Laundromat

The beauty of Demeter is that these singular notes are made for layering. I layered this with their Pure Soap and Rain fragrances and —my god — did I create the ultimate uber-freshie! If crisp aldehydic accord reads as biting or synthetic to your nose, I don’t suggest this. If you love crisp aldehydes, this is for you. Alone, this reminds me of a fabric softener sheet newly spent and fresh out the end of a dryer cycle. I think a synthetic smell is quite appropriate considering most laundry detergent, scent boosters, and fabric softeners are made with distinctly synthetic fragrances. My aforementioned ozonic aldehyde freshie bomb is perfect after my evening shower before heading to bed. I usually wear it to bed twice a week after I’ve changed the linens and they’re fresh out of the dryer. Fresh linens, freshly washed cotton pjs, and this perfume before bed has become a ritual.

I have to say, to me this smells *exactly* like a laundromat. I love it and keep a little bottle in my purse. It evokes memories of the smell of soap and dryer sheets, but more than that the smell of the clothes tumbling in the dryers. There is a scent there - maybe the dryer itself and the smell of the air tumbling around, clothes being folded, freshly washed laundry, the soap dispenser, those baskets with wheels. I'm not sure what it is but this *is* the laundromat and I love remembering those times when I would be able to get 5 or 6 loads of laundry done all at the same time, reading old magazines and inhaling that aroma. Demeter is hit or miss for me but they really got it right with this one.

For some reason, I'm extremely drawn to the scent of fresh laundry detergents. Their clean aura uplifts me and makes me think good thoughts. Demeter's Laundromat is a fragrance I absolutely adore. It's gentle, soft, and playful. It's the scent of freshly washed linen with just a tiny touch of floral notes. I'm sad this scent doesn't last long on me. I love it nevertheless.

I like it very much. It makes me smile, it reminds me of my childhood when I was frequently going to a laundry with my mum :) It smells like a very nice laundry detergent together with the damp warm air of a laundry.

I like this but it has fleeting durability ... Nowhere near the quality of the bodyshops cotton white ... Now there was a stunning fresh fragrance :)

Love it, but like all Demeter fragrances, it just doesn't last.

I bought a few fragrances for my wife's birthday as she always looks for something that just smells "like clean laundry" Well that's when demeter enters the picture with these scents. Laundromat, Linen and Clean's Fresh Linens. In my opinion these are not really fragrances because they are scents engineered to just smell like the clean clothes you are probably wearing this morning. Nobody is going to go nuts for this...but my wife sure loves wearing them. I know she's wearing them because well...it smells crazy clean and a tad floral. She wears Cuba Jungle Zebra that is also a nice clean frag. She mixes them now since I told her Demeter's concept is layering. Performance is great on clothes but not so great on skin. I paid 20$ for 120ml unlike the Clean brand that cost me 45 for 63ml. You definitely get what you pay for and my wife is happy too.

I love to wear this fragrance in my hair if I am feeling icky or haven't had time to wash it. It is uplifting, comforting and clean. It is very subtle, and I love applying it from the bottle that I have (no spray cap). It reminds me of the colognes my grandma used to give us as little girls. You take your finger and tip the bottle then dab a bit behind your ears. Sigh... :) so nostalgic!

This doesn't smell like anything related to laundry on me. They should have named this fabric softener or cream shower gel or something instead. It's a pleasant, clean, soapy and creamy scent. I was expecting something fresher, cooler, aquatic. However, it is very wearable and inoffensive, so I am still going to wear it. Edit: the dry down smells a lot like flower by kenzo

Smells like laundry, very realistic. Doesn't last on the skin, I put it on my clothes.

It smells like an old Italian lavanderia. At the same time you will also smell like an old Italian lady that has been to this laundromat. I don't know if I like wearing this scent. It makes me feel old, not fresh. Doesn't last at all.

I tried to like it, but I am so disappointed. How is Demeter so popular? I can't even call this a fragrance. It smells so weak and lasts literally 10 seconds on the skin. I've tried applying after a shower, with fixative, just lathering it on, and nothing keeps it around! My family members agree that they can barely smell it, even with it right up to their nose. As for the scent itself, it's giving suntan and cheap hotel lotion. There's a metallic note in there that ages horribly on the skin and becomes almost sour and briny. I was hoping for a clean, almost soapy detergent smell followed by warm dryer sheets and fresh linen. This is nothing like that. The biggest drawback though is the horrific sillage and longevity. I could smell an unlit candle in another room better than I can smell this on my own skin.

