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Fresh & clean fragrances

Airy, watery or soapy scents associated with a clean character.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

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212 Men NYC Eau de Toilette

Carolina Herrera — One wearer smelled it on a well-groomed colleague and ordered a bottle, another has worn it for seventeen years, and a third hears New York nightlife from before social media.

4711 Original Eau de Cologne

4711 — For many reviewers this is a brief pleasure: bright, slightly bitter citrus peel, dry herbs and a clean orange-blossom thread, sitting close to the skin and fading quickly..

5th Avenue Eau de Parfum

Elizabeth Arden — Lilac, lily of the valley and linden blossom, clean as a fresh white shirt: a polished 1990s floral that one owner kept for a conservative office and another traced, on a dog walk, to a woman of 84.

A Drop d'Issey Eau de Parfum

Issey Miyake Parfums — Soft in projection, wearers often find, and anywhere from short to long in duration: creamy almond milk, lilac and rose on a powdery vanilla..

Acqua di Gio Eau de Toilette

Giorgio Armani — Fresh and woody overall, in wearers' words: a bright, slightly sharp marine opening with bergamot, then a dry cedar background..

Amazing Grace Eau de Toilette

Philosophy — Clean laundry and soap in a bottle: a soft, powdery floral that reads as freshly showered, quiet enough for a library and unlikely to offend anyone.

Amber Perfume Oil

Nemat — More clean musk than amber: sun-warmed cotton and freshly washed skin with a faint sweetness, worn close and often layered under other scents.

Be Delicious Eau de Parfum

DKNY — Crisp green apple and cucumber with grapefruit, then clean magnolia and muguet, drying to a powdery finish of pale woods, amber and musk.

Blackbird Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Ripe blackberry with dry grass, fir balsam and resinous cedar.

BOSS Bottled Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — Simply the office fragrance, to one 2012 reviewer, and one wearer's colleague asked who smelled so pleasantly of fabric softener: baked apple and cinnamon on woods and vanilla, threaded with geranium.

BOSS Bottled Infinite Eau de Parfum

Hugo Boss — Green apple opens it, cut with cinnamon and mandarin, before lavender, rosemary and an olive-wood dryness carry it to a scrubbed finish that owner after owner names shower gel, some in praise and some with a shrug.

Breath of God Perfume

Lush — Two perfumes in one bottle, and wearers can feel the seam: cold air, melon and citrus drifting over temple smoke and sandalwood.

Bright Crystal Eau de Toilette

Versace — Tart rather than sugary, pomegranate and yuzu sit on an icy, watery lotus: to one fan, an iced floral lemonade on a hot day.

Calyx Eau de Parfum

Clinique — Tart grapefruit and guava, then clean rose and neroli; in wearers' telling, green leaves and oakmoss leave the finish damp and leafy..

Carnal Flower Eau de Parfum

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Tuberose front and centre, with a cool, green eucalyptus-and-melon opening.

Champaca Parfum

Ormonde Jayne — Moderate, close wear is the usual report for this creamy champaca and freesia on warm, starchy rice, freshened by green tea and bamboo..

Chrome Eau de Toilette

Azzaro — Bright citrus, cool metal and mineral water, then clean musk and a dry tea-and-wood character that some wearers compare to freshly washed linen..

CK One Eau de Toilette

Calvin Klein — Clean in the literal sense: wearers describe citrus and green tea over a soapy musk, the scent of having just showered.

Classic Warm Cotton

CLEAN Beauty Collective — Freshly dried laundry, as reviewers keep putting it, built from bright lemon, cotton and a marine note on warm musk.

Cool Water Eau de Toilette

Davidoff — Still the cleanest thing to wear on a hot day, to its owners, this is the blue aquatic that set the template: mint, lavender and a salty, ozonic splash on musk.

Cool Water Parfum

Davidoff — Pink pepper opens it, Haitian vetiver runs the middle and sandalwood closes: a Cool Water in name that owner after owner says has little to do with the original, spicier and sweeter, nearer Sauvage or Invictus than the 1988 aquatic.

Cool Water Woman Eau de Toilette

Davidoff — Cold, sharp and fruity, to the wearer who made it their first love; to another, an icy gulp of water on a summer day, or what the Windows XP hills would smell like.

Cristalle Eau de Toilette

Chanel — Sharp citrus and cool, green hyacinth with jasmine beneath, turning close and transparent as it goes on, in many wearers' experience..

