Laundry combination for lasting smell and compliments?

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Hi all,
Was just wondering what does everyone use for a long lasting and well complimented and noticed fresh laundry smell to their clothes, bedding towels etc? My routine gets heavily complimented and have gotten friends and family and colleagues onto at least parts of my routine depending on what they liked.
I'll go first:

Detergent: Persil colour protect (liquid) for coloured clothes. Surf tropical Lily (liquid) or sometimes Ariel original liquid for bedding towels etc with scoop of oxi any brand.

Softener: Lenor outdoorable - spring awakening
Scent beads: Lenor Spring awakening (only for clothes, sometimes towels, doesn't last long on my bedding and find it expensive enough as it is)

I dry everything on the maiden inside (sometimes dry my sheets outside) but drying clothes outside takes any smell out for me unless it's super sunny and warm.

oh and please keep it on topic... I am aware of the chemicals, luckily no one in my family has allergies. So if you don't like scented laundry, this one is not for you. Thanks.

tell me your go-to!

OP there's scented laundry and then there's overpowering artificially scented laundry. You are obviously in the latter category (your 'routine' involves multiple artificial scents) and you don't give two hoots about the environment or people around you (not your thankfully non allergy suffering family). Those who do suffer from allergies have enough to contend with in every day life without their symptoms being exacerbated by someone who wants to be complimented on their (fake) fresh laundry smell.

Fabric conditioner clogs your machine !

Until I looked them up I thought the pp was sarkily recommending some mediaeval laundry concoction to encourage a back to basics approach! Soapwort and lavender water rinse, anyone?

OP, I love fresh scented laundry too, my preferences is the blue Sainsbury's softener, which has a lovely fresh scent.

Only on Mumnet have I found people who don't like nice scents, and furthermore, think their preferences should be proritised over the preferences of the person doing the laundry and wearing the clothes!

My least favorite smells are those musty smells from unscented clothes dried too slowly, but presumably some people enjoy smelling like that, and thats their choice.

Never has my life been so empty that I needed compliments on my laundry routine.

A bit of a tangent but I can’t understand why any company would call themselves this? Tallow is rendered animal fat and ash well is ash. Not things I think of as smelling pleasant.

I want my clothes to smell of nothing - that way I know they're clean, and I hate the mixture of artificial scents caused by detergents, fabric softeners, shampoos, creams perfumes... By the time most people have dressed and got ready for the day they're carrying around multiple scents.

Are they really that bad? I quite like them. I have been considering finding a scent free wash and using something like Diptyque solids in the clothes drawers to scent that way. But no clue if it would actually work the way I envision.

So you are aware that what you are doing is anti-social, but you don’t want to be called out on it.

The sooner people realise the damage caused by microplastics the better.

Yes that is what I came on to say. Towels should not have fabric conditioner on them as it reduces their absorption.
I don’t think bedding is supposed to have fabric conditioner on either.
Any sports fabric should also
not have conditioner on it as it stops it wicking.

Aldi wash liquid, blue Comfort. Line dry.

Clothes smell fresh and clean, but not "fragranced" which I prefer as I wear a lovely subtle perfume that's bloody expensive and I'd rather people caught a light whiff of that than laundry products.

As a teacher it really is overpowering when people use highly perfumed laundry products. Child one smells strongly of purple Bold (hate that one), child next to them the overpowering gold Comfort, next child the red one, next child Lenor scent boosters, next child's parent uses tropical Surf and a bucket of yellow Lenor and so. And on. There's an overpowering artificial fragrance fug in the air.

It's quite nauseating in warm weather - and in winter when the heating is on. Not to mention headache inducing.

I do live in a hard water areas and do exactly the same, Aldi powder for minimal fragrance, no conditioner (even here it’’s not needed) and line dry as often as possible to get rid of any lingering fragrance.

I have never complimented anyone on their laundry fragrance, fortunately mostly you only notice it if you are in their house when it’s drying.

x-posted, I never thought of how awful it must be in a classroom, you poor thing. I remember when DS was in the infants a classmate took his jumper home by mistake and his parents kindly washed it before returning but we had to immediately wash it again to get rid of the fragrance.

I am continually agog at the bullshit inventions like "scent beads" and that grown intelligent adults buy them. I am waiting for someone from Unilever to admit it was all a big joke to see how gullible their customers are.

"What is so wrong about projecting a nice fresh smell into the world I seriously don't get it."

Because it's putting unnecessary chemicals into the air. When Tesco changed their perfectly serviceable bio colour powder to a new formulation and scent the boxes were so pungent I had to double bag them.

Not everyone wants their homes and clothes reeking of soap powder scents. I stopped using fabric conditioners, too, because the scent was overpowering and they aren't good for keeping towels soft, anyway.

As for the marketing of additional products to "keep the scent for longer" - bonkers.

If you think that the only two options are an artificial smell from a bottle; or "musty" then I have some big news for you about line dried laundry on a brisk summer's day.

Is it not a nod to the historical ingredients for soap making? Animal fat (tallow) and lye (derived from potash).

@LadySuzanneI know that but it still isn’t a pleasant image.

I’m finding that my laundry increasingly comes out of the washing machine with no scent at all, which I find puzzling, as it always used to. I’ve tried all kinds of products but to no avail. Although I really dislike really strong smelling laundry, it is a bit frustrating for it to smell of nothing. Or have I gone ‘ nose blind’ ? 🤔

I didn't say that, did I?

I stated my preferred and my least preferred laundry smells. I didn't say, or in any way imply there weren't other laundry smells, because of course there are.

I agree. They should be banned.

I also love scented laundry. I went into town today and the overriding smells were vomit, body odour and fried food - I'd much rather smell perfume and laundry scent.

Op if you like scent beads, try the scent liquid. Scent booster elixir I think it's called. So much better, longer lasting smell. Just put a capful in with your fabric conditioner

Jeez, this thread has been de-railed! I love the Fairy fabric conditioners - especially the new cherry blossom one. Smells fresh and clean and lasts well but it's not at all overpowering. I expect to be flamed though as apparently I shouldn't want my washing to smell lush 🤔