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English language (monolingual) [PRO] Art/Literary - Cosmetics, Beauty
English term or phrase:toilet water
Does 'toilet water' have 2 meanings in English? http://www.yourdictionary.com/toilet-water says: toilet water a lightly scented liquid with a high alcohol content, applied to the skin after bathing, etc. or added to bath water
However, a large amount of google hits show that the phrase is actually used as water in / from the toilet bowl, e.g.: 70 percent of the time, ice from fast food restaurants was dirtier than toilet water. ... abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/story?id=1641825&page=1
Now - would native English speakers smile on reading 'XXXX is a new toilet water targeted at female teenagers'? Eau de Cologne would do the trick, naturally. Does it sound right, or does it sound really strange... It does sound strange to me, but I'm not a native speaker, and (to my surprise) dictionaries actually seem to say that one can use it to refer to (more or less) 'perfume, tragrance, etc.'
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Click on the following link and you'll see that there is virtually no difference between eau de toilette and eau de cologne. eau fraiche, and body splash, etc. (and other similar names for similar concoction)
I agree that Eau de Toilette is an equivalent but depending on the country & audience you're targeting you may want to use a name that has appeal to that specific audience and using the 'older' name may actually alienate.
There are different ways to call this.You may want to use the one suitable for a young female audience:a version that appeals to that segment. Perhaps a certain name is preferred by this segment while this audience may have an aversion to other names.