I thought it was the cologne they spray at the store, but even clothes I have delivered from a distribution center also have a smell that is very discernibly NOT Tide detergent.
How?? What are they washing these clothes with to make them smell like that??
Spray them down with microplastics, unnatural dyes, and hazardous chemicals.
They use some rather consumer unfriendly chemicals, like formaldehyde as others said, but also things like flame retardants, pest deterrents, anti molding agents etc to preserve the clothes if they’re stored improperly. You should ALWAYS wash new clothes before wearing them, even ignoring the possibility of others having tried them on. Maybe consider another scent for your clothes.
Anyone else read this in Tuvok’s voice?
Plastic, nitrogen (or some inert gas, if packaged), and formaldehyde.
Yum!
Manufacturing detritus. Machine oil. Pollution. The rancid sweat of 100 hands they’ve passed through.
That smell is an excellent reason to wash your clothes before wearing them.
Well that sucks I really do like the smell. But maybe I’m just crazy.
Not crazy, just conditioned. Buying new clothes is exciting (after you turn 15) and the smell is part of the memory.
15? I’m 18 and I still dread it. Even if I get something nice, was is rly worth it? It’s a necessity, how can someone enjoy something that they must do? (like eating: super overrated)
Agreed on both points. I buy all my shit at Kohl’s cause I just don’t care. Plain colored shirts, and regular pants. Am I fashionable? Fuck no, but I also don’t get weird looks for dressing bad. Someone buys an $80 shirt and “can’t” wear it after a year or two. I buy a $15 shirt and wear it for close to a decade if it’s still in good shape.
And food? It may just be me getting old but eating is more of something I do just to not die. Sure, I enjoy some foods, but overall it’s just a chore.
Wow, someone else that actually feels the way I do about these things, particularly the eating part. The whole process of preparing, cooking and eating food feels like such a waste of time to me, I wish I could just take a pill or supplement that actually gave me everything I needed as if I were eating a healthy balanced diet and then maybe eat one meal a week for the actual taste of food.
Try Formaldehydes…don’t actually, but you probably like the smell of Formaldehyde since it’s typically used on fabrics to make em less wrinkley, and keep their color and to stop mildew while sitting in a factory for months and travelling across oceans when it leaves the child labor camps.
Clothes are often treated with chemicals such as formaldehyde during manufacturing, which are responsible for that “new clothes smell”. They aren’t all that good for you though!
Gain detergent.
Step 1. Turn on washing machine. Step 2. Hit head with hammer.
Instructions unclear, I put on the brain washing machine then hit head with hammer, clothes don’t smell any different though
You have to hit the front of your head
I’ll be real, this sounds like a question a criminal would ask.
You caught me
I think that’s just their natural scent. Add a few weeks of getting your stink all over them and then using chemicals to replace your smell with Mountain Breeze, and the original smell slowly disappears
