Slightly scented tampons - what fresh hell is this?

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

I was in Tesco yesterday buying tampons. I normally get the Tesco own-brand non-applicator ones, because applicators are just more environmentally unfriendly unflushable septic tank destroying crap. Annoyingly, however, Tesco were out of any non-applicator tampons in anything other than super-plus plus. After some deliberation, ruling out Tampax Pearl because of the infuriating adverts, I picked up Tampax Compak Fresh, because I couldn't see any difference between them and the unfresh ones. Not until I opened the box this morning did I clock the 'slightly scented' bit. Readers, I feel sullied.

AIBU to think that slightly scented tampons are the most ridiculous idea ever?

[VivaLeBeaver]

Sounds like a recipe for thrush.

[babiesinslingsgetcoveredinfood]

Eeew yadnbu

[NamelessHereForEvermore]

Yuk. YANBU. This kind of shit shouldn't even be legal.

[CuttedUpPear]

Reminds me of my mum getting TSS (toxic shock syndrome) in the seventies from using tampons. I don't think they constructed them very well back then. And this sounds like an innovation too far.

Thanks to her (possibly over dramatic) warnings I have never used one in my life!

[Cakecrumbsinmybra]

Oh dear, that is ridiculous. Making girls feel even dirtier, playing on insecurities. I won't be sticking one of those anywhere near me!

[KeatsiePie]

Ew! What is the necessity?

[NoelHeadbands]

Oh lovely, now we're so minging we need to be freshened from the inside

[GrowSomeCress]

Oh dear, we aren't that stinky fgs

[Petsinmypudenda]

Grim. Im itching just thinking about them

[TheFallenNinja]

Scented with what???

[Messandmayhem]

Eeeeeew, YANBU!

[Messandmayhem]

Eeeeeew, YANBU!

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

It just makes me angry. Periods are not dirty or smelly. How is anyone g

[Hooleywhipper]

No you just wouldn't would, I feel an irritation coming on at the very thought

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

Oops. Posting on bus. I was going to say how is anyone going to know - it's not like I shall be inviting people to sniff my crotch, dog-stylee and admire the lovely fresh scent, is it?

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

Floral scented. Because girlies like to smell flowery, dontcha know.

[ScarletLady02]

Sounds vile....aren't they doing this with Always pads as well?

[MrsSchadenfreude]

But how would you smell it once it was up your foof?

[ScarletLady02]

Reminds me of a piss-take ad I saw in Viz for "Twinkle Twat"....a female intimate scented spray

[CupidStunt48]

I accidentally bought the 'Sented

[CupidStunt48]

I accidentally bought the 'Slightly scented' Pads, Unfortunately these were my only option.

TMI but after using one I came out it a horrendous rash that left me itching for weeks.

It's ridiculous, The smell is so strong that I could smell it through my clothes. Nothing screams 'Im on my period and I would smell if I didn't wear this even though it makes me smell like Febreze!'

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

Oh God, I hope I don't get a rash in my unmentionables! Itching just thinking about it.

[TooExtraImmatureCheddar]

Arf at Twinkle Twat!

This might be the time to invest in a mooncup. Maybe. Not sure about the washing it out part!

[BinksToEnlightenment]

You know what? I hate them for the same reason I hate scented baby wipes. I don't want to smell a cheap flowery fragrance when I'm on the shitter. I'll get vivid smell association every time I open the packet.

And it's never a nice cheap flowery smell. It's always some rank bargain bin style perfume that I wouldn't have been smelled dead in even at age thirteen.

[fluffyraggies]

Who does the market research for these things i'd like to know?

What group of women sat around a table and told the marketing people 'hmm, yes, on the whole i would choose a tampon that made my fanny smell like a flower over a plain one'.

FGS