The Price of Tides

Different Tide products

The scent on the right is Mountain Breeze (with the green stripe), priced at $5.77 at a Walmart in Chicago. The one on the left (with the blue stripe) is clean breeze, priced at $7.54. It seems that the folks at Tide value certain elements more than others.

Or maybe it’s the result of extensive surveys where they found that people would pay more for their clothes to smell like air than spring water. Any thoughts? Do you have an elemental rank list?

(P.S. My mountain spring-fragranced clothes smell just fine.)

7 comments

  1. @Balu,

    Good catch but that bottle is actually closer. They’re the same size.

    @Conall: yeah, “bubbling volcano” might not be a popular scent choice either.

  2. Why don’t they ever come out with really cool scents, like chocolate?

    Or tacos?

    Or single malt?

    Yeah… that’s what I want my clothes to smell like!

  3. @Jordan: an excellent point. The companies make candles that smell like fresh laundry but the laundry companies seem to be bent on making fresh laundry like anything but fresh laundry. It’s ironic.
    (I feel like there’s a standup comedy one-liner in here somewhere)

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