So I got a bunch of decants from Mudassir a few days ago, and I've been going through and testing various things. Today I put a shot of GIT on one wrist, and a shot of Cool Water on the other. I had smelled Cool Water before, but never the Creed. I wanted to do a side-by-side comparison of the two, which are widely regarded as quite similar.
Two observations.
1. They are quite similar. Not identical by any means, though. Green Irish Tweed is fuller, smoother, a bit more rounded. Cool Water is sharper, more high-pitched if that makes any sense. 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. 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.
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. 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.
2. 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. It seems firmly in the camp of Acqua di Gio and so on. And i can't help but think that AdG might actually be the better expression of the genre...
Anyone have thoughts?
Two observations.
1. They are quite similar. Not identical by any means, though. Green Irish Tweed is fuller, smoother, a bit more rounded. Cool Water is sharper, more high-pitched if that makes any sense. 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. 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.
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. 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.
2. 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. It seems firmly in the camp of Acqua di Gio and so on. And i can't help but think that AdG might actually be the better expression of the genre...
Anyone have thoughts?