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.

rococogurl: "Seeing your photo, I'd ask if you have enough detergent in there. Almost no suds at all! " We tend to run three washes through the machine, with different settings, in a cycle: (1) underwear plus kitchen clean-up cloths and towels, (2) colored laundry, and (3) sheets, pillow cases, and bathroom towels. The wash that I photographed was the underwear/kitchen cycle, the only one of the three that washes in hot water; the other two (warm water) washes get the same borax, but do not get the oxygen bleach, and they produce no more suds than that one does. The Vaska dose was up to the bottom of, but not fully covering, the fill line in the cap of the Vaska jug. It has got our clothes fully clean in every wash cycle that we have put it through so far.

Tide with Bleach IMHO is the absolute best detergent for white. It has a bleach activator in it so the oxygen bleach works very good...just if you can find the HE which I'm told is hard to find..I don't buy the HE..also Amazon sells Tide Professional with Oxi...its not cheap but works amazingly well. Its formulated for hotels so it has more Oxygen Bleach in it than what's on the store shelves, its also got a more neutral PH to keep hotel linens looking nicer longer, and although it has a wonderful scent in the box it only leaves a fresh clean scent on the clothes since hotels don't want their linen having a perfumed scent. There have been a few rumors that this stuff is the same as what's on the shelf just bigger boxes but that's not true. Did I sing its praises enough LOL.

@mamapinky, in your case, it's my opinion that appliances from that era weren't exactly BOL. I mean, you could purchase ANY dishwasher and get the exact same results. The same goes for ovens, and refrigerators. Things we're made, much much better then. Dishwashers actually used water. And, with Detergent's... formulated well, it didn't really make a difference what model you had. You'd still get a clean load of dishes. One of my favorite dishwashers, actually was a BOL GE Triton from a Disney Grand Floridian Resort Villa. I joke about that, because, they we're probably the cheapest, builder grade appliances they could find. But... every single load, would come out, completely immaculate. Even the tough stuff, like oatmeal stuck on bowls & stuck on egg, just rinsed completely away with the Phosphate Detergent packets they gave us. Like I said, older appliances, we're much better made. I don't think it really mattered what you bought ;)