Is it a universally agreed-upon “fresh” smell? Cultural? Or is lemon fragrance just cheap to manufacture and use in products? Something else?
I don’t hate it, but I also don’t care for it, either. Now I’m curious why so many cleaning products use that smell.
Lemon and orange are the easiest scents to achieve from a chemistry standpoint. It probably complements the base smell of a product easier.
Fun fact A professor once told us that a molecule’s chirality can make a diffeence. For example Limonene can either smell like pine or oranges depending on what way the molecule is mirrored.
For example Limonene can either smell like pine or oranges depending on what way the molecule is mirrored.
And would you look at that, pine is another extremely common cleaning scent
That makes sense. I guess more people than me are also sick of lemon since the orange scents are always out of stock.
It depends, a lot of the time, most cleaning products have that shitty “lemon” smell that fucking sucks, where it’s obviously only masking a more unpleasant smell even if the unpleasant smell is just the actual cleaning product. That usually means it’s even worse when there really is a foul odor present, cause then it smells like shit and lemon.
