The outdoors has an unpleasant smell now
Has anyone noticed it?
Laundry used to smell so nice and fresh when dried outside, now it has a straight up unpleasant strong smell. It smells good and of detergent when dried indoors with windows closed, so it's not a washing machine or cleanliness issue.
I noticed that water has a wet dog smell when poured into a glass. Couldn't figure out why, tried disinfecting and triple washing dishes, and opening a new bottle of spring water. Still the same issue. With some google research I found others complain about it as well, and it's apparently caused by the windows being open. The smell is so strong and terrible that I cannot drink water like that, clean bottled spring water turns into dog wash water when poured into a glass next to an open window or even worse when outdoors.
My hair starts to smell terrible after just 15 minutes outdoors. I have no hygiene or cleanliness issues, quite the opposite, I'm obsessed with hygiene and cleanliness so such changes are especially disturbing for me.
Has anyone else experienced something similar? Why does the outdoors smell terrible now, and not clean and fresh like it used to?
Also, I can't smell nature and seasons like I used to. It seems everything fresh and pleasant is toned down. The spring barely had any scents this year. There's less of the pleasant "after rain" smell as well.
I am not the only one that noticed this, many people around the world reported water having wet dog smell when drinking it near a window our outside, and of laundry no longer smelling fresh and pleasant when dried outdoors.
I know there's pollution, but I don't think it's the only reason for these changes.