Warm Cotton Clean 2007 Eau de Parfum

I normally love laundry scents - but this one fell flat on my skin. After applying, the fern seemed to stick out and compete with the "cotton" or detergent elements.

I agree with an earlier reviewer that it smelled like huffing the dry powder straight out of the detergent carton - a bit sharp/harsh.

I preferred Sea Island Cotton Eau de Toilette or their Sea Island Shore (they're identical, and the mist has decent longevity) over this - it's the perfect clean, aquatic, powdery detergent scent.

This is a cozy warm dryer sheet scent with phenomenal sillage. This is not really soapy like many of the other fragrances from the clean line. Warm Cotton is much more of a soothing floral blend that will seem familiar and airy to most. On me it also seems to make me feel very sleepy and ready for naptime. Bring on the apple juicy sippy cups and graham crackers...I feel like I'm back in Kindergarten...and it feels pretty good to escape back in time once in a while, actually. I found that one spritz of this will fresh a whole 10 x 8 ft. room for 2-4 hours. I also found that this scent will sometimes induce a massive headache and cause people around me to start sneezing on occasion. Wear with caution a little of this juice goes a long way. The over all effect is a pleasant clean musky powdery scent, that can't ever smell dirty no matter how it might try. I keep a travel size of this in my bag, because if I found myself and 100 other people stranded some place without running water and soap, like on "Lost"...this would come in handy for at least the first 2 seasons.

Clean Warm Cotton to my nose is the scent of clothes just after being removed from the washing machine, after a warm rinse and spin dry.

There's definitely a floral blend in this fragrance that reminds one of the scent of washing powder, but it's more the scent of washing powder after having gone through the wash. This is damp scented clothes, not the dry, lightly scented kind.

I like this fragrance much more than other scents in the Clean range because to me it smells a lot less clean and more musty. It's also quite intense and easily unisex.

I'm actually quite intrigued by the way in which the perfumer has created Clean Warm Cotton. I would liken this fragrance's accuracy to that of the house of Demeter, where every perfume smells exactly like its name. For what it's worth, I'm enjoying smelling Clean Warm Cotton.

If someone ever gave me a bottle of this, I don't think I'd wear it on my skin. I would use it mostly to scent my clothes, towels and bed linen. In other words, I enjoy the scent around me but not on me.

The most dominant notes to my nose in this composition tend to be pear, lilac and white musk. The blend is fairly linear, not that I mind anyway. In terms of lasting strength, Clean Warm Cotton will never let you down.

I don't use fabric softeners in my laundry. For one thing, they're essentially breaking down the fibers of your linens more rapidly. For a second, I'm allergic to common preservatives used in most liquid stuff even after a double rinse cycle.

I don't like it as a personal fragrance, but this could conceivably be used as a room/linen spray for anyone who has allergies like I do.

Clean have made many good scents. This is not my kind of scent, though - at all. I find it too synthetic and a bit strange. To me it has a harsh expression, especially In the beginning and even though it calms down an inch it stays synthetic all the way. I am usually a huge fan of citric scents but apparently it can be too much - even for me. Longevity is 1-2 hours and sillage is close to the skin.
I like the shape of Clean’s bottles. The simplicity suits the scents well.
143/365