I agree. It smells lousy. The same could be said for Dawn detergent, once lovely and now..UGH! These idiots can't leave well enough alone. And don't get me started on how "they" changed all the great perfumes into practically the same scent no matter what you buy..it smells like fly spray.

I bought the Tide powder with bleach orignal scent, it is not HE. At the beginning of this post, some said that the indregients had a suds, surpressor in it or sompthing like that. I find that one or two of the coffee scooups works in my washer according to load size and soil level. I have a 9 yr old Kenmore He3T. Drum capasity is 3.7 cu ft, and my washers uses 15.8 gallons of water per load. The ride resembles Persil in seem, just a nice clean scent that I have yet to find heavy of my clothes after they are washed and dried. I will continue to use it. BTW all my oily work clothes came out very well. I cant say that they were any cleaner, than if I used gain HE or Tide HE, but I was very satisfied with the results. My work clothes consist of Jeans, and Scrub tops, I got them cheap, and they work out great for work, wash good too, even on sanitary cycle right along with the jeans

@Andrew, while I wouldn't know if your local dry cleaner is at it. But... I do know that a few commercial laundry processors (who do a lot of work for hotel chains who outsource) are using it instead of their regular commercial line detergent. In a lot of cases, it's actually cheaper & more effective because of the bluing effect it has, compared to a proprietary "Rinse Aid" (Bluing Agent) they sometimes use for special clients. SPG Hotels & Hilton Properties comes in mind ;) Commercial Laundry kinda goes like this. Super-Heavy-Alki (at really high temperatures, we're talking boiling) ---> (Suds) Commercial Detergent with sometimes "boosters" (It's Lye or Sodium Hydroxide) ----> Chlorine Bleach ----> Laundry Sour/Rinse ----> Dryer. The Alki Wash (We're talking very high PH, skin burning) lasts about 7-9 Minutes, Followed by another 7-8 Minute "Suds" Wash, and then 6 minutes of Bleach, and 5 minutes of Sour (which is effectively Softener). And keep in mind, this can be as little as 50 Pounds of Linens to as much as 150... way bigger capacity, and much higher water levels ;) One thing is if you ever actually acquire Hotel Linens, and wash them repeatedly.. you'll notice that suds will ooze out forever. While they may feel soft, the Sour doesn't actually get rid of the detergent residue. In one case, I ran the same six towels through a 15-Gallon Top Loader Machine (rinse & spin)... not once, but 12 times before the water became clear!!!! I'm not even exaggerating. ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ { In hindsight, I should have really taken a picture of the before & after of this. The towels were almost 2x thicker, from all the fibers that had almost been compressed. } They simply don't have time and don't use enzymes. Sometimes the sorters, will grab certain garments that are special cases (Blood) and place them in another bin to soak, but almost everything goes through the same, process. And the process works. I also want to point out.. these machines are made for these kind of washes. Our home machines aren't designed for high-ph and alkaline conditions, and any machine, would eventually corrode from the damage caused by these detergents. A industrial machine on the other hand would obviously be able to handle it. I will admit though.. I've used some Ecolab Stuff at home ;). Especially like their Tri-Star Softener & Sours. And of course, you know you're officially a freak when you can tell what detergent a Hotel's linens have been processed with, just by the hint of smell ;) lmao.

Here is one post from that thread. More then one person said they had talked on the phone to P&G was was told the same thing. With the way they’ve been changing scents over the past few years it could have been tweaked since this old thread ..... September 24, 2014 at 10:14AM Talked to P&G. They have flip flopped (for some odd reason we shall never understand) the original powder and mountain spring powder. So supposedly, in a perfect world, I was told to buy the mountain spring to now receive the original scent. In my way of thinking, original is original. If you change something that is supposed to be original, it can't be original anymore. Original carries no changes. Hence the word original. Just saying.