Skin

They reformulated the classic CLEAN Skin, due to a ban on one of the aroma-chemicals it was made with. The opening of it now smells not at all like it use to unless I used a bad tester at Ulta. I tried this one a few years ago, but for some reason, the tonka bean was just too strong on my skin back then. I didn’t care for it. Since the classic Skin was reformulated, I gave this a shot again. It is so much better. Although there are times I smell the salt heavily at first when spraying this on, it goes away after a few minutes and goes to smelling like how I remember the classic Skin to be. Like someone mentioned, this smells like someone still warm from taking a hot shower or bath with a kind of sweet smelling, but expensive soap with a musky finish. The scent of warm skin. Unless someone is trying really hard to be offended, you won’t get any complaints. You will most likely get a ton compliments, but not for your perfume, but that you smell good. That’s the point of this line. Just to smell nice, clean, fresh. Yes, I know, you could just take a shower for that, but if you want to prolong that sweet, fresh, shower smell rather than perfume through out the day, this is the way to go. This actually lasts all day, but it is subtle. Also, some people are anosmic to certain musks, so you may not smell this on you, but it’s there. I’m not anosmic, however had people compliment me 12 hours after spraying it on. I could only smell it when I put my wrist up to my nose because I’ve become accustomed to the smell, but someone else can smell it right away. Speaking of musk, if you’re one that wears musk very well, this can be an aphrodisiac. I’ve had men tell me that the scent is extremely sexy on me. So it works with the natural pheromones. I also have you know that this is one of the only scents I can put on and immediately pet my cat. She doesn’t like the smell of citrus, so she will move away if she smells citrus too strongly, but this? She will jump right in my lap as I sit down, even after just spraying this on. So it’s pet approved. There are other things about the brand that vegan, environmental and animal activists, and people looking for things that help economically and sustainability while helping other cultures and people globally, will love.

For some time now, I've been dreaming of a fragrance... a warm, gentle fragrance, a touch sweet - a whisper of nectar-like sweetness. Just noticeable enough for someone to smell you as you walk by them. This is that fragrance. I'm a sucker for bergamot and how it's sweet and dewy and refreshing at the same time, this is the perfect opening for a fragrance like this-- after all, I started daydreaming of this dream scent after smelling the beauty of 000 by Le Monde Gourmand, a bergamot-heavy fragrance, and playing around with layering Lake & Skye's 11 11 Vanilla and Dedcool's Xtra Milk-- which I still like in its own vein, but these two fragrances definitely standalone as separate beauties. The "skin" note definitely confuses me but I don't mind it, it just adds this extra layer of depth to the sweet musk of it all. I really adore each and every note in here and how they all contribute to this sweet musk of a dream. Even the vanilla orchid and orange blossom, which I've always been able to sniff out in a fragrance, are used so complimentarily (is that a word? Autocorrect is giving me mixed signals) in here. I really do love it and it's magnetic to me. Next, the praline absolutely drives me wild. It's addicting, it's sweet yet mild, it's just right. This is my goldilocks perfume. She catches your eye (your nose?) just as you may think this is an unassuming skin musk. I could hover on this scent trail like a cartoon character. Like really. I only smelled this in store and evaluated longevity immediately and some hours after. I think it's pretty good for the Clean brand. I can't recall the sillage timespan but I recall getting whiffs of her within an hour after. I never thought to give this fragrance a try despite its popularity, purely because my nose and taste hadn't evolved to like/want these kinds of scents yet. But I'm glad I can say I've found this goldilocks perfume of mine :)

For me , it’s the best feminine musk ever . I love this ! Upon first spray I couldn’t believe my nose, it’s so difficult to explain. I’ve tried several fragrances looking for something clean but not detergent nor laundry, subtle but feminine, warm but wearable year long , inoffensive yet appealing, and this is IT! It smells literally like your skin but better, as if you are just out of the shower and had the most lengthy and pricey skin care routine and your skin just smells amazing. It’s like I’m not wearing perfume, as if I am the one smelling this good naturally. I love it , I wanna wear it everyday , to bed , to stay home, to be comfy but classy, it’s elevated femininity in a bottle. The problem I have is the performance, it sits close to you and your skin, maybe that’s the point but it’s very easy to use the whole bottle because you gotta give it several sprays. I’ve tried other clean perfumes that feel to soapy to me, I don’t wanna smell like linen per se , or like manly soap or aftershave, this on the other hand is the perfect musk/your skin cent It is such a well balanced perfume 100000/10

Such a comforting, cozy, sweet and almost gourmand fragrance while still being fresh and light. One of my absolute favorites! However the notes listed here on Fragrantica are pretty misleading though since they don’t correspond with the actual scent. On CLEAN’s website these are the notes: Top Notes: Bergamot, Orange Blossom, Honeysuckle Middle Notes: Warm Skin Accord, Vanilla Orchid, Sunkissed Peony Base Notes: Salted Praline, Fresh Musks, White Cedarwood And you do really get that musky, slightly salty skin-like qualities in this as well as lactonic sweetness from the praline. (Which are the notes listed here) However I feel the flowers in Skin Reserve actually are very important and noticeable in the composition. They stop it from being too cloying and adds complexity, sweetness and freshness.

I received a rather large sample of this last year and ended up really loving it, so I bought the large size bottle. I wore it a lot initially and then took a break, but I just started wearing it again. Clean Skin is subtle. Someone won't smell it unless they're close to you, but I like that, it adds to the wearer's mystery. The fragrance has quite a bit of candy sweetness to it combined with a clean laundry like freshness. It doesn't linger ages, which is nice if you want to change perfumes later in the evening. I think it would be good for layering too, although, I've never tried that with this fragrance. Clean Skin is just such a comfortable scent. I don't feel overwhelmed by it like I can be by some of my stronger fragrances. This is my basic everyday fragrance. I love it!