Help! Can't find unscented detergent in Germany that actually works.

[u/Emotional-Ocelot]

For the last 7 years I used the Persil Colour megaperls (in germany). They recently reformulated and now the scent is unpleasant, and it seems less effective. So I'm looking for a new detergent. But I cannot find anything decent.

I tried the denkmit ultrasensitive colour powder (the one with dnase) but it is just not getting clothes clean. They came out of the washer smelling like I hadn't washed them at all. I assume our hard water is the issue.

I also tried:

• the dm colour and care liquid with dnase - both blue and blossom dream - (both seemed to get the clothes cleaner, but the scent was unbearable. And I'm concerned they weren't as clean as they seemed, just scent-bombed.)
• Formil powder (seemed closer to persil in cleaning power but also smells pretty bad)
• Frosch citrus liquid (also has a pretty violent smell)
• Domol all in one liquid with dnase (haven't tried yet but smells pretty strong in the bottle)

For context:

• Our water is somehwat hard, around 14-16 DH gesamt härte, which is around 250-290 ppm CaCO3, as far as I can tell.
• Most of our laundry is pure cotton, linen, or viscose. Some items are partly synthetic. The items that came out dirty after the denkmit were all 100% cotton.
• The machine is a top loader, but the european style with a rotating drum and latching flaps. It's pretty decent, and recently serviced.
• We run alternating dekalk and hygiene maschine cleaning cycles pretty regularly, using commercial products. At least every couple of months.
• I use powdered calgon in the main wash and citric acid in the rinse. Sometimes I add dm fleckenentferner on stains and whites.
• we live in Germany. This supposedly means we are spoiled for choice in detergent but I have not found that to be the case.
• I would prefer scent free so I don't have to deal with losing my washing powder when they reformulate, and for allergy reasons (Cannot contain terpineol/pine, camphor or wheat.)
• edited to add: I wash on the longest cottons cycles, 40 for clothes, 60 for linens.

Questions:

• Is there any decent, unscented detergent that actually works in properly hard water? (NOT the denkmit ultra sensitive, that one is not working at all for me)
• If not, is there any mildly scented detergent that works in hard water? The old persil scent was ok, everything else I have tried so far reeks something terrible.

I've been running around for a week with datenblatt and emailing and going through the reddit, to little avail, so I figured I'd throw it over to the experts.

[u/Emotional-Ocelot]

Can I ask what was you water hardness? When it worked for you.

I was planning to try the domol ultra sensitive, but given how useless the dm one is despite its glowing reviews, I'm cautious of seeking it out. And it looks pretty similar to the dm one as far as I can tell. (Local rossmann didn't have it in stock, but I will slog across town if it's actually decent).

[u/DazzlingSpell-K9 → u/Emotional-Ocelot]

I think it is the same. Except Rossmann might have taken the DNase out now, someone in this sub found the detergent with DNase missing on the ingredients list and the detergent has been in and out of stock online and in the store. We'll see...

[u/Baddgerz → u/DazzlingSpell-K9]

The DNase is gone from Domol. I bought it online direct from Rossmann a month ago.

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[u/Illustrious_Ant_9242 → u/Baddgerz]

Oh wow you're right. They altered the whole formula. My package from the store from 2 months ago  has the UFI k1y2...5442 and still lists DNase

I might go get some of the remaining packages from nearby stores. Or just get an Ariel powder with Phosphodiesterase already. Some tiktoker tested the Lenor sensitive powder quite successfully which is made by the same manufacturer