What is freshness?

Could well be.
I wonder why it's so sought after?

My Google results say it smells fecal.

That's enough to make anyone vomit!

Sarahr my last post was in response to yours .

My washing comes in from the line just smelling of fresh air. Can't stand it when people pass you out and about smelling strongly of their soap powder/conditioner, unnatural and and overpowering.

So relieved to have read all theses comments as I question why we need to have scent boosters etc for our washing. I find it difficult to buy washing products which are only lightly scented. Can't bear to be near anyone who has strong laundry smell on their clothes. I am lucky because I am able to line dry my clothes so are fresh to wear.

Picklesgranma, fragrance free washing strips by The Lab Co are completely brilliant in my experience. I've been using them for most of this year and haven't yet encountered anything they won't deal with, including my partner's spectacular nosebleed of a few weeks ago which covered both of our shirts and jeans in blood.
I buy it from Ocado but it's also available at Amazon and probably other places, too.

winterwhite

There is also the irritating ‘freshly’, meaning recently as in freshly cut sandwiches, freshly ground black pepper, freshly cut grass. This usage is recent in itself.

I don’t see that usage as really recent, either. In some cases ‘freshly’ has slightly different connotations from ‘newly’ or ‘recently’. E.g. ‘recently washed’ could mean last week, whereas ‘freshly’ would more usually mean within the last 24 hours.

Scribbles

winterwhite

There is also the irritating ‘freshly’, meaning recently as in freshly cut sandwiches, freshly ground black pepper, freshly cut grass. This usage is recent in itself.

Not so recent! I remember seeing an instruction in that Victorian bible of household management, Mrs Beeton, to use "freshly drawn water".

Scribbles I was always told to use fresh water when making a pot or cup of tea, using water which was left in the kettle from a previous boiling was not the correct way to make tea.
My mother had Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management.

The advert that annoys me is the one of the woman on a train, wearing a 'freshly washed' blouse but then says the smell of BO soon comes back again. I feel sorry for the other people around her.

Allira
The advert that annoys me is the one of the woman on a train, wearing a 'freshly washed' blouse but then says the smell of BO soon comes back again. I feel sorry for the other people around her.

😂
Me, too!

Scribbles

Allira
The advert that annoys me is the one of the woman on a train, wearing a 'freshly washed' blouse but then says the smell of BO soon comes back again. I feel sorry for the other people around her.

😂
Me, too!

She must have been desperate to pay the rent to have agreed to do that advert!

MissAdventure

Dianehillbilly1957

My washing comes in from the line just smelling of fresh air. Can't stand it when people pass you out and about smelling strongly of their soap powder/conditioner, unnatural and and overpowering.

I don't like this either Dianehillbilly1957

But our washing is line dried too.