Peppermint is essential. Where would toothpaste be without it ? ( hello spearmint ).
The best toilet cleaner in Japan was a simple mint that smelled lovely and did the trick. It has been gone for the shelves for about half a year. I smelled a tres pepperminty spray in the ‘restroom’ of the rehabilitation centre yesterday that was so good I spritzed a little extra in the air so that a few blessed droplets would alight on my person – I wanted to ask the receptionist where they got it — I still might.
At the big convenience store today I saw that the one I always use – there are guests coming round tonight for a mini halloweenish shindig – that the Mint Thing was back, so I bought a big bag of it
But bleurrgjh
—– are we now at the point where toilet cleaners are also getting reformulated ?
I cleaned and applied … but Big Bird Of Legoland this smells like vomit in a 90’s nightclub. I am genuinely embarrassed those coming tonight for a bit of costuming and records and a quick trip to the izakaya one minute away might think I wanted the toilet to smell like this.
Mint is good for you. And cheap.
so Why would they take that essential ingredient out of the mix. Is there some kind of IFRA ((JIFRA?)) edict on the mint species ?
This is vile.
You are so right. I also had a favourite mint toilet cleaner (Toilet Duck) which was discontinued. I can’t help feeling that the manufacturers think we all want our loos to smell like fruit, candy and caramel. Yuk. Even toothpastes aren’t quite as minty now. I have always relished wearing perfume that has mint notes in the heat. I sometimes drop a little mint essential oil into the toilet bowl after I have cleaned it to add some freshness to the air.
Happy Halloween.
Y’see I hate mint in perfume, but LOVE an extra drop on the toothbrush. Mint is good. Why would They take away our mintiness ?
Having said that I discovered a new chewing gum yesterday, Longmint, which extended the menta piperita – so maybe there is a counterbattle happening right under our noses
Re toothpastes again – I think they should be so minty they make your lips burn and perhaps herein lies the rub : a sensitizer ?
You could well be correct about it being a sensitizer. I like mint tea after a meal, but I have recently found out that mint is not recommended for people with gastric problems that cause acid, in spite of what we’ve been led to believe! My particular passion is for Summerdown Mint Tea, made with an English black mint … so minty it feels like it’s freezing my stomach!
ooh want to try it
peppermint tea is a real nerve soother for me
Lemon or lemongrass is my first choice for cleaning products (terribly American, I know!)
I always have peppermint in my garden tho, when dried it’s so good on lamb or goat.
I don’t know what is going on in industrial scents, I really don’t want my bathroom or clothing smelling like a cupcake or bird vomit.
Some Halloween cheer:
👻 Spooky, This Is: Halloween Poem by Yoda
Costumes strange, and candy sweet,
On every doorstep, trick-or-treat.
Ghosts they float, and goblins grin,
Even Sith Lords join the spin!
Pumpkins carved with Jedi flair,
Lightsabers clash in autumn air.
Wookiee howls and droid delight,
Haunted, this galaxy is tonight!
Beware the broom, the witch’s cackle,
Spells they cast, your nerves may crackle.
But fear not, young Padawan crew—
Happy Halloween, I wish to you! 🎃
Lovely
My dad and younger brother were more the Star Wars fans but it remains a part of my childhood
D would have no idea what you are talking about
both lemon and lemongrass can be so right and yet sometimes so WRONG
Lemon is almost always right for me, in almost everything. But lemongrass, only in a good soup. I bought a Korean “wonder balm” that smells of fresh tatami, on an airplane once, and subsequent purchases are much weaker; I’m with you on the “why do good things have to change” front. My holy grail is the smell of my aunt’s carpet cleaner (60s, 70s) – I can’t even begin to identify what it might have been, but I get tantalising whiffs of it occasionally for unknown reasons. Does anyone in the world keep a scent library of cleaning products? And how would it be kept fresh? Surely some way of cryo-preserving smells now…
I love that idea.
A scent library of EVERYTHING.
But then again it might just be too emotionally overwhelming
Oh, they definitely do reformulate these sorts of products, or basically just kill off the old ones. Where I live, Brazil (basically the opposite of Japan in terms of scent culture) I grew up in the 2000s with pine being the main star of house cleaning products but nowadays it’s almost gone. Fabric softener used to be always blue, full of aldehydes and white musk (so nice). Nowadays there’s a trend of making these products with a marketing claim of ”fine fragrance” – the result is that now we have house cleaning products that smell like My Way by Giorgio Armani and this week I stumbled upon a laundry detergent that had something very Angel about it. Not great.
Yes – the Angels and even ouds have crept into products here.
I dream that in Brazil everything smells of passionfruity maracuya
Oh, maracujá is definitely beloved! But I’d say these days the most popular girl is caju (aka cashew, the fruit, not the nut), due to Granado-Phebo (our Yardley, trying and succeeding to get Gen Z on TikTok with some niche-isms nowadays) doing some rather nice takes on it (Époque Tropical and both Isoldas). Natura also started doing cashew and it has some fresh, not very cliché EDTs around maracujá in their Ekos line.
Cashew perfumes ? What do they smell like ?
I LOVE passion fruit btw