That God awful laundry soap some people use that's so strong I can smell it on their clothes from across the street. I think it's Gain. Holy shit.
I have some in-laws that use it and when they come over I have to air the house out for a couple hours after they leave to get the smell out. Sucks to turn off the air and open all the windows when it's 105° outside, but still doesn't suck as much as that smell.
Wow, I have a fairly sensitive sense of smell but I think you beat me... I don't think I've ever been repulsed by a laundry detergent smell.
I'm thinking there might be some psychological effect at play with this guy.
Psychology can't make you smell something from a distance.
You're not sensitive because you bathe yourself in those chemicals all day. Ever notice when you cook something in the house how fast you get used to it and don't smell it anymore? That's what happens when you're breathing chemical perfumes all day from your laundry, your shampoo, your dish soap, scented candles, air "fresheners," household cleaners, etc. If you get rid of all those carcinogenic perfumes for a month your nose will recover and you'll smell what a chemical soup most people live in all the time. And they wonder where all the cancer comes from.
It's insane. One of my neighbors uses that soap and if they start their dryer while I'm working outside our in the pool I have to stop and go inside. It burns my nose.
It really sucks in the summer because I can't open my windows when the evening cools off or I'll be fumigated by that stench.
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