Probably TOTALLY off base here, but are you sure it’s the clothes? Is it a particularly sweet smell? Ever been tested for diabetes? Sometimes people with out of control diabetes can smell off. Just a thought.
Must be your cat; I don’t use bleach. I suppose it could be my cat, but he’s declawed and the holes are really too close together to correspond to his front teeth. He’s not even really a biter, so unless he sneaks into my closet specifically to punch holes in my clothes, I’d have a hard time blaming him.
As for moths, unless they’ve developed the aesthetic sensibilities necessary to poke dozens or sets of holes the exact same size and distance apart over a matter of months, then I don’t see that as a viable explanation. Of course, if they have, it means they’re probably now too big a match for the cat, who usually dispatches them for me.
Just what I need, a healthy does of paranoia. 
Nah, I am pretty sure I am not diabetic. The smell isn’t particularly sweet and it is something that gets worse when the clothes have been washed. You know how people in fabric softener commercials bury their nose into a shirt that just came out of the dryer, inhale deeply, and then say “Ahhhh” like their clothes smell fantastic? When you do that to my clothes instead of saying, “Ahhh” you say, “What the hell?”
My money is on the detergent or the laundromat itself being the culprit, but if I make the necessary changes and the smell persists I will keep the diabetes check in mind.
Tide makes me itchy so I never use it. If I did use it, and they changed their fragrance to smell like a deodorant tampon, I would cease using it immediately. I particularly like Wisk paired with Snuggle fabric softener.
How would you check under the washer drum? I used to have this problem (clothes smelled kinda cheesy, and I didn’t–it was definitely a laundry problem). I never did figure out what caused it, and then we moved, so the problem went away.
Step 1) Stink up pbbth’s clothes
Step 2) ???
Step 3) Profit!
Maybe the commercial dryer is too hot. I had a home dryer where one of the thermostats went out, and the clothes roasted. They had a burnt soap smell to them.
Look for an allergen free soap, they have no dyes or scents in them. Also, make sure you read the label and don’t use too much soap. Maybe it’s possible that you could be using too much soap and it’s not getting all rinsed out of the clothes, then when you dry them the heat gives it a burnt soap smell.
I have determined that it can’t be the dryer because even clothes that ran through the washer but were then hung to dry still have this smell. When I walk through the doorway where those clothes are hanging it is like being his in the face with a wall of smell, despite the fact that they are dry and clean. I am going to pack up a small load of freshly washed clothes and go rewash them with a different detergent today to see if it is caused by my detergent. If that doesn’t work I guess I will have to live the rest of my life completely naked because I have no idea where that smell could be coming from in that case.
Does the phrase “inevitable pinhole burns” mean anything to you? 
You DO realize that you are now obligated to post pics to prove this if it happens, right?
My email’s in my profile…
[sub]Jest sayin’…[/sub]
That is what I was thinking as well.
Off to MPSIMS.
I know what you are talking about, I started smelling this new pungent, sweet, with funny undertones of like sweat, …the smell is quite offensive. I smell it in cheap items. Plastic bags, soaps, cars, boxes, furniture, clothing, I can smell it in our fruits and taste it too. Try buying clothing from Walmart, smell the item. I have tried to wash it out, it doesn’t work. I don’t think many are aware of this smell because they have become immune to it, from it being everywhere. Does anyone know what they are using in our products to make this smell and why?
Same stuff they’re putting in the chemtrails. Don’t worry, though, it’s for your own good.
Well, since this thread is zombified anyway, I’d be curious to know if the OP ever figured this out, or if the smell stopped happening (or if the OP became a nudist).
For me, it got a lot better when I started washing my tinfoil hats with the darks rather than the whites.
It was the detergent. This whole situation actually caused me to switch to unscented everything except shampoo and bath soap. It was a little frustrating to spend a couple of months testing out all the unscented laundry detergent, deodorant, etc. to find the ones that worked for me but in the end it was worth it.
I’m sorry this is a zombie thread. I saw it and I was like girl, don’t you have a small child? Do you seriously need to ask?
Oh well.