Our head of shopping was stopped in her Pilates class by a woman wanting to know the name of her perfume, but the scent was from a cheap box of ‘incredible’ in-wash scent boosters
I don’t know about you but there’s nothing that makes my day quite like a stranger paying me a compliment. This week, while I was warming up on my reformer bed in my weekly Pilates class, the woman on the bed next to me stopped her movement mid-way through to turn to ask me what my perfume was.
“Sorry, but you smell incredible,” she said, very genuinely, might I add.
Beaming back I said thanks before pausing to consider which one of my many scents I’d decided to spritz on that morning. Was it my Glossier You? My Burberry Goddess (that one usually gets me the most comments)? The problem was, I couldn’t actually remember spritzing on anything before rushing out to my morning class.
Sniffing the sleeve of my top it dawned on me, the perfume my fellow Pilates goer was smelling was coming from my clothes. She could smell my Fairy Non-Bio In-Wash Scent Booster. I’ve been using them in every wash since finding them a few months ago, and I’ve noticed how fresh they make my clothes smell, but now the evidence is undeniable.
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A box usually costs between £5-£7 in supermarkets, but there’s a deal currently running on Amazon that gives you six packs of them for £15.67 – well worth it, I promise because you’ll be ordering more the second your first box runs out.
There are many scent boosters on the market, and I’ve tried plenty, but these are by far my favourite. Fragranced with almond milk and manuka honey, a scoop of them in every wash makes my laundry smell like clean laundry that’s been dried outside in the sun. I combine them with Bold’s Cold Wash Washing Liquid Gel, £19.99 here for two XL tubs to last you nearly 50 washes), stick my washing machine on a 30, and my clothes always come out smelling amazing,
You can really tell I’m in my thirties because now, whenever I meet up with my girlfriends for drinks or dinner, we get to chatting about laundry hacks. I can’t wait to tell them about my Pilates encounter because I know they’ll all get their phones out to immediately order a box of the boosters for themselves!