Clean
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bright, raw lemon bursts first with an almost startling sharpness, immediately tempered by green fig leaf and a peppery ginger snap that prevents any sweetness from establishing itself. Within minutes, the citrus feels more tart than juicy—almost squeezed, never bottled.
Mandarin's soft floral warmth mingles with copaiba's resinous honey, creating an unexpected creamy texture against the persistent ginger spine and mint's cooling bite. Cardamom emerges subtly, adding dusty spice without theatrical flourish, and the composition settles into something genuinely balanced—bright but grounded, fresh but textured.
Cedarwood and sandalwood form a barely-there woody pencil-shaving quality rather than the heavy warmth typically expected, whilst musk clings like a second skin, nearly invisible. The fig and lemon have long departed; what remains is abstract—more a memory of freshness than its presence, fading into pure skin chemistry within four to five hours.
Clean Reserve Citron Fig arrives as a calculated meditation on brightness rather than exuberance. Richard Herpin has engineered something deliberately restrained—a fragrance that whispers rather than announces. The lemon-fig pairing in the opening is genuinely unusual; rather than the expected candied sweetness of fig, it arrives as something closer to green, almost unripe—the fig leaf's vegetal undertone wrestling with tart citrus. This tension is precisely the point.
This is a scent for the mornings after you've decided to stop performing. The ginger doesn't warm so much as it tightens, sharpening the citrus's edges. As mandarin and copaiba balsam emerge, there's a subtle tackiness—that resinous, almost honey-like quality of balsam creates an unexpected creamy undertone that prevents the composition from becoming austere. The mint and cardamom arrive not as toothpaste refreshment but as spice-cabinet whispers, suggesting complexity without demanding attention.
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