I thought from reading reviews on Demeter fragrances, I would love them. I was mistaken. I blind bought 4 Demeter scents, First love, laundromat, pink grapefruit and ginsing root in a bundle on PoshMark. I'm not a fan of any of them. Laundromat smells like some sort of strange plastic scent. Maybe a new laundry basket. There is no clean or soapy smell to my nose. I'm not sure where y'all are hanging your laundry out to dry, but this in no way smells like my clothes that have been dried on the clothesline. The other 3 are sweet and cloying until they disappear in 5 mins. Zero longevity. Based on these 4 scents, I can't figure out why anyone would ever want to buy anything labeled Demeter.

It does remind me of laundry detergent on first application, and then as another commenter mentioned, dries down to a more dryer-sheet type scent. The only thing I was hoping for was for it to smell a little more "warm," like the smell of clothes just out of the dryer. Instead it smells more cool, like pulling the clothes out of the washer. Pretty good projection, wish it lasted a little longer but for the price I'm not mad. EDIT: I was using the 0.5 oz dabber and emptied it into a spray bottle. When I spray it on, it becomes headache-inducing. My nose still loves the scent but my brain doesn’t. Just for that, I won’t be repurchasing.

I know Demeter have a troop of eager fans who adore every single fragrance they made, But to me they are worthless. And I made the big mistake of buying 3 diferent ones (fresh ginger, pink grapefruit and laundromat). Ok, Laundromat, the scent is clean, light, soapy and not much. It last for minutes only. I wore it on my skin and nothing, on my clothes and nothing and even on my laundry...and nothing! So I'm truly disappointed and even though I only spent $14 on each it still feels like a lot of money for what I got.

Clean and fresh with floral notes. Uplifting and energetic. Not as generic as expected, but not unique or special. More sudsy soap than that airy scent of nearby laundry, but still comforting and sun-soaked. There’s a streak of aquatic blue. Inoffensive, but not worth seeking out. It just smells like detergent.

The only 'laundry' note I detect in this are wooden pegs.. and then there's a dry, slightly bitter powder note like crushed paracetemol - which I guess is meant to be the washing powder

Yep, it smells like laundry. A little powderier than I expected. I was hoping more for something that smelled like Tide detergent.

Beach themed hand soap. Demeter is good enough for florals and nothing else.

Oh my good god ...... this was foul, I mean very very bad. Ordered from a reputable site, £30 for 30ml.....I was so looking forward to this great clean smelling freshness bomb....down to earth with a bang when it smelled of glue and spittle...I shit you not 🤷🏻♀️ whether it was a rogue bottle, it must have been surely as so many people have said it smells of detergent, clean ????? Thank god being Demeter it didn’t linger about on my skin...I have Pure Soap and was expecting something similar or better in the same sort of ball park ......not even in the same stratosphere!!!!!! I would love to try another bottle just to test it.....

Laundromat has the similar Vodka-smelling start as Pure Soap, however, the Vodka smell here has entangled with the perfume for quite a few minutes. The start of Laundromat is somewhat cold metallic plus a bit of plant sharpness (thinking about rosemary, but Laundromat doesn’t smell anything of rosemary tho). After these brief weird phase, Laundromat does smell like Laundromat, especially those Laundromat placed in a commercial laundry place—still clean, nice, possibly harbours so many different types of washing powders, slightly synthetic but nice enough (just like the washing detergent smell, it’s synthetic, but we are so used to it thus we find it ‘nature’ somehow). Laundromat is nice, but somehow I find it sometimes makes me feel as if I’ve been locked in a laundry room, without fresh air. I would recommend Pure Soap as a more ‘nature’/comfy perfume to use instead of Laundromat if what you are looking for is the washing product smell plus a little bit mental/emotional space for fresh air.

