"We haven’t traditionally done fragrances that are gourmand, but we wanted to bring something fruity and fun [to market],” founder Ian Blair says. He was concerned that gourmand scents would be “too edible,” by which he means he didn’t want his detergent to make your clothes smell like food. He needn’t have worried. “It’s been a very well-received fragrance,” he says. “In fact, out of all of our limited edition fragrances, it’s the one that’s sold the fastest.”

— On Laundry Sauce's Mojave Peach detergent. Read more in Products are changing what we think ‘clean’ smells like at The Washington Post.

I wrestled with how to move forward with New Dawn. Was I supposed to switch to Mrs. Meyer’s? Inconceivable. I briefly considered that I was overreacting, then did the only rational thing I could think of and walked to seven different stores trying to find a legacy bottle hidden on the back of a shelf. Eventually, I bought a dust-coated hardware store out of its ancient mini bottles of the original Dawn for a 300% markup.

— Cleaning products get reformulated too! Read more in It’s Not Just You: Household Product Scents Are Getting Stronger at Bloomberg.