Curve for Men Eau de Cologne

Liz Claiborne — First worn by many as schoolboys, it was a bargain-shelf compliment-getter of the late 1990s and 2000s, and one fan remembers a poor man's pineapple scent that got there before Creed: pineapple and bergamot on green, peppery herbs, drying to a soft woody musk.

Daisy Eau de Toilette

Marc Jacobs — Staying close and lasting a few hours, by reviewers' general account, this is light wild berries and white violet on soft sandalwood..

Déclaration Eau de Toilette

Cartier — Cumin gives it a warm edge that divides people, sensual skin to some and stale clothing to others; around it, as wearers tell it, sit cool green cardamom and bone-dry bitter orange on cedar.

Dom Rosa Eau de Parfum

Liquides Imaginaires — Rosé in a glass: wearers describe fizzing grapefruit and pear, a dry rose and something like chalky vineyard soil, closer to a wine bar than a flower shop.

Drakkar Noir Eau de Toilette

Guy Laroche — The fougère a generation of men wore for going out: lavender and aromatic herbs on a dark barbershop base.

Dune

Dior — Dry mineral air, sea breeze and a faint hay-like sweetness, likened by reviewers to pebbles, driftwood and dust.

En Passant

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Wet lilac and cucumber with a warm, dough-like accent.

Eros Eau de Toilette

Versace — Subtle it is not, for many wearers, who describe strong projection and long wear from its mint and sweet apple on cedar, vetiver and vanilla..

Eternity for Women Eau de Parfum

Calvin Klein — Lily of the valley, carnation and a sprig of sage, scrubbed so clean that wearers keep reaching for the laundry: detergent, soap, a crisp white shirt.

Explorer Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Fresh bergamot, pepper and a smoky, woody ambroxan base, with no pineapple in it.

Explorer Platinum Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Violet leaf leads, green and faintly metallic, over clary sage and a cedar that several owners call creamy rather than dry; a coconut-water sweetness turns up again and again, though no coconut is listed.

Fathom V

BeauFort London — Cold green stems, pond water and lilies: a florist's refrigerator, in the comparison reviewers reach for most often.

Fig-Tea Eau de Toilette

Nicolaï — Osmanthus, orange and green tea with an apricot-like davana accent, on a soft guaiac-and-amber background.

Flower by Kenzo

Kenzo — Lipstick and face powder are the comparisons that come up for this powdery violet and rose on vanilla.

Flowerbomb Eau de Parfum

Viktor&Rolf — Dense and sweet, this floral sits on an earthy, patchouli-like background, and most reports describe substantial projection and long wear..

Ganymede Eau de Parfum

Marc-Antoine Barrois — The whole appeal for some and a dentist's surgery for others, its cool, clinical character comes from mandarin, then something metallic, mineral and paper-like, above soft leather and immortelle.

Green Tea Scent Spray

Elizabeth Arden — Lemon and bergamot, then leafy green tea with a celery-seed accent.

Happy Eau de Parfum

Clinique — Fresh, clean and light, and the kind of scent strangers stop you to ask about: owners who have worn it for decades tell of colleagues and students wanting the name.

Happy for Men Eau de Toilette

Clinique — Clinique brings out the lemon press and the mandarin peeler, as one reviewer puts it: a bright citrus with a herbal, marine cool, one wearer's first fragrance friend and another's turn-of-the-millennium gift.

HUGO Man Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — For several wearers this was the first real aftershave, the canteen-shaped flask of 1990s school discos, and an owner in their late fifties still wears it.

Invictus Eau de Toilette

Rabanne — Grapefruit and a salty marine accord sweetened almost to bubblegum: a teenage signature of the early 2010s, worn to the club, the office and the gym alike.

J'adore Eau de Parfum

Dior — The house describes a jasmine-centred floral with warm ylang-ylang, Damascus rose and fruity facets of jasmine grandiflorum and jasmine sambac.

Le Beau Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — Coconut flakes first, one wearer writes, then a sweet, creamy coconut and tonka that puts two others in mind of a Raffaello praline and a third of a piña colada, sunscreen and all, which does not bother them.

Legend Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Two comparisons come up again and again in the reports: a hot shower, and Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce.

Legend Eau de Toilette

Montblanc — Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce is the comparison several wearers reach for: citrus and lavender, a slim thread of pineapple, a soft tonka dry-down and, to one reviewer, a trace of Montblanc's own fountain-pen ink.

Light Blue Eau de Toilette

Dolce&Gabbana — Crisp and fresh is how wearers put it: sharp lemon and green apple against a light cedar background..

