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...By asking my DH to sniff the sanitary pads?

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ToTheRegimentIWishIWasThere · 04/11/2019 12:01

He didn't sniff them, and came home with fucking scented ones.

I despise them, they stink like someone's sprayed febreeze in a butchers when you're wearing them. Also, they give me thrush.

I asked him to get me some from the shop, he was in there, specified that they needed to be non scented. Asked him to give the packet a quick sniff in the shop. He refused. I wasn't asking him to hold them to his face and inhale deeply, literally just a quick waft past his face.

I think he's being a massive fanny, he thinks I'm unreasonable and it would have been weird.

Who is being unreasonable?

(Iwouldn't mind but he didn't even read them, it literally says *these contain a perfumed "fresh" scent which will make your vulva sore after wearing them. Or words to that effect anyway.)

OP posts:
Magicpaintbrush · 04/11/2019 12:46

It could be worse - I asked my DH to pick my some sanitary pads while he was at the supermarket and he came home with a pack of incontinence pads by mistake. I laughed my arse off.

Lunafortheloveogod · 04/11/2019 12:48

Couldn’t you have told him the exact brand/packet that you usually buy?
That’s how I send dp, with a picture of the packet so if he can’t find them himself he can either try somewhere else or ask someone for these ones.. not umm fanny pads?

To be fair this is after he returned with teeny scented always panty liners.. the length of my bloody thumb.. i bleed like a waterfall for 7-9 days.. I’d be changing those buggers every two seconds.!

Bluntness100 · 04/11/2019 12:50

I think really as you're a grown up it's unreasonable not to keep a stock of sanitary protection in the house. I certainly wouldn't ask my husband to go out sniffing sanpro for me. He did you a favour. Say thanks. So they aren't the right ones, next time keep a stock in or go out yourself if it's such a big deal.

Honestly if my husband asked me to buy something for him, and I did, but mistakenly got the wrong thing and he abused me for it, it would be thr last time I got him anything.

JinglingHellsBells · 04/11/2019 12:57

IME it's impossible to tell if they are scented or not as they are all in plastic wrappers.

I've made many a mistake before buying scented ones partly because they don't label them 'scented' it's a euphemism like 'odour blocker' 'fresh pearls' or such nonsense.

You need to be specific over brands and the colour of the packaging.
IME the only truly perfume free are Always sensitive in the pink packet, Infinity and Lillets towels (the best.)

JinglingHellsBells · 04/11/2019 13:00

and...as OP said- buy your own! Surely as a grown woman with periods you can stock up with several packets and replace as needs be?

It's not as if you don't know you'll need some .

dementedpixie · 04/11/2019 13:00

You can smell the sanitary towel aisle when you get close. The plastic certainly doesn't contain the stench

Blindspot82 · 04/11/2019 13:00

YABU. I'm not being funny but if I saw a bloke in the store holding a pack of sanitary towels and smelling them I'd think he was a weirdo. It's not socially acceptable behaviour is it? That's like a woman sniffing a pack of man's boxers in full sight. He could have been asked to leave by security for doing something like this! I know it's unavoidable, sometimes you have to send your other half out to buy the necessaries, but I think it's probably good to try and buy your own when you can. I honestly don't blame him for not sniffing them.

SunshineCake · 04/11/2019 13:00

YANBU

DH and I were talking about periods and he said it was more odd for him to sniff the packs than me and I just told him to care more about me getting the pads I want than him feelings daft. I can't remember the last time he even did the proper food shop never mind picked up pads for me but I would be very surprised if he didn't sniff to check.

KitKat1985 · 04/11/2019 13:02

YABU. If I walked past a man sniffing sanitary towels in Tesco I'd definitely think they were a bit weird.

SunshineCake · 04/11/2019 13:03

@Blindspot82 you definitely aren't being funny you are being ridiculous. Most women now know the stupid manufacturers have started making scented pads and would barely register what a man was doing or if they did think good for him. Stop caring what strangers think and it really is time we badgered manufactures to stop with this shitty message that periods are disgusting and unnatural. The pads smell disgusting. Much worse than a bit of blood.

