Think about it. How many products do you have in your home that contain fragrances you like? Do you buy a lot of scented items? Or do you like things that don't smell at all? Whatever your preferences, you're attracted or repelled by certain scents. Read on to find out what fragrance choices you have in laundry care.

So does fragrance really make a difference? Apparently so. After all, we're buying products that contain scents. And companies continue to research scent preferences. Your laundry is one place you have a choice — to mix or match scents — or go without scent at all.

Tide® and Downy® provide matching scents for the entire machine wash and dry process — in detergent, liquid fabric softener and fabric softener sheets: Tide Clean Breeze and Downy Clean Breeze and Tide Mountain Spring and Downy Mountain Spring®. These scents allow you to layer the scent from start to finish. Tide and Downy also offer scent-free products that do not contain dyes or perfume.
Another approach is to use complementary scents that may be in the same general category. For instance, you can match outdoor scents or floral scents to produce desirable effects.

If you love the scent of original Tide, you can "enhance" the scent of your laundry with other Downy fabric softener scents. For example, try Downy April Fresh® or Downy Soft Ocean Mist®.

Maybe the answer for you and your family is no scent at all. Or if you prefer to have scent only in the rinse cycle, you can use a scent-free detergent and get fragrance and softness from a liquid fabric softener and dryer sheet.
Here's some thought-provoking information on the popular scents of Tide and Downy to help you decide what scents are right for you:

Downy April fresh

Remember when your mom tucked you into bed and the smell of her shirt as she kissed you goodnight? This scent blends springtime air with a fresh bouquet of flowers.

Downy Soft Ocean Mist

Remember family trips to the beach with the sun on your back, a light ocean breeze and cool mist on your face? Downy creates waves of these memories with Soft Ocean Mist.

Tide Clean Breeze and Downy Clean Breeze

Remember your favorite childhood game of hiding among clothes as they hung outside? This unique scent has a modern floral theme combined with the soft, powdery scent of line-dried freshness.

Tide Mountain Spring and Downy Mountain Spring

Remember that camping trip and the fresh, crisp mountain air? This bold and invigorating freshness is achieved by using a blend of crisp and tart citrus and green floral.

Tide Tropical Clean and Downy Tropical Clean

Remember that warm, peaceful trip to the tropics? This wonderful scent will refresh you thanks to an exotic blend of floral, fruity and spicy notes reminiscent of fresh tropical blooms.

Tide Free and Downy Free & Sensitive

Sensitive skin doesn't have to be left behind. Tide Free provides all the cleaning power you can trust without the scent. Downy Free & Sensitive smoothes fibers so your clothes feel soft and soothing on sensitive skin without dyes and perfumes.

Tide with a touch of Downy

This innovative laundry detergent provides an irresistible combination of softness and clean. Look for it in these three scents: Clean Breeze, April Fresh and Soft Ocean Mist.

Tide with Febreze™ Freshness and Downy with Febreze™ Fresh scent

Bring the Febreze freshness you love to the laundry room. Use Tide with Febreze Freshness in the wash and Downy with Febreze Fresh Scent in the rinse cycle to experience Febreze freshness that lasts from one wash to the next. Both come in two scents: Spring & Renewal™ and Meadows & Rain™

The next time you're deciding which fragrance to use for your laundry, follow your nose — and think about how scent can make you and your family feel.