Mûre et Musc Eau de Toilette

L'Artisan Parfumeur — Picked off the bush, leaf and thorn included, the blackberry sits on a clean white musk, though for some the fruit barely shows and it wears as fresh laundry.

N°5 Eau de Parfum

Chanel — This is the fuller 1986 Eau de Parfum, and wearers speak of it on its own terms: the aldehydic sparkle first, then rose, jasmine and ylang-ylang settling over a soft vanilla warmth.

Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum

Juliette Has a Gun — A single molecule, and it behaves like one: clean, faintly woody, musky skin that some wear straight out of the shower and others layer under everything.

Passage d'Enfer

L'Artisan Parfumeur — Cool incense and white lily with an impression of stone.

Pleasures Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Cut grass and dewy white flowers, lily, peony and lilac, as clean as an expensive soap: the 1990s spring floral that many have worn for decades and still get asked about.

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Polo Blue Eau de Toilette

Ralph Lauren — Melon and a great deal of cucumber, then basil, sage and a soft suede: a just-showered blue that one owner has reached for three summers running and another, who first wore it in high school, has bought again.

Pure Grace Eau de Toilette

Philosophy — Soap and water, mostly: laundry off the line to one wearer, a white T-shirt to another, Nivea cream out of the cold blue tin to a third.

Sécrétions Magnifiques Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Reactions divide sharply to its salty, metallic and milky accords, sometimes likened to blood, set on iris and sandalwood; what many reviewers agree on is that it projects hard and does not let go..

Sel Marin Eau de Parfum

Heeley — Salt, lemon and wet algae with a dry mineral character; the vivid opening often narrows to a close vetiver, wearers say..

Snowy Owl Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — Cold rather than sweet: wearers describe snow, cold stone, chalky iris and the water left in a vase, with mint and a little coconut lotion at the edges.

Steamed Rainbow

D.S. & Durga — Humid pavement, water and a faint plastic edge that wearers liken to pool floats or bubble solution.

Sunflowers Eau de Toilette

Elizabeth Arden — Melon and peach sit at the centre of almost every report, lifted by bergamot and softened into a clean, sunlit floral.

The Ghost in the Shell Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Soft as it is, some wearers find it long-lasting: yuzu and a milky skin accord that leaves synthetic, plastic or cool metallic impressions, resting on moss and amber woods..

Thunderstorm Cologne Spray

Demeter Fragrance Library — Demeter describes earth and plant oils in humid air around a summer thunderstorm.

Tom Yum Eau de Parfum

Parfum Prissana — Lime leaf, lemongrass and galangal with jasmine and coriander: the vivid herbal-citrus opening gives way to a woody patchouli drydown, with generally moderate wear, reviewers say..

Tommy Eau de Toilette

Tommy Hilfiger — Fresh-washed, the scent of 1990s high-school corridors and, to one reviewer, a well-groomed tennis player: spearmint and bergamot, green apple, cranberry and a cotton-soft drydown.

Tommy Girl Eau de Toilette

Tommy Hilfiger — Bright citrus, astringent for the first minutes: mandarin, grapefruit and mint up front, a passing breath of rose, and hours later something like a freshly laundered jumper out of a cedar drawer.

Vacation Eau de Toilette

Vacation — It smells like sunscreen, and that is the point: coconut, banana and a squeeze of pineapple over chlorinated water and warm vinyl.

Voyage Eau de Toilette

Nautica — From college classes to job interviews, this is the budget summer scent wearers throw on without thinking: green apple and cucumber on a salty, watery lotus.

White Linen Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Sheets drying in the sun, or a bar of good white soap: sparkling aldehydes on rose, lily of the valley and orris, drying to vetiver and moss.

White Musk Eau de Toilette

The Body Shop — Clean, soft musk with a powdery floral lift, comforting rather than loud: owners of thirty years call it uplifting and still collect compliments, and one layers it under everything else.

White Tea Eau de Toilette

Elizabeth Arden — If neutral had a scent, one wearer says, this would be it: creamy tea and a clean sea breeze settling into soft musk, as easy at the office as at bedtime.

Wood Sage & Sea Salt Cologne

Jo Malone London — A windswept coastal walk rather than a beach, as owners describe it: salt air and dry sage on a mineral, driftwood-like base.

You Eau de Parfum

Glossier — Pink pepper, powdery iris and a warm, faintly sweet musk that reads like skin.