Who Still Has the Smell of Clean?

[nmaineman36]

I use the Original scent Tide for the colors and Tide w/Bleach for the whites. Then I use Downy April fresh Liquid in the 2nd deep rinse. I rinse everything twice in the Maytag. By the time I do the second rinse my water is clear and the softener doesnt have to compete with the detergent scent. When the clothes come out of the dryer the smell to me is clean.
I do agree that the new scents that they have like the Tide Vanilla and stink smell makes me gag. The tenant that lives below Scott uses that plus the Downy version of the vanilla and its overkill. He will use the detergent and the liquid softener and then throw in a dryer sheet in the dryer of that scent. P U !!!! The scent makes me gag and one scent that I dont like is that tropical Downy. It will actually make me throw up if I smell it. Gag-O-Rama.

 

[cehalstead]

the smell of clean

I just bought a box of Save-A-Lot's Power Cycle powder. It smells great, good and clean, not perfumed. I can't comment on its long-term cleaning ability yet, but it did a good job on my diry work jeans....

and it's CHEAP....100 loads for $5.99.

 

[sudsmaster]

The freshest laundry smell I've experienced has been recently, from washing clothes in hot water with STPP and grated Ivory bar soap.

 

[exploder3211]

This is by far the worst smelling downy softner i have ever used in my life.. It gives me such a friggin headache.. I am going to return it to sams tommrow and get something that smells NORMAL... Phewww

 

[exploder3211]

That in conjunction with the ALL small mighty that i used, i had to re wash my cloths to rid them of the god awful perfumie paris hiltonish scents... Ughhhhh

Time for some nice Snuggle or some April Fresh Downy

 

[oxydolfan1]

Too bad they don't have the Downy Febreze Citrus one, which is at least interesting....

Downy's coasting on their laurels and their name. Some store brands are at least as good. I remember reading the webmaster Robert's post about buying unscented Downy, which I had NEVER done....I actually like to use that with heavily-scented detergents because they don't wipe the original fragrance away.

Also, Downy is obscenely expensive around here.

 

[sudsdudeshane]

Downy=Overrated!

Chad..

I agree with you totally about the Clean breeze Downy!..Tide also make a terrible version of clean breeze scent. I wish TPTB at P&G would wake up and return to the clean,fresh scents of the 70's and 80's.Quite frankly, Downy is a ripoff! Suavitel and Final Touch are much less expensive and just as good.

 

[exploder3211]

I should've down sized my pitcure.. LoL...

It still makes me sick to think of that smell... I don't what i'll swap it for yet, but we will see

Not fond of All small and mighty either rain scent....

 

[jasonl]

The arsenal

The (almost vintage) smell of clean.

 

[exploder3211]

It was promptly returned today for some Snuggle

 

[jasonl]

Bad to worse

The one fabric softener I'm highly allergic to is the Snuggle free and clear in the white bottle. I have never sneezed or coughed so much for anything else.

 

[exploder3211]

Mines the true Snuggles

 

[hoovermatic]

when I used a twin tub I often used soap flakes and they leave a gorgeous fresh and clean smell (in the best possible/traditional way) on fabric - especially towels and everything rinses wonderfully clear and easy and is SO soft. Highly recommended

 

[sudsmaster]

I rather like the scent of Kirkland fabric softener. It reminds me of some cologne.