Laundromat Demeter Fragrance Library 2000 Cologne

Ooooh yes! As gently hinted in the title, doing laundry is definitely not one of my favorite household activities. In itself, this process wouldn’t be so bad, after all, it’s easy once you finally realize that you should sort the laundry and throw it in the washing machine according to type, like whites, colors, only black or dark clothing, etc.

And when you also know how the washing machine works with the different settings, washing laundry becomes a breeze. No no, I’m talking about what comes AFTER that… clean, freshly scented laundry… just waiting… to be ironed! Oooohhaaargggh! I really hate this step. Some say that you actually don’t need to iron, but I just like it when at least T-shirts and shirts are neatly pressed, yet I can never manage to make it look good or it takes a looooot of effort, which takes a looooong time to iron... after which, of course, you feel even less motivated... and you can only finish the ironing with the worst curses!

So,… I bet a scent that smells like fresh laundry will appeal to most here, especially the ladies, right? Therefore, today I’m commenting on Demeter's Laundromat, which translates to "Laundry Salon"!

**The Scent:**
The beginning is somehow chemically intense and smells more like a cleaning product than laundry detergent. This impression initially persists, although the scent gradually takes on a slightly sweet note. Due to the chemical note, the scent comes across as extremely synthetic.
Over time, however, you actually get an impression of fresh laundry. Especially when the notes that smell of cleaning products fade away and the scent takes on a softer, gentler note.
However, the scent remains synthetic, as you can still occasionally smell this note (and sometimes even faintly the cleaning products). I find that most of the scent, especially in the base, actually smells more like the detergent itself than like freshly washed laundry, meaning you perceive the scent that wafts out when you open the box of detergent, which is not unpleasant, but at least smells a little different from the washed laundry itself. The scent certainly conveys a feeling of cleanliness, as one would expect!

**The Sillage and Longevity:**
The sillage is actually weak, so it won’t project much to others.
The longevity is also short-lived and is hardly detectable after two or three hours.

**The Bottle:**
The bottle is rectangular and has a large label on the front that is almost overflowing with text. As usual, you see a stripe (this time light blue) with the name of the scent on the label. As usual, the bottle is purely functional and thus not beautiful :D

Hmm, so I must say that at first I thought the scent was totally off, as it didn’t smell like laundry at all. The cleaning product-like note (not to be confused with laundry detergent) can quickly be off-putting. But if you give the scent a few minutes to unfold, it starts to smell like fresh laundry. Or rather like laundry detergent.

However, a synthetic, sometimes even cleaning product-scented aftertaste remains, which gradually weakens. Later, this note is not so strong, so it shouldn't really be bothersome. It doesn’t smell like 100% fresh laundry; it smells more like a mix of fresh laundry and even more like the actual detergent itself, which brings it closer to the concept of a laundromat, and the scent is olfactorily successful in terms of the theme.

Anyone who enjoys a certain feeling of cleanliness in scents should definitely give this one a try. But if it’s about fresh laundry or the feeling of it in general, especially if it should smell a bit more perfumed, I would recommend other scents, like Softly by Jil Sander, Warm Cotton by Clean, Infusion d’Homme by Prada, etc…

* sigh *… soon I’ll have to do laundry again… and the worst part is that my cat always hides behind the washing machine and doesn’t want to come out for hours… what a nuisance he can be sometimes! :D