What is freshness?

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.

MissAdventure

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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.

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Me, too!

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

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!

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sarahr my last post was in response to yours .

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!

I totally agree I adore the smell of washing when it’s been on the line outside.

Or once it's too big they vomit and then start collecting again??

It's a whole other world it seems, whales and their innards.
Perhaps they vomit some up and then produce more?

MissAdventure.I know it's been found here on our beaches in the past.

Why do they vomit it up if it's useful I wonder? 🤔😂

Freshness is the smell of washing dried on the line, using minimal washing product and no added scent boosters.

On balance, I'm happy with chemicals.

Ready?

Ambergris, also known as ambergrease or grey amber, is a solid, waxy substance that comes from the digestive systems of sperm whales and pygmy sperm whales. It's a flammable substance that's usually a dull grey or blackish color, but can also be brown, jet black, or light or dark grey. When fresh, it has a marine, fecal odor.
Ambergris is thought to form when indigestible parts of squid get stuck in a whale's intestines and bind together, forming a solid mass that grows over many years. It may protect the whale's organs from sharp squid beaks. Only about 1–5% of sperm whales produce ambergris.
Ambergris has been used for centuries and has many uses:
Perfumery: In the West, ambergris is used as a fixative to stabilize the scent of perfumes.
Eastern cultures: Ambergris is used in medicines, potions, and as a spice.
Ice cream: Ambergris has been used to flavor ice cream.
Ambergris can be found floating in or on the shores of

Witzend I think ambergris is basically "whale sick". I know they regurgitate it - but have no idea why!

Fresh means it has a date after which it will not be fresh.

In a weather context it means 'happening'. Fresh air blowing. In the case of bread, inside soft, outside custy and crisp and so on.

I totally agree, OP. To me a fresh smell is something natural, like laundry that’s been dried outside as everyone has said, not a horrible synthetic scent.

It put me right off Musk perfumes, reading where the musky smell originated, that's for sure!

MissAdventure

Some of the original natural ingredients aren't available now, apparently.
.didnt it used to be from scent glands in animaks?

I seem to recall some ingredient only found in sperm whales - ambergris? Obviously extremely rare and expensive.

I can't wash clothes at 30 degrees, because they do come out smelly.

The detergent companies are taking us for fools. Wash at 30" to save money and save the planet. Spend what you save on expensive smells. One ad. tries to tell us smells still linger on clothes after washing. and need something added to the wash.
Gransnetters seem to have the right idea, Hang your washing on the line.