Best smelling washing powder

[grwasher_expert]

Which brand of washing powder do you think that has the best fragrance?
Between greek detergents I believe that Skip active clean smells the best.Ariel and Dixan also smell sympathetically,but Skip has a special fragrance that smells like cleanliness and freshness to me and clothes are smelling fresh for a long time after being washed.Other powders(Omo,Neo-mat,Essex etc.) have very faint smell that almost disappears until the end of wash.Which powder do you think that is the best smelling one of your country?Do you prefer an intense or a more discreet aroma?

 

[liamy1]

Best scent

Really hard for me to pick, as I like a few.

Here in the UK, would say Persil does have the strongest scent and it is a distinctive smell. I like the non-bio liquid and capsule smell, along with the colour capsule smell.

I like the smell of Ariel too, like their 3in1 pods scent the most probably.

Also partial to a bit of Bold; although they have 5 or 6 different scents at the moment, it has a distinct base smell and I can always tell a Bold smell regardless which scent has been used.

Usually like quite a strong smell on laundry, but do have periods where it can really get to me, so tone it down for a bit.

 

[twinniefan]

Aldi Almat

We tried Aldi's Almat powder recently, the Arctic Breeze fragrance and I find it nice and light and not overpowering.
It also dissolves quite well, not had any problems with powder streaks.

 

[dixan]

I don't like heavy scented powders. The perfect powder for me is the one that leaves no scent after drying.
The perfume compositions, used in detergents, are the cheapest possible. I don't want them on my clothes and in contact with my skin. You know that these perfumes are the major allergens. Not enzymes, perfumes.

 

[paulc]

dixan

I'm in agreement with you regarding synthetic scents used in laundry and cleaning products, I prefer a "clean" smell rather than something overpowering.

Anyway, my current favourite smelling detergent is Splosh camomile and lavender. It's a concentrated formula that comes in a sachet. You refill the self dosing bottle and once you have four empty sachets you post them back to the company to be recycled. It's a great idea and really cuts down on waste. The detergent is superb and contains five enzymes. The scent, isn't overpowering , you're only left with a slight hint after laundry is dried. They also do a cottonflower version which smells quite "summery" .

 

[grwasher_expert]

Splosh

Interesting.What company produces it?Is it available only in Scotland or it can be found in other countries too?Can you find it in supermarkets or it is sold only by post?

 

[paulc]

Splosh

Only available in the U.K. Via post at the moment as far as I know. Here's a link to their website.

http://https//www.splosh.com/#2

 

[aquacycle]

Shockingly, I actually really like the scents of some of the cheap detergents. Easy & Sainsburys own both smell great, although the former is piss poor at washing

 

[aquacycle]

I do agree with Skip Active clean. It smells amazing.

 

[hoovermatic]

Easy and Skip

Glad I read your comment about Easy - I ALMOST bought some the other day! Poundland regularly have Skip but in smallish boxes and I have tried it and really like it - the performance and the smell. I suppose one of my fave fragrances is Daz and blue Bold but if I could, I would bring back the smell of Drive from the 1970's!

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUkFpeQPFu4

 

[paulc]

Oh, if we're going for retro smells

Wisk and Persil bio liquid when they were first on the UK market are still my all time favourite detergent smells.

 

[hoover8pulse]

Ariel powder has a nice smell, quite a bit like the Essential powder. What I've noticed though, is using it with the new look Lenor, at the end of the wash there is very little to no scent of Ariel on the clothes at all, you can only smell the Lenor which is a lot different to using previous Lenor which you struggled to smell because of the Ariel. So it seems Lenor now tames the Ariel scent a lot which is a really nice change.

 

[grwasher_expert]

Was Wisk ever sold in the UK?I thought it was an exclusively american brand.Speaking of american detergents,I have a great curiosity how american Tide powder smells.Does it smell any like our Ariel or it has a completely different perfume cocktail?Are generally american compact powders more fragrant or more discreet than european ones?

 

[liamy1]

Wisk

Yes Wisk was sold in the UK, back in the mid-80's.

If you go on the Laundry Lab on youtube, there are some adverts for it (linked Laundry Lab below).

USA Tide smells absolutely stunning (it is one of my faves, but too cost prohibitive to buy all the time).

It doesn't smell anything like Ariel.

It's a hard scent to describe, it's slightly sweet - but not overly so. It had fallen out of grace with many US folk though, as it is no longer the original scent they grew up with.

I like the whole Tide line; Used Original scent, Clean Breeze scent, Mountain Spring Scent in the powders. Original and CB in the liquid and Alpine Breeze in the Pods.

However, the best smelling US detergent is HANDS DOWN - Gain Original Scent - love the stuff, have 2 massive jugs of it.

American's usually call for milder scented laundry products than Europeans, a lot actually like no scent, hence the various "free and clear" lines, that you almost NEVER see in Europe.

The Laundry Lab channel on YT is great, he uploads adverts for laundry products in the UK, I think he is on here too. Click on the Wisk playlist, they are the adverts for UK Wisk.

http://https//www.youtube.com/user/Hasszanussi/playlists

 

[rapunzel]

I've always liked the traditional ColdPower scent. However, Costco's Kirkland laundry powdered detergent is nice too. It isn't heavily scented, but has a fresh, clean smell to it. I also use it to wipe my tiled floors. Aldi's Almat is okay too and I don't mind their Trimat detergent either. Most other detergents smell too strong for my liking and I don't want my clothes to reek of Frangipani or Honeysuckle with Vanilla etc. - it's too much for my olfactories. Softly for woolens and other delicate fabrics is also quite pleasant. For years I've desisted from using dryer sheets and fabric softener. Recently I used Ajax laundry liquid, which was quite nice and didn't leave clothes too heavily scented.

 

[aquacycle]

Wisk

Wasn't Wisk the first liquid detergent available in the UK? It wasn't much good either from what I know.

 

[paulc]

Wisk

Was the first liquid detergent in the U.K. , it smelled lovely but it wasn't good at cleaning. Persil bio liquid performed much better.

As I've mentioned before, my mum used to be a tester for Lever Bros, she was given Wisk cold wash liquid to test, that was so awful it never made it onto the shelves.

 

[gyrafoam]

Dixan would be my first choice.

 

[spiraclean]

Really do like the Sainsbury's own brand powder, this has now become my daily driver. Rather than trying to smell of anything exotic, it just has a straightforward detergent-like scent, which in itself is a nice change from the norm. And despite being exactly half the cost of Ariel, everything still comes out equally as clean and white. The only real difference I've noticed is that it's less apt to oversudsing, and rinses out more easily.

Another product I like, that often gets overlooked, is Bio Tex. While it has always been marketed as a stain removal and soaking powder, it is basically just a bleach-free triple enzyme detergent, not much different to any regular colour care powder. That sort of makes it redundant now, but I still use it because it does have a very retro, clean and soapy scent.