This one is a divisive clean scent, with some raving about its fresh, invigorating qualities while others find it too sharp, too floral, or unpleasantly reminiscent of cleaning products. It's an "M-F-K-style" clean that will either earn you compliments or comparisons to toilet cleaner.

Across The Universe follows Maison Francis Kurkdjian's Aqua Universalis Forte's lemon-neroli-musk formula closely at the top, but the white floral heart feels thinner and the clean musk base fades noticeably sooner than the original's soap-clean, long-wearing signature.