To be completely unable to understand why anyone would want their dishes to smell of lemon

[AnathemaPulsifer]

Original scented rinse aid is out of stock, only lemon scented available. Often same problem with dishwasher tablets.

Why oh why would anyone want their dishes to smell of lemon? Yes, I know we’re all different but this one has me flummoxed.

Totally agree. It is now so difficult to buy dishwasher tablets that are NOT lemon-scented that I have resorted to buying online.

I hate the smell of lemon dishwasher tabs

But I think it came about because lemon can be used to cut through grease (and some of the lemon washing up liquids smell pretty nice), and then it became habit.

Bit like there's no particular reason for bog cleaner to smell of pine, but it's such a habit that next to nothing else is ever pine-scented

(Edited to correct what my autocorrect did - though a lemon scented hobbit might be fun to have in a kitchen)

It doesn’t make the plates smell of lemon. It makes the dishwasher smell of lemon.

I made the mistake of buying some washing up liquid when I was in M&S. It works well, but the scent is so strong it's sending me back to Fairy Liquid.

The dishes don't smell of it after they've dried though, or if they do you'd have to be taking a close big whiff of them which would be weird 😄

YANBU

Hate anything that smells of lemon 🤮

I can taste it on glasses and cups. It's horrible

Same

I agree, I avoid dishwasher tablets that smell of lemon. I'm sure they leave a taint that I can taste, and I don't like the smell.

Lemon dishwasher tablets horribly taint any plastic containers etc.

Pine, you might (or might not!) be interested to know, has antimicrobial and antifungal properties, and inhibits the growth of bacterial pathogens.

Lemon has natural germ killing and it never does smell of lemon anyway