(Nice!) Smelling Clothes/Laundry Question

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Nile wrote:

Hello astep70uk

Could it be that your nose is accustomed to the smell? It's similar to effect you get when you wear perfume. After a while you don't notice it but someone else will make the comment "Oh that smells lovely".

Personally, I buy washing powders that will get my clothes clean and I'm not bothered whether they lay down a perfume onto the fabric.

Brand new clothes on display in stores don't have a perfumed smell............yet most people love to wear brand new outfits.

When you have a new washing powder etc/perfume or whatever, your body will view it, the scent/product as foreign and it will remain alert to it, but once it is not considered foreign your body becomes accustomed to the smell and you are then not able to smell the product as much as your body doesn't see it as a danger/foreign. I have the same problems with perfumes, have a few and I alternate them after a month or so of wearing one, I will wear a different one and it smells like I just bought it new again as the body senses that it's foreign to what's normal.

Mrsbojangles_2

I like clothes to smell lovely and fresh too, especially bedding! I have for the past couple of weeks been mixing a box of bold (lavender & Cammomile) with a box of Smart price washing powder, plus the soda crystals, then tumble dry with half a tumble dry sheet (not Bounce) I got some called My Beautiful Laundry from Home Bargains 69p for about 40 sheets, great buy, I now have lovely soft static free clothes even after they have been tumble dried! The kids even mentioned how nice their bedding smelt the other day x