Even though I write about fragrance , I don’t necessarily like smelling like perfume, per se. That doesn’t mean, though, that I don’t want to smell good. In a perfect world, that would mean that the scent of body wash lasted for hours after a shower, or that my clothes eternally smelled like I just pulled them out of the dryer. But, as we all know, this is very much not a perfect world, and those wonderful soapy scents disappear in an instant. As a result, I've fallen head over heels for the clean-smelling perfumes.

Most of the time, these scents could also be categorized as “fresh perfumes” (if we’re getting technical), and typically feature notes like ambroxan and aldehyde (two synthetic compounds that smell, you guessed it, clean and fresh), as well as citrus and musk. They can b

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