What is the scent of line dried clothing?

Can you smell sunshine? Is something created in the fabric? Or is it the smell of cotton, unmasked by so many scented products and dirt? Just wondered...I like it.

I love to line dry my clothes. I did for years but now I live too close to a dirt road. I think it smells like the wind or I don't know, nature. Does that sound corny? Maybe its like you said it smells good with the absence of all those other products. Anyway it is a wonderful smell.

I know sushine has weight. Why can't it have fragrance, as well. I love the outdoorsy smell.

There is nothing better than crawling into a bed that has been freshly laundered and hung out to dry. I love it, even if the sheets are a bit scratchy. I don't mind scratchy unless I'm sunburned. ;)

Joan I was going to write the exact same thing--loooooove that smell and crisp feel! Not going to get it here this week!

I'm not going to get that here for 4 or 5 months! They need to make a dryer sheet that replicates this. I'd pay premium for it. LOL

Hmmmm.........
Such a philosophical question....

Of course--I love that smell too. I also LOVE fresh mowed hay and fresh horse manure. It has been half a a lifetime that I have had a chance to smell that! Yes! I am weird too.....

I think it might be the fresh air and sunshine interacting with the fragrance of the laundry detergent.
Maybe in the dryer--that all gets "cooked out"....Then--we add dryer sheets that smell too strong, and then that is all we can smell. There are "fresh scents" in dryer sheets.....I do not like the heavy floral scents.

Sally--You come up with some doozies for a topic, but then there isn't much to talk about when we are not gardening.....

Gita

Once I had some laundry ready to take off of the line that was a real challenge to deal with. Apparently a skunk had gotten scarred while passing by. Fortunately it was a small load. I wont try to describe the aroma, but will tell you that I discarded the items in a tightly tied garbage bag.
Thought this might bring a chuckle or two to the group!!
Sheri

Wow- too bad! that has never happened to me, luckily. I am chuckling.
Isn't it funny that you almost never have bird accidents on laundry even tho they like to sit on poles?

By the way, I don't put my son's 'shorts' out anymore since they noticed we sometimes have tiny spiders on the line. The boys are fraidy cats about spiders.

We get very tall Poke weed (remember the song: "Poke Salad Annie"), that get big purple berries, rellished by most all of the birds. That was one of my big fears, because that stain does not come out.
I do love the smell of line dried linens though! (at least those without the skunk or poke additions! =D )

We have poke weeds too. I have a picture somewhere of two of my kids, around ages five and seven, when they had painted each other with poke juice. Its so pretty! No harm done. They weren't eating them.