Clean Skin

I saw a bottle on sale in the local store and bought it after sniffing, because i liked the price and how musky it smelled. Mistake. After coming home i realized it reminds me of Bvlgari Crystalline edt which i already had and swapped away because it was too aquatic and had the wrong type musk to me. Well i never learn, i just too impatient when i find something I think i may love. Clean Skin is more powdery than Crystalline edt, but otherwise very similar. This is musky shower fresh clean fragrance. It doesn’t smell skin to me, it rather resembles freshly showered skin smell, including the smell of a shower gel on ones skin, this is what marketing makes us to think «shower fresh skin», including aquatic, lotus and green tea notes. I do like the musk here, it is just that it is not exactly «my» type of musk. I think it is hard to find a good musk fragrance. Most of what described as musk, often smells to me as soap, shampoo or laundry detergent, i just don’t see a point having a fragrance that smells these things. Musk in Clean Skin is a kind of skin musk type. While it is still not perfect musk for me, it is much better that many white musks out there. I can see it being cozy or even sexy on a right person. I hear everybody who says this fragrance is sexy. It is, not in a NR line kind of way, but in a subtle way. I smell also flowery notes there, most likely lotus, a bit of rose. also powdery notes. lasts very good on me, i took a light shower yesterday after about 3 hours of application, and still could smell the perfume few hours later. Linear development though. I am not going to use it very often, while it is nice fragrance, it lacks personality and it is generally not «me». I am going to keep it for a while, to see maybe i will like it more. or maybe will use it for layering and see how it works in combination with others. I see it as very «safe» for office, healthcare workers, or generally in places when you suppose not to wear any fragrance but still want to, this one can easily pass as body care/shower product smell and nobody will ever assume you wear a fragrance. Recommend to try to all who likes simple, clean, shower fresh fragrances, also who likes to keep sillage to minimum. EDIT: a year later: i actually ended up using this one a lot more than i initially thought i would. great fragrance for summer days, when i do not want anything sweet or floral. this is pretty simple musk, with just a touch of floral blend and suits me well. lasts very long actually, some days i could smell it after 8 hours.

This, and the entire line of CLEAN fragrances, were not meant to be like "traditional" perfumes. So once you shed that expectation, the easier it will be to understand and appreciate this fragrance. "Traditional" perfumes, along with a person's body chemistry, adds a special olfactory quality, a certain character or pizzazz if you will, that accentuates the wearer. What this fragrance does is that it very subtlely accentuates a clean, fresh smelling person. Sometimes, (and daily for some people) that is all that is wanted. In other words, to smell good, clean, and fresh, but not necessarily perfumed with an olfactory artwork that makes a bold statement. You know how when you just get out the shower, the scent left on your skin by the shower gel that you used? Sometimes you might want to keep that scent all day. Some people want that every day. Well, this prolongs that subtle, fresh smell on your skin and can be freshened through out the day. This fragrance is loaded with musk. If by chance you think the fragrance is gone within an hour, you most probably are anosmic to the musk in this fragrance and that's not an uncommon occurrence. Perfumers will often use more than one musk in hopes that you'll catch a whiff of at least one of them. Other people can smell it though and if you're someone that wears musk very well, you will get a lot of compliments. Some people will even find this fragrance extremely sexy! To describe the smell I would say it's like a grown up (sexier) version of Love's Baby Soft. Although they don't smell exactly alike (Love's contains a noticable lavender note, Skin doesn't), they are in that same vein of a fresh smelling fragrance (I think because of the musk component as well as flower notes in common). One reviewer even said that the smell of this reminded her of the girls she went to elementary school with. I bet they were wearing Love's Baby Soft. It's a definite keeper in my fragrance wardrobe that can be worn all year long and its longevity is about 6-8 hours.

I found a rollerball of this lying around my younger sister's apartment this weekend. I love a few of the other CLEAN scents, but couldn't imagine what more could be done with these fragrances after ORIGINAL CLEAN...SHOWER FRESH...WARM COTTON etc. And just after glazing over MORE additions to the CLEAN fragrance collection in Sephora I thought to myself..."Okay CLEAN Fragrances...ENOUGH ALREADY!!!" but of course like many times before I was completely wrong. After my initial pre-application sniff of CLEAN Skin..I thought..."meh.." then..."yuk". Not sure why I decided to actually apply it after being so bored by just smelling it...but MY OH MY it was good...in a simple and clean sort of way. It reminds me of all the girls who attended my elementary school, and always smelled like sweet flowers, but who despite my efforts to mimic their smell, always escaped me well into adulthood...until now. To put it simply...CLEAN Skin smells...well...like a GOOD-SMELLING PERSON! LOL! (Which I'm sure was the fragrance companies' exact goal.) A close-to-the-skin blend of musk, florals, and vanilla, which took about 5 minutes to blend with my body chemistry. And once the fragrance and my body chemistry mingled, lasted well over 12 hours. I think I'll go for a rollerball of this scent. While I think it's a cute fragrance, I don't feel that it's worth the $68 for a full bottle which will probably spoil before I get a chance to finish it. The best part of the fragrance, is the unexpected visits from my sweet smelling elementary school friends who's names I have long forgotten...but who I will never forget how pretty they smelled, whenever I move!

So, this has been a scent I've came back to time and time and again. Last winter I ran out and needed another bottle so I ordered one. When I got it, opened, sprayed it on, and [cough, cough]. What happened to this? So, just like almost every other fragrance on the market it had to be reformulated. Once that process, was complete, it was put in vats, thrown in bottles, packaged, and sent out to stores. No time to macerate. So, when I bought it and sprayed it on, it smelled like windex, but never fear. I put it away for a while in a cool, dark place and let it sit. I took it out a little while ago, sprayed it, and "Oh, hello old friend. Good to see you're your old self again. Welcome back!" So, if you get a bottle that's not quite smelling like old self, put it away for a little while and allow it to macerate a little longer and let those molecules do their thing. These things sometimes take time, and climate has a lot to do with it particularly if shipped from one place to another across the world. Try that and see if you get your old friend back. There may be a bit of a difference because an ingredient was replaced and things were rearranged a bit, but I think things will be much better for you once you complete this process. I had in put away for about 6 months. This scent is something I can wear all year round. The reserve blend, I'm sorry, I can't stand. I feel like I really have sticky praline and salt on my skin, but that's just how my skin plays the scent. Like everything else, your chemistry tells how a scent will be on your skin.

Skin is the kind of scent that presents as a simple floral musk but reveals something a little bit deeper and seductive as it wears. Upon first application, you only get musk and, unfortunately, alcohol (which evaporates quickly anyway). It smells light and almost immature when you first put it on, but not necessarily in a bad way. Floral, cheerful, and nondescript. The dry-down is where this scent REALLY shines. It is ever-so-slightly sweet, less floral, and just the teensiest bit warm. The dry-down and base notes really explain why it's called "skin." This is perfume you wear on a date when you're actually into the person. The dry-down smells good, but as a low-projection scent with nothing too bold you have to get close to smell it. People may be fooled that you're just a naturally good smelling person. The hyper-natural dry-down is what makes this, for me, a bit of an avant-garde scent. No individual component is so unusual or subversive, but it's unusual for a "good" smelling scent to be so close to what you imagine naturally good-smelling skin to smell like. Going off my own experience (and not only marketing), here are the notes that I detect: floral, musk, baby powder, cashmere, subtle vanilla, water. Vibes are as follows: -realizing you're sitting closer to someone than you thought -laying in the sun during a picnic with your friends -off shoulder cashmere sweaters