Clean
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Ozonic notes burst with synthetic brightness, immediately evoking a clothes dryer's mechanical freshness, whilst ginger adds peppery warmth that prevents the opening from feeling entirely chemical. Within seconds, you're standing in a sun-drenched laundry room, though the sensation feels decidedly artificial.
Spearmint and peppery notes activate with surprising vitality, creating a minty-spiced middle ground that briefly elevates the composition. The florals emerge softly, providing sweetness without definition, whilst the fresh synthetic accord maintains its grip, preventing any genuine floral development from taking hold.
Musk, vetiver, and frankincense attempt a graceful conclusion, introducing earthy depth and resinous warmth. By this stage, however, the fragrance has largely dissipated into skin scent territory, leaving only whispers of spiced musk and vetiver's dry, herbal shadow on the fabric of your clothes.
Clean Reserve Warm Cotton occupies an intriguing liminal space—a fragrance that announces itself as a fresh laundry scent but refuses to stay confined there. Steven Claisse constructs something more architecturally interesting than the name suggests, layering ginger's spicy warmth against an ozonic synthetic backbone that hums with an almost metallic cleanliness. This is fabric softener with ambition, though it never quite achieves its aspirations.
The composition's central tension lies in how the floral and minty heart notes wrestle with that aggressively synthetic accord. Spearmint and peppery notes arrive with genuine snap, animated against softened florals that read less as distinct blooms and more as the olfactory equivalent of a whisper. The musk base attempts gravitas, anchoring what could otherwise evaporate into pure abstraction, whilst vetiver and frankincense add unexpected earthy sophistication—though they arrive too late to meaningfully reshape the fragrance's identity.
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