Can we please talk about the scent of our pillows for a moment?

I’ve never smelled my pillow – it probably smells like a whole buch of stuff though, lol.

I feel that I sleep better on a freshly laundered pillowcase, because of the scent. So it may be partially true.
I’m fairly certain that my attachment to my pillow is directly related to the comfort level, though. I can tell right away if my husband has swapped our pillows unintentionally.

Its the quality and quantity of the filling that gets me, we should work together to rid the world of smelly half stuffed pillows.
Everyone would be much less grumpy.

Haha I know what you mean. My whole bed has this familiar smell. I guess it just smells like bed, but I love it too when I put my face in the pillows and it smells like that, because as you say, it’s a comforting homey smell. I can never resist the urge to hug them tightly and dig my face in it and then make funny sounds haha. My blankets have the same comfy smell, too.
And that’s also why I hate getting out of bed lol.

I don’t necessarily mind pillow smells from unfamiliar pillows…first of all, I love all pillows! But it’s fun sometimes smelling professionally washed pillows or guest bed pillows, like the ones from my friend’s aunt where we spent Christmas.

Also this question is awesome, I’ve never wrote the word pillow so many times in one answer lol.

I’m not sure that my pillow has a scent, but I know the pillowcase does.

This question reminds me of a man who actually made a pass at me by telling me he’d just washed his pillowcases. I asked him if he needed help finding a good reason to wash all his sheets. We agreed that he did, and we made as much a mess out of them as we could. :)~

Oh, I’m a fucking picky pillow person. It’s all about softness for me. I am terrible when my girlfriend and I are visiting people (staying over) and they have two separate pillows on the bed. I have to test them first to see which one I like. She gets the other, haha..

As far as scent, it tends to smell like my hair and perfume. Not sure about my natural scent. BUT, both my g/f and I like to hold each others pillows when the other one (partner) isn’t there. I can smell her on it and she can smell me. Her natural scent, for me, is a turn on and is comforting (she feels the same way).

Unfamiliar pillows (the smell)? Eh. It doesn’t matter.

@Symbeline “I can never resist the urge to hug them tightly and dig my face in it and then make funny sounds.”
Lmao.
I replaced “them” with “Vunessuh” and reread the sentence and got all horny..

@Everyone Thanks for your answers. GA’s to you all.

@Vunessuh I’m like you as I like the smell of my pillow too.

I kept my mother’s robe after she died because it completely smelled like her.

Oh, I lurve this question! I totally understand what you mean by “my pillow smells like home”. I’ve often thought that about mine. When I snuggle down in my bed after being out of town, the scent of my pillow comforts me so much, and makes my whole body sigh to be back in my own bed again.

I am going to answer your question from a completely different angle.

I am part American Cherokee Indian. for years, my wife has told me that i have a smell all my own. not a smell from after shave or cologne, but, as she decribes it, an indian smell(whatever that means). i do agree that i have oily skin. i am thankful for this, since i have very few face wrinkles at the age of 67.

Apparently, my wife tolerates my smell, since we have been married 45 years.

Indian smell??? what the heck is she talking about??

I think there is something to it being your own scent. I read a while back (at least 6 years because my husband and I were dating at the time) that people in a new, happy, sexually active relationship change their sheets less often because they enjoy the smell of each other on them. They don’t realize this, of course. It isn’t a conscious decision and they don’t know they smell themselves on the sheets.

I am very picky about my pillows and my husband and I seem to be direct opposites. His pillows are way to fluffy! I do snuggle his when I take a nap, though.

Yep, very true. My pillow’s the only pillow that’ll do. My pillow knows me.

Over the last few day spearmint, mint, cinnamon and anything in the minty family. My throat has been hassling me and I tend to fall asleep with throat lozenges in my mouth so I don’t cough myself to death. These melt and sometimes hit the pillow in the RDM stage (rapid dribbling movement).

When my husband was in the hospital for a week, the only way I could be halfway consoled (enough to go to sleep anyway) was to cling to his pillows. They smell like he smells.

I like to spray Lavender scent on the pillows before I put on the pillowcases. Lavender helps to promote restful and peaceful sleep.

I can’t wait to go home and snff my pillow!

@AmWiser I have a “sleepytime spray” I use, that smells like milk and honey. mmmmmm

Unfortunately, if I haven’t used my Chillow, the pillow smells of stale sweat.

@AmWiser I spray my pillows with lavender mist too! I love the scent of lavender, I have it planted near my front door, as well as in the garden :-) I’m generally freaky about my bed linen in a seriously OCD way. I must have the world’s largest collection of bed linen, I buy duvet sets the way some women buy shoes lol. Seriously though, the idea of having sheets/pillowcases/duvet covers etc on my bed longer than two nights in a row creeps the skin right off my body. I know, I know, I need help LOL
huggles xx

My pillow smells like detergent and my Ocean Breeze shampoo, I spray Cucumber Melon perfume on it from time to time to ‘refresh’ it.

I just sniffed my pillow and it smells a little like sour dough bread. Yuck! It is past time for a new pillow.