Wash Life

Posse – this is a Mashup Response to Tom’s ‘Whine’ post from last week (LOVE that hat, Tom!  I have one in ochre but would KEAL for it in black!) and Portia’s ongoing ‘thunk’ posts.  Tom and alityke chatted about using cheap Spanish EDCs in the laundry – I don’t do that in the washONLY because the smell doesn’t linger – I tend to use the C&Cs in the dryer – usually splashing it on my hands, then on a wet towel (or something else that won’t stain).  I also will use a C&C in the rinse basin of handwashables *C&C = Cheap & Cheerful

Lately, though, I’ve been ‘thunking’ samples and dregs of decants in my laundry – and it’s been an … interesting.. experience – mostly good… but an occasional O.M.G.   As far as laundry goes, especially in Summer, I am a bit of a perfume magpie – I just like the idea of ‘perfume’ and I really like the idea of ‘thunking’ a lot of little vials that have a smidge of Eau du Whatever, whilst also getting a bit of Pretty Smell to linger in a drawer.

So… most of the citruses and florals are thunked to great delight. Done with that gallon jug of  4711 or Jean Nate? Swish a bit of water in there, throw it in your hands then throw it on a couple of towels headed for the dryer.  They won’t actually smell of the scent – they just smell-adjacent.  Ish.  You’ll like it!

Every now and then, though….  I mean, really Musette?  READ THE DAMB LABEL! Or at least smell the vial before you dump .05ml of OPIUM into the towels!  It’s like that time I spilled Aromatics Elixirs on El O’s leather recliner – he didn’t care but I ended up with a low-level migraine for a week!  Mayne! Those towels?  3 vinegar rinses later, they still smelled of Opium, though I’m not sure if they actually smell of Opium or if I just have that PTSD, where the scent lodges into your soft palate and lingers, possibly until you die…… at 96.  Or later.  Or never (it’s possible that they could dig me up after the next Ice Age and they would find traces of Opium or AE still stuck in the bones of my nasal cavities.  Or the dust of the bones ; I wouldn’t put it past either of those Perfume T-Rexes!

The dregs of a Surrender to Chance decant of Chloe (vintage) … that one went into the diffuser!  Sheer perfection.  But I could see where it could really be a Possible Miss if it got lodged in some fabric.  Another Possible Miss (but it wasn’t – but it nearly was) the original Oscar de la Renta.  Y’all want to Go LIGHT! with that one.  Pretty much all those 80s powerhouses should be wielded with a careful hand – and you’d damb well better like the scent – because it’s gonna hang around for awhile.

Have you ever ‘thunk’ed via laundry?  Do you ever use perfume to, well, perfume your laundry? Wash? Rinse?  Most important:  have you ever had a Regret Thunk, as I did with that damb Opium??  Lordt.  That thing has the half-life of yellowcake!  Overall, though, I have had great success with the Laundry Thunk – mostly the drawers and a bit of closet action yields an overall Pretty Perfume Scent.

Oh, yeah.  One other thing:  I wouldn’t ‘thunk’ Dog Laundry, if I were you.  They don’t like it.  And they will do everything they can to get rid of the perfume smell.  Including scratching The Thing to oblivion.  Ask me how I know that..

all photos:  pexels, bless their creative little horts.