Do folks in Europe use the same detergent in top loaders (e.g. twin tub) as for front loader?

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Bold was one of the best fragrances ever for a modern laundry detergent until it changed from Bold 3, as it was known in the UK. Since then, it has never quite got it right and all these bizarre combinations of 'smells' they have now are a turn off - Sage and Onion/Bacardi and Coke etc etc. I think it is all about the fragrance and little to do with cleaning.
 
I have to say I agree, the current Ariel and Bold products in this market just smell way too strong.

I have tried Bold on a few occasions and I really can't see the attraction to it. The fragrance combinations are just odd and totally made-up marketing garble e.g. "White diamond and lotus flower" ... "Ruby Jasmine" etc etc

Meanwhile, Ariel has gone for a sort of punchy citrus / pine with a hint of cheap car air freshener!

It's not horrible, but it is kind of headache inducing, which isn't what I look for in a scent !

Daz smells quite nice, in an old-fashioned detergent style.

Persil smells fantastic. The powder is a kind of soft 'baby powder' type scent while the liquids have an artificial, but very pleasant aroma that is very hard to describe. It's nice though, which is the main thing!

Surf, which has become Unilever's special scented range, is quite nice. I prefer their aromas to Bold. They are somehow closer to actual essential oil type fragrances where as Bold has a definite hint of Fabreeze!
 
Thinking back to the 1960s/70s in the USA

I remember seeing directions on detergent boxes in the USA (e.g. Tide) that advised using half the normal amount of detergent if using a front loader. Westinghouse still sold FLs, though they had only a miniscule market share by that time, plus there were surviving machines of other makes (e.g. Bendix) in US homes. Typically the directions for Tide read "1/2 cup for top loading machines, 1/4 cup for front loading machines" (i.e. 200 ml or 100 ml). We did not have two varieties of Tide, because the market was >95% TL.

 

There used to be a low-sudsing detergent called Dash which emphasized its lower sudsing properties in advertisements. It was readily available in all supermarkets, was regularly seen on tv, and was not what I'd call a hard to find, specialty item. We never owned a FL, but I wonder if perhaps FL owners knew about Dash and gravitated toward it, rather than using half doses of Tide. If so, Dash would have served as our de facto "HE detergent" during those times.

 

Given the fact that both FL and TL are common in USA (FL sales now exceed TL sales, but if you count existing machines in US homes, TL are still in a majority though shrinking), we are in the same situation as UK was in the 1960s, with both varieties of detergent on the shelves of stores.

 

(as a kid growing up, I first began helping with laundry in secondary school. I was not allowed to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">operate </span>the washer, but did have the responsibility to remove clothes from washer to dryer, start the dryer, and then remove and fold clothes from dryer. My mother was fearful I would "ruin" the load if allowed to run the washer myself. On the other hand, I was<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> loading/unloading/operating</span> a KA dishwasher from age six!! I learned to operate a washer the night before I left for university! At any rate, I used either Tide or Arm&Hammer detergent during college, and I remember the Tide package having two dosing recommendations, for both TL and FL).

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Glad im not the only one whos finding Biological Ariel's scent way too much these days, but also finding its cleaning performance absolutely useless.

Anyone wanting a retro clean soapy smell might want to bag a box of old Tesco Bio before the new style box takes over shelves which I gather has a different scent.
found it cleans really well, make me wonder about Which's results thats for sure.

Jon bought some of the Pink Bold gel, now thats gorgeous too and not over powering or nasty. Shame its not hot on cleaning whites, but its great for coloureds.

Persil seems to be way ahead with scents and im finding the new tablets similar in scent to Persil Performance and the cleaning is nothing short of excellent.

Im a convert back to Persil,

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