Silly: Nice smelling washing...

I have this problem too (not the smelling of wee bit!), everyone else's washing always seems to smell lovely and mine just doesn't smell of anything. i have tried all sorts of different products and although fabric conditioner does help it isn't as good as other peoples. I find drying stuff inside holds the smell a bit better than the washing line.

i wonder if we are just immune to the smell and our laundry does indeed smell as lovely as everyone else's? I lurve the smell of washing powder to the extent that i am sometimes strangely drawn to nibble a bit just to check it doesn't taste as lovely as it smells!!! i know, very weird!

You are used to the smell, so can't smell it.

The only way I find washing stays fresh is liquids in the drum & a little fabric conditioner in the drawer.

I use persil colours for darks, Daz for whites & everything else bold green & Comfort cotton fresh

I don't tumble dry, unless it's towels.

?We get grunge on our rubber seal to, tis mankey - and in the conditioner drawer!. Our washing doesn't smell of anything at all and I use fabric conditioner. Line/tumble or air dried doesn't make a difference.

The only thing that has made it smeel nice after drying was - i think it's Lenor , its in a black bottle and has quite a strong smell to it. Anyway - that lingered on the clothes but H said he smelt like a girl so we stopped using it.?

How do you dry your washing? I notice sometimes in the winter my clothes are abit musty from being dried inside. I find sticking it on the line for an hour helps (once dried even).

Also, ironing stuff seems to make my stuff smell better.

I confess I bought some Lenor Infusions this morning, it was £1 in ASDA. What MIL said was that MissSun sometimes smelled of wee and I said that at the time she'd said it MissSun was clean and fresh with a new nappy on and then MIL said 'its probably our washing powder, we're just not used to the smell of it'. How rude lol! Then MrSun said when he dried with a towel that otherwise smelled fine he could smell something when it got wet and now I'm paranoid. Maybe I am immune to the smell but then I haven't had anyone comment on the smell of my washing either, other than negatively lol!.

Comfort pure or lenor , lenor smells nicer for longer but i find its so strong if i use it on undies i get thrush so i prefer comfort pure

Mine used to be the same until I discovered two new fabirc softners. Comfort Sunshine, holds it smell really well, and over the weekend I was using Surf Lavender powder and Comfort (or Lenor) lavender conditioner and I can really smell the difference in the clothes.

Also it helps to dry outside, although no idea why.

I won't have wet washing hanging around the house, I don't like it. It's either line dried or tumble dried i'm afraid and I iron most things other than underwear and MrSun's shorts.

I don't tumble dry clothes as I think it makes them lose their fresh smell for some reason. We recently started to use the Bold two-in-one and I love the smell. Is it worth trying to dry your clothes on airers in the airing cupboard or in the spare room once or twice to see if you notice the difference?

Can you smell the fresh clothes when you iron them? Another thught is your iron might need cleaning if it uses water. I've tried Comfort Puresse water before and that lasted quite well.

I use Lenor with fabreeze and that tends to keep the clothes smelling nice, even when they have been tumble dried.

I use persil & lenor , i can't smell my clothes but my mum always asks how i get my laundry "so nice smelling" , so it must be fragrant i just must be used to the smell.

I love the smell of clean washing! I wish they would make a perfume of it as its my favourite smell! I just persil colour care - the just washed feeling one - def has a lovely smell...

Line drying takes the smell away, I think. Drying on airers seems to work best in our house - that, and using washing liquid rather than powder. I don't use fabric softeners very often as they're not very good for the fabric.

I had a big problem with mainly H's clothes smelling bad even after they had been washed, I switched to bio instead of non bio and have been using comfort with that fresh release thing, and they smell so much better. The fabric conditioner actually really does last, I got a cardigan out of a drawer at the weekend that had been there for 2 months and it still smells of the fabric conditioner

Our washing has smelt better, and stayed smellingnice longer since we got a new washing machine.

Our old machine was very old, and often had a lingering stagnent water smell in the drum - it then died and we got our lovely (singing) Indesit Moon - its fab as it doesn't have a draw that gets all gunked up, the 'draw' is inside the door and gets cleaned in each wash.

We use Ariel tablets and Lenor Pure, and air dry in the house - bonus being the house then smells nice!

If you iron most things have you tried ironing water? I use Tesco's own, Asda's own, Sainsbury's own, Vaporesse and they're all great. Stop the iron getting as limescaled and make the washing smell nice.

I always use fabric softener for freshness, softness & because it makes ironing easier. I can't used heavily perfumed ones though because they irritate my delicate parts ?. I tend to use Comfort Pure or similar. Have bought the Aldi version to try to see it that's any good.

Our washer used to niff and then my mum threw a load of bicarb of soda in, and put it on boil and it seemed to sort it out. It died a bit later but I don't think that was related!

[sad confession]

I love the smell of fabric conditioner. I spend ages in the supermarket sniffing each one, and it makes me feel calm and happy! I change our fabric conditioner quite a bit so I can always smell the perfume in it. We're currently on Lavender from Tesco.