SchadenfiendeUnmortified · 04/11/2019 13:03

YABU for calling sex "favours"?

YABU for not recognising irony when you see it.

SchadenfiendeUnmortified · 04/11/2019 13:04

If I walked past a man sniffing sanitary towels in Tesco I'd definitely think they were a bit weird.

But now you will know it's just Regiment's DH.

SchadenfiendeUnmortified · 04/11/2019 13:05

My word - there's some aggression coming out on this thread!

Surely OP was being light-hearted when she posted.

BrendasUmbrella · 04/11/2019 13:06

They should make it obvious whether they're scented or unscented in very clear lettering. It's utter bullshit that a sanitary product that comes in contact with the vulva is doused in perfume. I've never smelt anyone's period blood in public but I have smelt those pads (and secretly wished the wearer's vagina the best of luck).

ThatMuppetShow · 04/11/2019 13:06

YABU

I wouldn't start sniffing any sanitary pads for anyone! You are being ridiculous, buy your own.

It's one thing to ask him to read the label and get something specific, but "sniffing?" FFS Hmm

JinglingHellsBells · 04/11/2019 13:06

The plastic certainly doesn't contain the stench

well it does in Waitrose!

Ive bought Always panty liners and had to chuck away as they were perfumed and the packaging didn't say so and I failed the sniff test- couldn't smell a thing.

Blindspot82 · 04/11/2019 13:08

@SunshineCake - it's not ridiculous to say that would be odd behaviour if you saw it. Do you go round sniffing intimate items in shops? If you do then you're even more ridiculous than me...…….

slipperywhensparticus · 04/11/2019 13:10

If I see a chap sniffing them in tescos I will think he really loves his wife

Gingerkittykat · 04/11/2019 13:13

To be fair, I've picked up the awful scented pads by accident, they don't say on the front of the pack they contain perfume that will make your fanny itch they say odour neutraliser or something stupid.

I agree, bodyform seems to be a safe brand to buy. I don't think Always night have a smell since I buy them on offer sometimes but maybe they have recently added perfume.

Does anyone actually like the scented pads? Someone must be buying them.

BrendasUmbrella · 04/11/2019 13:16

Does anyone actually like the scented pads? Someone must be buying them.

The women who have been brainwashed into thinking their vaginas stink if they don't naturally smell like a bunch of flowers and must be bombarded with chemicals every hour of the day.

M3lon · 04/11/2019 13:19

This is the absolute best thing about switching to washable pads....no sniffing suspiciously in the sanitary pad aisle.

Your DH should have done it. My DH would have done it, and he doesn't even like me very much....

labazsisgoingmad · 04/11/2019 13:21

to be honest they stink of perfume so much you would be able to smell them at 100 feet!

Filopastryface · 04/11/2019 13:23

By christ some of you lot are humourless, aren't you.

Chloe84 · 04/11/2019 13:23

Does no one else have a box of pads suited for any flow? The idea of having to run to the shops for emergency pads baffles me as I have about 10 different packs at any given time.

Storsteinen · 04/11/2019 13:23

I think ywbu to ask him to sniff them. I always sniff them and for some reason feel a little embarrassed doing so - I've had funny looks from other women before! He could have read the packet but it isn't always clear whether they are scented or not. I wish they would label them properly and clearly.
I have no idea why Always have not responded to women's complaints about these products. At this rate we're going to end up with all brands and all products scented as other companies copy Always.
This gives me the rage actually - especially as Always ignored thousands of complaints but a handful of people complained about the venus symbol on the packaging and it was removed straightaway.
If they can do that so quickly then they can start to label their products properly and they can produce more unscented products.

I haven't bought them for a year now and am using an own brand product (which unfortunately does not absorb the blood as well as Always but at least it doesn't stink) from a drugstore type shop. I'm based in Europe.

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