Everyone loves the clean baby smell. I thought the baby got it from being freshly changed and perhaps cleaned and powdered. I thought that was enough. But then I stumbled across Johnson’s Baby Cologne.
JOHNSON’S® Baby Cologne
A fresh fragrance made just for babies
JOHNSON’S® Baby Cologne has a gentle, fresh fragrance with a pleasant combination of floral and citrus hints. It leaves your baby smelling clean and fresh. This clinically proven mild formula is alcohol free, making it just right for your baby’s delicate skin.
Gentle, fresh fragrance
Clinically proven mild and gentle
Alcohol free and gentle on skin
How to Use
To give your baby a fresh scent, pour a small amount of JOHNSON’S® Baby Cologne in the palm of your hand and gently apply to your baby’s skin.
When to Use
Use JOHNSON’S® Baby Cologne anytime you want to give your baby a clean, fresh scent.
Huh? I thought a clean baby came with a clean, fresh scent?? I won’t even get started on the multiple French companies that sell baby eau de toilette.
I remember seeing a comment from someone here that there is nothing quite like the smell of sleepy baby. Sometimes I just bury my face in my daughter’s neck and breathe deeply. Why spoil that perfection with some ridiculous chemicals!!!
Psst! I know an even cheaper and easier way to give your baby a clean, fresh scent. It’s called a BATH!
Sick and wrong, is my verdict, if also silly and harmless. IMO, one of the best, sweetest smells in the world is fresh clean baby (the back of a baby’s neck – mmmmm), and so the idea of squirting cologne on one is the worst sort of gilding the lily.
I never knew this hatred of baby cologne existed. Cuban babies are routinely perfumed, either with talcum powder, it is hot in the tropics, or with baby cologne which smells like violets (like this one) . It seems the cologne comes from Spain, so it may be a cultural thing, and since the spanish-speaking population of the US is growing I think you’ll be seeing more of this in times to come.
Another vote for babies smell best just the way they are, thanks. My sister used to tell me to smell my twins’ heads, and I was all, “Uhhh, OK” until one day I was holding one and had his lovely little fuzzy head next to my cheek, and I took a good sniff, and I suddenly got it–ahhhhhh, sweet baby smell! It’s something about their skin, maybe, I don’t know, but cologne would be completely unnecessary. But then, I’m not a big fan of adult cologne, either.
In my local Albertson’s they have an entire section devoted to hispanic baby care products. There is a very, very frightening amount of baby perfumes there. I am not brave enough to have tried to smell them, not since I heard how they really make baby oil.
F@ck Johnson’s. Three of my family members worked for them, but I will buy nothing, NOTHING from a company that puts lavendin oil in baby products and calls it lavender. Lavendin, for those who don’t know, is a known skin irritant and makes minor burns worse, unlike lavender essential oil. The only thing it has in common is the smell, and of course it’s cheaper, because it’s not therapeutically useful. Anyone who’d use it instead of lavender is a money-grubbing jerk who cares nothing for either babies’ health or the reputation of good herbal therapies.
Uhm… dunnow, one of the articles that I used to bring from Spain to the US for people who’d specifically asked for it was Nenuco baby cologne. Some of them used it themselves, not on the baby.
When we were kids, we used Nenuco same as we use perfums now as grown-ups, sparingly and on Big Days.
Sure, it’s demented. But how many people would consider this weird, then go wash their kid with the most fragrance-added, phthalate-assisted, long lasting scented baby wash, shampoo, and bubble bath, and then follow it up with the matching lotion? Generally, any fragrance is an added, unnecessary irritant. And they tend to come combined with dyes and plasticizers as well.
That is just nasty. I used unscented soaps and lotions (I didn’t use much lotion) on my infants. What purpose does this serve? Baby sweat does not smell.
I’ve never heard of baby perfume. How odd and, as above, gilding the lily.
It’s true that some baby washes/products are scented, but there’s always an unscented one right next to it, and that’s what I’ve always bought. I don’t like smelly stuff and always buy whatever doesn’t smell.
