I have asthma too, allergic asthma....I know it's different...
You folk need to do not take everything too much as personal...and learn to read between lines...
Of course there're exception Louis, I'm glad such products exist for people like you...but I can tell you of people (most of all in the USA) that buy them because they simply like an unscented laundry...and that's the people I'm talking about..no people that have to do that for medical conditions...people that simply like plain laundry, no scent, not even a minimal scent...
Even plain ancient old school "home made" marseille soap used to smell more and better than certain modern laundry done with such free&clear or whatever stuff...
Maybe it's because you really have severe pack of asthma...but I gotta say that anyway laundry detergent and most of all smelling laundry more than detergent itself (unless you have strange habits like sniff them like cocaine) isn't at the top of the list of trigger between asthmatics, or it is? Not here, at least among the ones I know...
I heard that about personal parfume, deodorants, hairsprays, even kitchen odors and "kitchen smoke" but rarely (actually never) of detergents and or washed laundry...
Different situation is for people with skin allergies, or other kind of allergies, accordingly, that we're always talking about people with particular medical conditions, there're anyway out there several products with hipoallergenic scents, and one I loved so much was the last version of Arm & Hammer with hipoallergenic scent...
Talking of asthmatics:
The second laundromat in my town use to have autodosing detergent, and they have a nice persistent smell that last pretty long...I cannot imagine an asmatic like you laundering in there....
It must not be nice for you...
Anyway...
It's detergents we're talking about, not the last frangrance by Moschino that would give asthma and nausea even to a french w***e of the '700....
Your is quite a strange situation, most of all particular and not that common...
But as said, it was not meant for people like you, but almost everyone (and over here about everyone) would love fresh smelling laundry...
If it wasn't so...they would make most detergents unscented....
I hope I clarified....
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