Cool Water Reborn Eau de Parfum

Cool Water Reborn Eau de Parfum is Davidoff's 2023 eau de parfum, marketed to men and built on just three listed notes. Everyone who describes it calls it woody, and about half also find it green.

Galbanum opens it, and it is an uncompromising start: a bitter, resinous, intensely green note that smells of snapped stems and sap rather than fruit or citrus. Cedar follows at the heart, dry and clean, with the pencil-shaving crispness that gives the composition its woody backbone. Haitian vetiver closes it, earthy and rooty with a faint smokiness and a cleaner, lighter profile than other vetivers, so the drydown stays dry rather than sweet.

With no fruit, flowers or sweetness listed, this is a lean, green-woody scent in a spare, modern style. It suits daytime and the office in any season, and should appeal to men who like dry, natural-smelling woods with a sharp green edge and no sugar at all.

Cool Water Reborn Eau de Parfum — for men fragrance by Davidoff (released 2023). Top notes: Galbanum. Heart notes: Cedar. Base notes: Haitian Vetiver. — Parfica open fragrance database