I just want a few more choices of unscented laundry detergent. Mr Neville is allergic to some perfumes, so we buy fragrance-free laundry detergent. We don’t get much choice of brand or size- there’s usually only one brand, in one size (generally the smallest) of fragrance-free detergent.
This thread smells too nice for the Pit. Let’s let it freshen up MPSIMS with its good earthy aromas.
OMG, I’ve been de-pitted.
I should have added to my OP, any cleaning product labeled “aroma therapy” can just suck me. I really don’t care if my hands smell like watermelon happy-berry. If something smells like I’d want to eat it, I should be able to eat it. Not clean with it.
Hah! I’ve got them beat at their own game. I already smell like whiskey. 
I’m with the OP though. We’ve currently got some mountain berry kool aid smelling dish soap that boggles my mind. I can understand, maybe, some floral scented hand soap for after using the bathroom or such, but I don’t want my plates and glasses smelling like Bath and Body Works.
On the back of the last bottle of fabric softener we got (Axe Mountain Sea Vanilla Breeze scented I think) there was some lovely advertising gibberish on the back about the scent was supposed to relax the harried laundry person with it’s great, mellow smell. Methinks someone has been huffing the fabric softener.
HA! this reminds me of a recent occurance in my house.
i recently purchased a Black & Decker Scum Buster and had fallen deeply and madly in love with it and i highly recommend that you go and get one; best $40 i’ve ever spent. i had spent an entire saturday on my hands and knees in my kitchen with the scum buster and a spray bottle filled with bleach and warm water. i’m a renter and my kitchen sports this dingy white sheet linoleum that is “textured” and looks like someone spent a month hammpering it and it never gets really clean deep in those little crevaces. WHY they opted to re-paint, re-carpet and re-tile everthing but the kitchen floor is beyond me.
i called my SO when i was done to announce that my kitchen floor was the cleanest it’s ever been but that now my apartment reeked of bleach. we had plans to spend the next few days at his place, as per our apartment-rotation sleep-over schedule, but we switched weeks just so he could come over and bask in the bleach smell. he’s weird.
I support the OP entirely. I always buy unscented whenever given the choice. Sorta reminds me of a Lewis Black rant about bottled water- “Deer Park? Fuck Deep Park! I don’t want a deer pissing and shitting in my water!”
I recently bought some fabric softener sheets that are perfumed (one of the damn “fresh breeze” type scents, very floral) because it was really cheap. Usually, I go with the unscented type of fabric softener.
Well, I must have been allergic to the perfume, because the day after putting the laundry away, my hands were red, swollen, itchy, and painful. But I didn’t realize what the problem was (“Hmm. Skin must be dry. Some moisturizer should fix it.”) and so I went ahead and put on the clothes.
… And wondered why I was breaking out in hives every damn day.
Solving this problem required re-washing ALL the clothes that were washed, plus a bunch of other clothes that had sat in close proximity with them. It was horrible. Worse, my boyfriend had to do the washing, because I was too itchy and miserable and doped up on benedryl to do -anything-, and he’s, erm, a bit slow getting around to things. So he blew off doing it for a whole weekend, and I had to suffer for another week while he was working. Fortunately, I was such a frustrated, irritable, pissy girlfriend for that entire week that there was sufficiant motivation for him to do it as SOON as he had a day off so he could get his sweet, cheerful girlfriend back
I’m all better now, but never again. I’m gonna avoid perfumed cleaning products from here on out.
What frustrates me the absolute most about these scents being in style, is that now stores won’t carry the old, regular scents anymore. 
The store I shop at does carry plainly scented dryer sheets, but not laundry soap, and it’s hard to get plain Dawn. (Let alone a deoderant that isn’t too pungent, I’ve had to go with a baby powder scented one. At least you can get plain handsoap here, and shampoos appear to be unaffected so far.) Their generic bleach is unscented at least, and for now at least they carry small bottles of plain Pine Sol. I guess they just don’t have the shelf space for the regular scents, and they believe the trendy scents will sell better? Fills me and Mr. Clawbane with “grrrr”.
I hate all those weird smelling-products. Lemon and pine, that’s all I want. I do like Febreeze, though.
Urgh- the worst is this nasty Dettol Neutra Air disinfectant/air freshener stuff. “Pure Air” my arse, it smells AWFUL!
Apart from that I use Cillit Bang (smells like chemicals), bleach, Cif Lemon (smells like Lemon) Dettol pine floor cleaner and Fairy Liquid Original (smells like Fairy Liquid).
Pine, lemon, bleach and ammonia smell like a clean house- “Pure Air”, “Mountain Fresh” and “Summer Rain” smell like you couldn’t be bothered to clean so you sprayed some air freshener about the place. Yuck.
I dunno, something romantic about the grunion spawn season…
Arm & Hammer makes a good fragrance free detergent, and it comes in big bottles.
Artifical fragrance and color do not get anything clean. I use perfume and dye-free cleaning products, and don’t understand why anyone would want anything else.
To the OP: Rock it.
I’ve taken to buying unscented everything, and resorting to handcrafted soap that specifies exactly what’s in it as opposed to ‘mountain fresh’ or ‘citrus like whoa’. (almond, oatmeal, orange/vanilla/clove, and so on)
And BPAL for when I want to rock the smelly stuff and smell like cool things that are not scary-floral or anything. (although my skin ATE the latest experiment. :eek: )
Exactly. To me, having a floor that smells desert-rain-fresh, but actually just smells sort of perfumey - just doesn’t cut it. It’s like I spilled some of my mom’s perfume on the floor, not cleaned it.
Agreed. And what is up with scented dishwasher soap? For some reason, the (on sale) Cascade dishwasher powder is now “cranberry splash”. So… now glass and ceramic are supposed to smell “fresh”? I didn’t know dishes were capable of smelling like anything. :rolleyes:
Nor should they, damnit. Maybe you’re supposed to have some hallucinatory “aroma therapy” experience while running dishes through your dishwasher.
If that’s the case, why not just make, “peyote mountain fresh” scent?
Not only that, if the needles are from a white pine, you’ll also be protecting yourself against scurvy 
I think levdrakon and I have like philosophy on cleaning products. I like Mister Clean for the floors. Why? Because it comes in a yellow-green color that looks like toxic waste. Something that looks like it will eat your insides if you drink it is bound to cut dirt better than something lavender scented. Isn’t it?
I have no idea what you’re talking about, but rock on!
Can I just pop into this thread to say “WTF is it with this for a brand name”?
Who the hell looks at something a bit grubby and thinks “This needs some Cillit Bang”? It sounds like some kind of extremely poncey cocktail or a porn star specialty move or whatever.
Domestos, Mr Muscle, Windolene, etc. sound like something cleaning-related but Cillit Fucking Bang and its bastard cousin Cif just sound like the product of a coke-added branding consultant having a Tourettes episode.
Do either of those actually mean anything, or are they just gibberish?