This scent reminds me of the smell of powdered detergent that you buy from the machine in public laundromats. The generic stuff that comes out of the machines on the wall, and when you open it, you can smell that it's detergent but its not something 'special', like Tide or Purex. Its just plain washing powder. Not unpleasant.... and I imagine that this is what a public laundromat would smell like after an entire day of folks using that generic powder to wash their clothes. The staying power isn't bad on this, but it really stays close to the skin. Its also one of the more oily colognes that I've tried from Demeter. After spraying it all over my arms, they had a sheen of oil for a few hours after. I eventually had to rub it in because it was driving me crazy just seeing it like that. I thought that might help it stick around a bit longer, but nope. Glad I tried it, but probably won't be on my list of Demeter fragrances to buy again.

It was a blind buy from the swedish ebay and I was a bit disappointed, because I didn't get any kind of "laundry-smell".I know, maybe it's sounds stupid, but I love the freshly washed clothes smell.I have Clean Fresh Laundry and I love it, because it's exactly catch of the freshly washed clothes smell what is dried under the sun.:) On my skin this perfume a pure magnolia scent..no less no more.Sometimes I cannot tolerate, sometimes I really wish to wear...it's depends on my mood and the weather.:)It's very linear, simply but not a bad scent.I use it very rarely so I think this bottle (30 ml) is gonna be enough forever.:) It's remind me of Avon Magnolia.

This is my signature scent and by far my favorite Demeter perfume. It captures the exact laundromat smell. Fabric softener, detergent, cotton, and the slightly soap-y, bleach-y scent that always seems to linger on tile floors. From reading other reviews it seems to be a bit of a controversial scent, but other than the less-than-ideal staying power, it's heavenly. I would recommend buying the roll-on oil version because it stays on a bit longer. I could not recommend this scent more, especially when mixed with Demeter's green tea scent or perhaps love's baby soft to lean into the powder-y note.

Interesting scent - I certainly don't agree with the the description Demeter gives of this fragrance as a "comforting" scent. To my nose, the opening is cold, a bit industrial - like a clean linoleum floor in a laundromat. If I sniff for individual notes, all my nose can pick out is an odd anise note and some soapiness. The dry-down is more what I'd expect out of a fragrance called "Laundromat." A slightly sweet, drier-sheet floral feel. Overall a sort of challenging, weird fragrance. Not something I'd buy more of to wear out or anything, but I have enjoyed using my 5mL sample at home.

I received this as a free roll-on oil sample with a Demeter order and it is one of the most disappointing of their scents. While it's not unpleasant, it doesn't evoke the experience of a laundromat; it smells more like straight-up laundry detergent (with perhaps a hint chlorine bleach thrown in). It lacks the dry, dusty note of commercial dryers, which it would have benefitted from to make it less soapy. Without that, it is clean and floral, but in no way smells like a laundromat. In short, it has the washer down, but where is the dryer?

I have to disagree with the majority of reviewers here and say that Laundromat reminds me not of detergent, but fabric softener. But I do agree that it has a very clean, somewhat soapy smell. It approximates the chemical scent of freshly-washed clothing fairly well. I just don't know why I'd want to exaggerate that smell and wear it under my . . . freshly washed clothes. All well.

I was VERY curious about this perfume because I ́m on a constant search for the perfect "clean" smell. When I bought mine, unsniffed, the very first impression was of laundry soap (like if I was smelling it from the box) and not washed clean clothes. It ́s not what I was expecting, but the final result is pleasant. The lasting is just ok.

I got an instant headache. But from reading some of the reviews maybe I should've let it sit for a bit. I purchased Pure Soap instead. I prefer CLEAN-FRESH LAUNDRY if I'm looking for that laundromat smell. Pure grace Philosophy and CLEAN warm cotton are my favorite "clean" scents. Always on the look out, Clean is my favorite smell.

Fresh and sudsy with a wintergreen twist! Lovely but alas too clean for my taste. Longevity and sillage are moderate and good for a Demeter.

Sweety clean. A little juicy. Absolutely no staying power...as with all the others from this line and why it frustrates me so!

Smells like any of those 'clean linen' or cotton candles you can find everywhere.

Actually smells like one is swathed in fresh bed linen. Ingenious!!!!!!

disappointed. fresh, but deja-vu. nothing special, no satying power.

Good smell! Very fresh, clean. Perfect after a good bath :)

Smeel so good! like fresh linens and detergent. Mmmmm