Feedback on HeiQ Fresh?

Bump: Anyone have opinions on HeiQ Fresh?

Just bought a Tropic Comfort II hoodie with HeiQ Fresh. Will report after 14 days in it.

Have been looking at purchasing the same item. Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

The Polygiene treatment I’ve used previously seems to be better than other no-name antistink treatments but I’d agree only good for about a day, maybe two. Hoping HeiQ would be an improvement, but not expecting anything dramatically different.

So I wore the Tropic Comfort II with HeiQ Fresh on two 5-day backpacking trips with one travel/laundry day in between. Temps were 70-80 so I wore it every day, all day.

I made the mistake of treating with Permethrin, which made me unwilling to rinse it in stream or lake at the end of each day as I normally would. Consequently, it was only washed or rinsed one during this ten-day period, which makes my experience a fairly stern test of HeiQ Fresh.

I did not notice a strong odor in the pits until the end of Day 3, which I thought was pretty impressive. From there the stink increased a little and then leveled off until laundry day, when it definitely needed it. I think a merino top would have as well at that point.

I wore it again for the second 5-day leg and had similar experience. Certainly not stink free but much less smell than my wife’s OR Echo, and she is much less smelly than I.

My sense is that a merino blend is probably still superior, but I would take it again for all-day wear (wore merino T at night) during trips 5 days or less; if able to wash or rinse I would be OK with it for longer trips than that. So altogether pretty decent. I don’t have enough direct experience with Polygeine to compare well, but I can say that I would never consider taking my Polydry HE top with Polygeine on 5-day trip.