing, I could have done a lot worse. I wore it regularly through my late teens and early twenties and have very fond memories of it to the extent that I was not displeased to discover in Hermès’ Eau des Merveilles Bleue, a more grown up and refined cousin. That's exactly how it smells like! First spray and instantly lemons hit you with their juicy freshness which settles slowly in a hour with a very cool ozonic vibe which later settles into some smooth creaminess which is prolly from the sandalwood, vanilla and musk notes After middle school I denied Cool Water as Peter did Jesus. I thought it cheap and outdated, unwilling to be associated with such a fragrance I denounced it roundly. 20 odd years later, while in law school, I finally came home.