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??
Gain detergent.
Plastic, nitrogen (or some inert gas, if packaged), and formaldehyde.
Yum!
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.
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.
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!
Step 1. Turn on washing machine. Step 2. Hit head with hammer.
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
