The top notes are similar, but after that, they vary greatly. I can tell enough difference between the quality of it and Cool Water to never wear the latter. Personally, I like GIT, but I do not love it. It is still very accessible to most noses. I don't think it's in the same boat as AdG and other aquatics. It's not a powerhouse, but it's not really an aquatic either. It was one of the first (not the first, as Issey stakes that claim) to revolutionize men's fragrances from the powerhouse scents of the 80s to the lighter end of the spectrum and eventually to the aquatic lifeless filled scents that designers produce today. GIT was the frag that put CREED on the map in terms of popularity back in the 80s, so it has that legacy.Ģ. There are a few reasons GIT gets the hype it gets and I do agree it is very much overhyped.ġ. GIT on the other hand is more natural and presents better. On me Cool Water is nice, synthetic, but nice. One specifically, Hermes Terre d'Hermès, was a no on me but the wife loved it on the son. They are similar no question about it, but just as with my fishing rods (G Loomis vs St Croix) or maybe better suited for this community razor x vs razor y, similar is not the same.įor Christmas I received about a dozen samples and some of the can't miss items just did not work for me. With regards to Cool Water vs GIT I get it completely. Most importantly my wife really likes some Creed products, such as GIT, on me. For some Creed can do no wrong and they will proclaim its superiority at every chance for others Creed is the most vile company around and those fans simply cannot remotely fathom how someone can have an opinion otherwise.įor me I like some Creed products, certainly not all and it is not the only company I support. I completely agree on the obsession with Creed, but it goes on both sides of the fan base. And i can't help but think that AdG might actually be the better expression of the genre. It seems firmly in the camp of Acqua di Gio and so on. I just don't really understand what the fuss is about GIT! With all the disdain leveled at 'boring fresh aquatics' on the various fragrance boards I read, I can't understand the simultaneous fascination with GIT. In my view, Cool Water can play the same role in a fragrance wardrobe that GIT can, at a fifth or less of the cost.Ģ. I certainly wouldn't shell out for the Creed over the Davidoff they just don't seem different enough in character to justify the difference. The drydown exposes additional differences Cool Water stays with the calone overdose and fresh synthetics much longer than the GIT, which seems to dry down to a somewhat more traditional base. They both smell as though they're made with a big dose of synthetics- calone and so forth- but the synthetics in the Davidoff seem a bit screechier. Cool Water is sharper, more high-pitched if that makes any sense. Green Irish Tweed is fuller, smoother, a bit more rounded. I wanted to do a side-by-side comparison of the two, which are widely regarded as quite similar.ġ. I had smelled Cool Water before, but never the Creed. Today I put a shot of GIT on one wrist, and a shot of Cool Water on the other. So I got a bunch of decants from Mudassir a few days ago, and I've been going through and testing various things.
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