To start telling people that 'sprayed with febreeze' isn't the same as CLEAN..

[LizaTarbucksAuntie]

Why do people think it smells good? It smells like you've sprayed chemicals all over yourself....

If you insist in dousing yourself and your clothes with it, please keep a decent distance away from me in the supermarket. don't follow me around wafting your manky unclean chemical covered clothes at me.

Serves me right for going to a different supermarket to usual I suppose.

Ewwww who does that?.

But you do know how it works don't you?
It doesn't neutralise the smell.
It alters the smell receptors in your nose. So you can't smell the stinky smell.

What stinky smell? the smell of poor people in Morrisons?

I was wrong. But I'm sure it used to?

How Febreze Works

The cyclodextrin molecule sort of resembles a donut. When you spray Febreze, the water in the product partially dissolves the odor, allowing it to form a complex inside the 'hole' of the cyclodextrin donut shape. The stink molecule is still there, but it can't bind to your odor receptors, so you can't smell it. Depending on the type of Febreze you're using, the odor might simply be deactivated or it might be replaced with something nice-smelling, like a fruity or floral fragrance. As Febreze dries, more and more of the odor molecules bind to the cyclodextrin, lowering the concentration of the molecules in air and eliminating the odor. If water is added once again, the odor molecules are released, allowing them to be washed away and truly removed.
Some sources state that Febreze also contains zinc chloride, which would help to neutralize sulfur-containing odors (e.g., onions, rotten eggs) and might dull nasal receptor sensitivity to smell, but this compound is not listed in the ingredients (at least in the spray-on products).

Only on Mumsnet would you find the assumption that because I'm complaining about people in Morrisons it's because I wasn't doing my usual weekly shop in Harrods....

I used it at uni when I used to smoke - when my parents came up to see me I would furiously spray fabreeze on my carpet and curtains, I would polish everything and spray polish on my lightbulbs - the only thing that alerted them to my wayward smoking habit was my dsis during an argument about her own behaviour she shouted "yeah well maddening smokes" she dobbed me in! Little madam!