Can a French mner enlighten me?

[MrsFogi]

What do French people use Eau de Cologne for? I keep seeing it (in particular, Bien Etre) French kitchens and bathrooms and think it is being used for cleaning? And if so, cleaning what?

well I wanna know too bump!

Perhaps post in Living Overseas? Bathrooms make sense as that's where you go to make yourself smell nicer but kitchens?

I reckon it's in kitchens for use on the laundry. I use Mont St Michel on bedlinen etc when ironing it, for example.
Sometimes I stick a capful in the wash.

That would make sense. Lots of French homes have washing machines in the bathrooms.

I have used it in the ironing - I get an orange one in carrefore, its cheaper than the crap fragrence water they sell in uk and far nicer smell.

I also use it as an everyday perfume

Clothes and you smell the same