The Highly Fragranced Life
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Topic: The Highly Fragranced Life
Posted By: mr randal
Subject: The Highly Fragranced Life
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:10am
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I’ve all but given up buying used clothing from the US, and and am much more cautious buying from certain European countries and japan, due to how many things I’ve gotten, in increasing frequency over the years, that reek of highly perfumed soaps, fabric softeners, or fabreeze type “air fresheners”. Surely other people are bothered by this? Most recently I bought a pair of LVC Knappaves that smelled like the air filter of a mega church transport bus for elderly ladies. The irony of smelling overpoweringly of synthetic florals while wearing distressed miners clothing... it fills me with despair. |
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Posted By: Sansome
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:27am
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The solution is a simple one, I learned this washing up a scrap of denim....This denim scrap was incased In 100 plus generations of packrat doodie and urine, I washed the scrap 10 or more times, with dawn dish soap. This little scrap Filled the whole house, with a lovely urine stench.... I set the scrap out in the sun- for maybe 4 days 100% gone the smell was, no hints of urine what so ever. Set anything you have on that awesome roof at your place- the power of sunlight, can’t match it. |
Posted By: mr randal
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 10:49am
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You are right on the money there- I’d read that dish soap somehow breaks down the bonds that synthetics form with fabric, and have had success reducing the stench to bearable levels by soaking overnight in a dilute solution of vinegar and unscented dish soap, then machine washing on a long cycle. But still- WHY? |
Posted By: Bob Dale
Date Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 8:15pm
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This reminds me of one of my worst experiences thrifting. The thrift store was beside a weird cult like cross fit gyms. People were flipping over tractor tires or some shit and maybe 15 bottles of avon cologne and perfumes from the 70s came crashing to the floor. Despitely paying, and leaving promptly i had an almost instant migraine. As mentioned , a clothesline and sunshine work wonders to remove unwelcome odor from clothes |
Posted By: dudewuttheheck
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 1:45am
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It's funny you bring this up. I had never bought any used clothing from Europe before, but I just bought a used LVC henley that I had wanted for quite some time. When it arrived, the smell was extremely strong. I didn't hate it and I'm glad it was freshly washed rather than smelling like sweat, but wow it's a strong scent.
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Posted By: mr randal
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 10:35am
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When I was a kid there were certainly fragranced products, but it seems like there has been a steady increase in the power of them which really have accelerated in the last decade or so. I think someone from anytime before the 60s would be shocked and probably nauseated by how some people smell today who use one or more of these super scented products. “You smell like a French whorehouse!” Is something I recall my uncles saying when someone was particularly fragrant. Our whole modern western society may smell like a French Whorehouse now... |
Posted By: CSL
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 12:37pm
| "A tart's windowbox" was one I recall hearing back in the day. |
Posted By: Sansome
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 12:55pm
 I can hear my father saying it smelled like a French whore house.I regret not buying the best flannel I have ever seen in a thrift store, you could smell it From 10 feet away- it wasn’t floral- it was a mix of BO/mold and moth balls. |
Posted By: Maynard Fried-San
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 1:11pm
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“A tart’s handbag”. ------------- Helixing my inner beanie |
Posted By: Sansome
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 2:11pm
Is this an equivalent ^^^^ ? |
Maynard Fried-San wrote:Posted By: hollows
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 2:33pm
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Hear hear. I bought a Nanamica goretex jacket a few years back and had to leave it out in the sun and rain for WEEKS before it was tolerable, let alone cleansed, of the previous owner's olfactory wrecking ball. On the flip side, I find that the used stuff I get from Japan has a pleasant, distinctive, and not-overbearing smell that is probably bound up with some nostalgia from time spent in the country. I'd much rather smell a human body than the stuff folks wear to mask it. ------------- I make things out of http://www.hollowsleather.com" rel="nofollow - leather . |
Posted By: Sansome
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 8:15pm
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I saw a commercial the other day, It makes you clothes stay and have a fresh smell for weeks, It’s these brightly colored Pellets- you add them to your wash....Perhaps this is the sort of thing that’s adding what sounds to an abundance, of unwanted fragrance? |