To be utterly brassed off to open new Aways to find they are SCENTED!

[Oldisthenewblack]

I seem to recall another thread about this not long ago - maybe it's still going, I don't know. Anyway - opened a new pack of Always an hour ago, my only pack, only to find they were SCENTED. There was NOTHING on the pack to indicate this and I am SO pissed off! Due to period pain I'm not up to going out again to buy more and will have to do the old fashioned thing tonight and use cloths. I have ONE unscented one left to see me through tomorrow morning.

I am so annoyed about this. I have a Twitter account that I've never used - am even thinking of utilising that to rant about this. Not sure how to go about it as not sure about Twitter.....

There's no way on earth I'm whacking that next to my fanjo.

Bastards.

[hollinhurst84]

All for pads I think, can't see anyone has mentioned liners yet

[bananafish81]

*Liter = literally. If it was litres of blood no pad would suffice, and I'd know the D&C had definitely gone wrong somewhere!

[bananafish81]

Thanks hollinhurst. I shall investigate the pantliner selection in Boots and see if there's any without 'eau de minicab' fragrance!

[Feefeefs]

I have also switched to bodyform, I scented, cheaper and actually more comfortable I think. I long to have the courage to switch to a mooncup but can't quite get over the "ick" factor

[Andylion]

Do any mnetters who are not in the UK have this problem? I swear it's not a problem for me in Canada. I use Always pantyliners and Stayfree pads and I never have a problem finding unscented ones. The aisle at the drug store doesn't smell like anything other than drugstore.

[Andylion]

Also, one of you clever people should come up with a snappy hashtag and tweet about this to the company. I promise to retweet.

[hollinhurst84]

Liners
Carefree breathable fresh(!) have a laundry(!) scent
Carefree cotton liners have microfresh pearls so are probably scented
Carefree perfect fit are advertised and say unscented on pack

Bodyform classic liners seem to be unscented
Bodyform daily fresh - probably scented

Boots own brand do scented or unscented, both labelled on pack

Always dailies seem to be labelled with fresh scent or plain

[MrsJorahMormont]

Yep, I'm a long term pink Bodyform-er. Thank God they aren't scented.

[Angelika321]

Reading this thread had made me realise the cause of the thrush I've had recently. My last period I also resorted to using sudocreme on my bits as they were so sore.

I normally use a mooncup but my periods have been really unpredictable and it wasn't sterilised so I used an Always pad to keep me going. This was one I bought pre pregnancy and had been in the cupboard almost 3.5 years. It still stank!

[bananafish81]

Thanks hollinhurst - much appreciated

[AlpacaLypse]

Andylion this query has come up before on other threads - consensus has been that they're trial running it on EU before rolling it out world wide. Although no one know why, it's seriously pissing us lot off.

[cleaty]

For those who are paranoid about others knowing you are on your period - I would not normally have a clue, but I can smell this cheap perfume on women. If you are not the type of woman to wear perfume that smells like air fresheners, then yes I will guess you have your period.

[LookBackInAnger]

As I've posted before, here in Oz, apparently women only need up to "super" and so in frustration I finally got BF to post me a 6 three- month supply of tampons..and pads because they're so expensive here. It's appalling, when I've asked some friends here they all immediately have said "oh, but they did that because otherwise you get TSS".. so in the UK and US there are millions of women using the more absorbent versions of tampons and dropping like flies? My understanding is that It's actually because the market isn't big enough for them to bother having more than 3 kinds, and they would have smaller profits if they imported/sold 5 or 6 different kinds.

ANYWAY, when said package arrived (BFF is now super-BFF), the tampons were fantastic, but the Always was scented and I could smell it through all the boxing and packaging. I was horrified and felt slightly sick. The smell does not have good associations (puking as a child) ... Plus, as pp has said, thrush, sore bits, and feeling as if NOW everyone knows I'm dealing with the period from hell.

Having paid for them, and for the postage, I feel somehow as if I should struggle on, but suspect next month I'll just chuck them. Maybe I could eBay them?!

Can't imagine the mooncup working for flooding etc., but frankly it has to be worth a go. No idea if I've another 2 or 10 years of this and will try anything to avoid surgery. Cheers for the heads up.

[Icklepickle101]

I sent DH out to buy more maternity pads and he came home with these

They don't even smell nice, like very strong very cheap perfume. Just wrong.

[hollinhurst84]

LookBack - I have v heavy periods (copper coil) and the mooncup works for me
Might be worth looking at Meluna, they do different sizes and cheaper than mooncup
I flood with pads but if I stand up with a mooncup I don't get that feeling of "gush"

[LookBackInAnger]

I don't say this to pick on other pps, but with a glorious survey of just two pps, who said they liked the fresh smell, one said they were "paranoid" about smelling of period, and the other was worried about people knowing she was changing a pad.

So, my extremely well thought out conclusion is that it DOES play to the paranoia of those who feel that somehow their period is something that needs covering up/disguising at all costs.

I felt the same until I had children and lost all sense of pride/shame/care in anything cycle and body related, so I truly am not picking on those pps, but it struck me forcefully that this was the language they used about their own experiences.

I'd love to see an ad campaign that did something different. Based on caring for the woman, how comfortable and secure she feels, without needing to reference anyone else, and whether anyone else will/won't notice. If they do, so what? Nearly half the population menstruate (or have), and I don't think of myself as particularly fanatical, but really!

I need to breathe......

[LookBackInAnger]

hollin, my goodness, thank you, that gush on standing just feels me with dread these days - especially when I've been driving.. You know you sink into the seat a bit and then when you get up?

I'll look at that (I'm sure they do "overused/child pushing/falling apart size" ).

[luciole15]

I agree. They are utterly rank smelling. Can't describe it. Bought by mistake and have finally finished pack. Make periods 10x more miserable. Switched to Natracare.

The other day was getting weird waft in Supermarket. Woman was wearing winter clothes and thick coat and I still got knocked out by it. Took me a.while to work out what familiar, rank smell was! Why have they done it???!!

[bananafish81]

There was a twitter campaign a while back after a shitty femfresh which basically said 'ladies! You have stinky vaginas - buy our products you smelly wenches'

I'm fine with soap and water. And I don't use pantliners just when I'm on my period. My knickers don't smell of anything so I certainly don't need them reeking of cheap perfume

[bananafish81]

*shitty femfresh ad campaign

[LifeCrossRoad]

Always scented are discusting, I won't use any always now for fear they are scented. The smell is just vile. I had to use them again once during a misscarriage and DH came back with them not knowing they stunk, just made the whole thing worse.
It wasn't just the smell, but my god they made me itch.
Now I use tesco/sainsburys basics, like the 15p ones. Unscented. Bliss.

[hollinhurst84]

LookBack - here you go. Bit of blurb and then right at the bottom you can click size calculator. I think it gives you the capacity of each somewhere or if not Google will
http://www.me-luna.eu/epages/63898218.sf/enGB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/63898218/Categories/MeLunaInformationsseiten/sizeguide

[EveryoneElsie]

I've switched to Happy Shopper. They're brilliant.

[Andylion]

Alpaca, now you've got me worried. I don't want them to become the norm over here.