What is freshness?

Literally just put bedding on to wash so I can hang it out in the sunshine. We live near the sea, so if I'm really lucky, there might be a hint of sea breeze too.
I don't want to smell of deodorant, but I'd like me to be smelling 'fresh'.

I associate fresh with natural things. Fresh air. Fresh breeze. Fresh bread not artificial freshness.

I don't link the "fresh" word to artificial smells to be honest.
I wouldn't ever think of the word fresh when linked to anything frozen.

I just folded some towels which had dried on the line. The feel and the smell means freshness to me.

I agree anything to make things smell ‘fresh’ has to be artificial surely. Line dried laundry is fresh to me.

Clean, dry and aired.

Clean, dry and aired.
...but not if it smells of washing products!

I suppose baking soda would be the thing to use then?

I'm not worried about washing powder smells, though.

Lined dried laundry = fresh
Bread made on the day = fresh
Veggies just pulled from the allotment = fresh

New mown grass.
Salty sea air.

I like natural aromas, but when you go into the supermarket there are aisles of “air fresheners” which fill the home and cars with chemicals. Likewise artificial scents (chemicals) added to everything from laundry products, to room fresheners, to cleaning products, which cannot be healthy. Scented candles too.

For me fresh equals odourless. Lovely, awful or unrecognizable is a smell sensation therefore not fresh methinks. Be interested to hear other interpretations.

Certain things have natural aromas, like lemons, or cut grass, which please our senses, but some natural aromas seem unpleasant, such as certain plants or some body odours.
The meaning of “Fresh” as in the dictionary has been misappropriated I believe, by advertisers to sell products.

Oh dear God yes, all that Fresh!! It’s so fresh!!! - when they actually mean laden with artificial stinks.

How many people actually buy all these stink-boosters to add to the wash - in addition to the laundry product and conditioner - if they use that too?

I have washing on the line. That will smell fresh when I bring it in. The air smells fresher at the coast or in the country than it does in the city. Nothing chemical smells fresh.

How about expensive perfumes?
Do they stink of chemicals?

MissAdventure

How about expensive perfumes?
Do they stink of chemicals?

Yes.

Because they are made of chemicals.

Got it in one!

I totally agree, you can't artificially create fresh its what happens when you hang clothes outside. Sometimes I buy 2nd hand clothes on ebay & they arrive having the smell of some 'fresh' laundry stuff on it and I wash it out.

It also makes me laugh that in the chiller isle you can buy all sorts of drinks etc with bacteria in, yet go down a few isles to cleaning and you can buy stuff to kill 99% of household germs.

The world has gone crazy! But I'd rather have a few bugs around me than the chemicals!!

It also makes me laugh that in the chiller isle you can buy all sorts of drinks etc with bacteria in, yet go down a few isles to cleaning and you can buy stuff to kill 99% of household germs

Most bacteria is good/useful (germs are only the ones that cause problems). This tends to be overlooked.

i thought the title referred to the american usage, where freshness means cheek, impertinence, uppity.
have no views on artificial smells.
just avoid them if you don't like them.
can't really understand what's to be angry about.

Pedant alert!

Should have said most bacteria are good. 🙃

welbeck

i thought the title referred to the american usage, where freshness means cheek, impertinence, uppity.
have no views on artificial smells.
just avoid them if you don't like them.
can't really understand what's to be angry about.

I think the OP just meant all the TV ads trying to sell Fresh!! There are so many, often one after the other.

Since I was diagnosed with COPD ten years ago I have avoided all artificial scents, including expensive perfumes.The very sniff of one brings on a very nasty short of breath attack when struggle to breathe, often one so bad I have to go to A&E for nebuliser.
I used to love the smell of incense in church, not now, that with the accompanying smoke makes me run for the door very quick!