Sunrinse Downy, Fresh Start, the list goes on..
I always loved the smell of the yellow sunrinse Downy, and would pester mama to buy it instead of her usual april fresh. Now I get Sauvitel morning sun, which is close, but not quite the same.
Then there was my favorite aunt, who used Fresh Start, it was so cool, the powder in a bottle, and smelled so good! Its no longer available locally, and from what I have read it doesn't clean anywhere near as well as it did back then.
Real Oxydol, my other aunt's detergent of choice. That stuff just smelled clean! And it got everything in her house spotless. (She didn't believe in lots of different cleaning products. She used Oxydol for laundry, floors, bathtub, walls, woodwork, you name it. The only other cleaning products I ever remember seeing in her house were Swan pink lotion dish liquid, and Clorox bleach. Of course, there was always Snuggle fabric softener, because she liked the bear, lol) I use Kroger powder detergent, the one that comes in a bucket, it looks the same, with the blue and green granules, and smells almost identical, but not quite.
Swan pink lotion dish liquid, it smelled like fresh roses, mama and all my aunts used it. I loved how the smell would follow them through the house for a bit after they did dishes. Now I buy Palmolive pink, its very close, but the smell is not as strong.
Spray'n'Wash, the real stuff, before Resolve got ahold of the company. Gramma always had a stick of it on the dryer to pretreat with, and my favorite aunt always kept the aerosol can to pretreat with. The new Resolve formula smells different, the sticks look like deodorant instead of the classic cylinder, and neither the stick nor the aerosol seem as strong as they used to be.
I guess what I really miss are the smells of my childhood. I can always find a product that cleans as well, but finding a product that gives the same smells which I associate with clean, home, and comfort, that's the hard part.
