Clean
Clean
303 votes
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
Bergamot and orange blossom dart across the skin with a zesty brightness, immediately tempered by honeysuckle's creamy sweetness. The contrast is arresting—citreous snap versus honeyed softness—before the composition settles into an odd sort of compromise.
Vanilla orchid and peony emerge, transforming the fragrance into something distinctly powdery-creamy rather than fresh. The sensual skin accord blooms here, lending an intimate, almost skin-like quality that borders on the olfactory equivalent of cashmere against bare shoulders. The composition now reads as a candied, floral second-skin rather than a minimalist clean scent.
Salted caramel and musk form the fragrance's most compelling phase, the salt cutting through the sweetness with savoury restraint. White cedarwood provides a dry, woody backdrop, though the projection by this stage is barely perceptible. What remains is a tender, intimate sweetness—more memory than presence.
Clean Reserve Skin is a fragrance that plays a dangerous game between restraint and indulgence, ultimately stumbling towards the latter. Richard Herpin has crafted something that wants desperately to be a second-skin scent—whisper-soft, barely-there—yet the honeyed heart refuses to comply, asserting itself with the persistence of someone who can't quite keep their voice down.
The opening promises minimalism: bergamot and orange blossom suggest a fresh, almost austere composition. But honeysuckle enters like an uninvited guest at a gallery opening, immediately sweetening the proposition. Within minutes, the "Sensual Skin Accord" makes its agenda clear, and this is where the fragrance reveals its true nature—not a clean skin fragrance in the clinical sense, but rather a sweetened, creamy interpretation of skin itself.
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