Please take note: this is probably a post you are going to want to skip if you don’t want to hear about feminine hygiene products, vaginas and other personal things.
Proceed accordingly.
Here is a letter I actually sent to the Always company regarding a product I mistakenly purchased.
Like I said, look away if you don’t like vaginas.
Dear Always Pad-Making People:
I’ve been using Always products since 1992. Never had a problem differentiating betwen the scented and the non-scented products you carry. Usually they’re clearly marked with “So Fresh and So Clean” or whatever it is that you name the scent that neither smells fresh nor clean.
Last night, in a financial bind, a time crunch and a personal emergency, I went to Walgreen’s and purchased some of your tampons and pads. Being in a hurry, I read the labels and apparently missed the most important part.
Imagine my surprise when I open the boxes to deal with my personal emergency….and smell something. Normally, feminine products don’t smell like anything. Which is what I prefer, as I would rather not scent my ladybits. (Just a personal preference, I guess. Same reason why I don’t put glitter on it. I don’t feel the need to decorate it.)
I’m horrified, thinking my new laundry detergent is making that smell….but no. OH NO. Your products are making that smell.
The ones I just had to spend my last $15 on. (read: I don’t have the cash to buy new ones, and Walgreens won’t let me return an open box of girly products. So I have to suffer through this until my period ends. ON TOP OF THIS: I just went through a breakup. So I’m feeling really good about myself right now.)
I grab the box, and in letters that are quite literally 1/16″ of an inch high, lo and behold, I see “Fresh Scent” on the bottom corner of the pad box. Believe me when I tell you that the odor emitting from them is anything but fresh. It smells like rotting funeral flowers. It’s quite horrible.
And not only that, but whatever you use to scent them has added the bonus of several other issues “down there”, of which I will spare you the details, because I am 98% sure you are laughing by now.
I just wanted to let you know, so that you can inform your box-designing department that they may want to warn their customers in letters a little bigger than 1/16″ of an inch that your products are going to give them a rather lovely rash, make their coworkers comment on their perfume (as in: “you might want to tone down the cologne”) and generally make them curse being a girl.
So thanks for that. I’ll be taking my pad-purchasing power somewhere else next month.
I hate the way all of them smell, even the regular ‘non-scented’ ones. I switched to 7th Generation because they don’t smell and are way less irritating on my skin.
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I haaaaaaate when I accidentally get a box of scented ones. Yuck. And it’s certainly not easy to tell, like you experienced. My husband has commented on the smell before without knowing what it was. You’re not alone.
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