I use vinegar when washing stubbornly and unpleasantly “odorous” items to tame the smell. It works really well. Our older Siamese expressed her displeasure over new kittens last year in a very disgruntled feline manner, and a good splash of vinegar right into the wash water took care of the problem when nothing else would. It also helps when scrubbing an affected area of carpeting when necessary.

Agreed on the laundry detergent. I do like really fragrant dish soaps however. There was a lovely berry-scented soap we used for quite a while, and I love a good lemon-scented dish soap as well.

It seems like sleeping on a vanilla scented mattress would either be the remedy or encouragement for a sweet tooth craving upon waking. Either I’d be so sick of the stuff that all sweets would sound unappealing, or it would slip into my dreams and I’d wake up craving rice pudding or some such.

Even if you liked the scent when you first buy the mattress, I know I’d be sick of it in mere weeks….then you wouldn’t be able to get away from it! Which would be horrible! And holy cow, I can’t imagine how bad it would be if you had a stomach bug and every little smell made you want to ‘ralph’…..sheeesh, I can’t imagine actually buying one of these!