Clean Men (2003)
by Clean

Smells cheap. Looks cheap. Price is anything but cheap. This is nothing but a marketing stunt or a practical joke; I half expected the Just for Laughs crew to appear when I was trying this on. I guess such a bad first impression was enough for me to disqualify CLEAN MEN from a fuller review. Next!

I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised by Clean Men (Clean). Usually such white-noise laundromat fragrances conform to the inane 'typical citrus-detergent accord-typical white musk' pyramid made so famous by Gendarme but Clean goes a step further and fleshes out the pyramid with interesting results.

Clean opens with tart grapfruit and a low key medicinal lavender note before blossoming into a heart of lime, raspberry and clove. Each of these heart notes has a very distinctive scent, but the way they are smoothly blended in Clean gives rise to a (very inviting) accord which reminds me of south asian supari mouth fresheners (made of fennel seeds, betels, and other aromatics). The lime keeps it fresh, the raspberry imparts just enough sweetness and the clove keeps things light and 'fresh'. The more i smell it the more i find the balance and interplay of these three notes to be excellent. The perfumer could have stopped here and finished things off with a banal woods note or cheap musk, but the drydown actually builds on the heart notes high. A cool, woody incense note and a light patchouli note ala L'Artisans Patchouli Patch end the Clean experience on a positive note.

Clean Men is more than a laundromat air freshener smell, and I find it more interesting than Father Gendarme or the trendy Prada Infusion Men. Heck Clean even smells like as if it sports better materials than those two uber famous poster boys. No, Clean Men isn't very innovative or awe inspiring in its notes clarity, but it is arguably the best of its genre. Gym rats everywhere should be made to wear Clean Men every day.

Rating: 7.75/10.0

I just adore this stuff! I think its because it reminds me of some Play Doh type stuff I had as a kid! Really clean and inoffensive. Maybe not for everyone but difficult to offend with this I would say! Certainly it is overpriced but can be found cheaper online!

Created for those who believe that sweating equates to being filthy, forgetting that it’s simply a natural bodily function. And what's the point in smelling like you've just got out of the shower when, chances are, you probably already had a shower BEFORE applying this onto your body?!

Perfume releases like Clean Men concern me greatly. It’s nothing more than another exercise in brainwashing the public into feeling further ashamed of their natural bodily odors (or anything that doesn’t smell Alpine fresh). Since when have humans needed to be ‘sanitised’ like a kitchen work surface?! What’s even more concerning is how a large proportion of the general public seem to have fallen for all this marketing (or political?) bullshit, preferring to smell like generic washing powder (i.e. horribly synthetic) rather than anything else with even the slightest sense of distinction or character.

If you own a bottle of Clean Men, teach it some irony: flush it down the drain and into the sewers.

[Original submission date: 22 July 2008]

I was expecting more with CLEAN MEN by Dlish. But finally I'm very disappointed. There's nothing extraordinary with it. First spray, citrus, grapefruit, lime start very strong, aggressive to my nose. It smells very artificial, sort of bubble gum and soap mixed together and i don't like it !
It reminds me some detergent odors you can find in some "discount stores" ( probably the use of the Patchouli smells ).
Drydown is not bad but this is not enough for me! If you want to feel "CLEAN", take a shower rather with an "almond" soap for example ! Sure you'll get a better result for less money than that "overpriced" soapy fragrance !

Berry and grapefruit are fine for the clean concept. Even clove (not my favorite note) can contribute a feeling of cleanliness. But when all of them are combined with lavender and olibanum and patchouli, the accord loses its claim to clean. This scent is okay but I don’t find it very original or exciting. It’s way too expensive for what it delivers and on top of all that, the longevity of Clean Men is pathetic.