Treatment of fabric with perfume/cyclodextrin complexes

An article of manufacture consisting essentially of:

• I. a fabric conditioning composition comprising:
• i. from about 30% to about 99% of fabric softening agent selected from the group consisting of:
• cationic fabric softener;
• nonionic fabric softener;
• and mixtures thereof;
• and
• ii. from about 0.5% to about 60% of perfume/cyclodextrin complex;
• and
• II. a dispensing means which provides for release of an effective amount of said composition to fabrics in a laundry dryer at said laundry dryer's operating temperatures whereby an effective amount of said perfume/cyclodextrin complex is attached to said fabrics, when they are dry, so that said fabrics exhibit substantial odor of said perfume upon rewetting.

A detergent-compatible, laundry dryer-activated fabric conditioning composition in particulate form consisting essentially of:

• I. from about 30% to about 99% of fabric softening agent selected from the group consisting of;
• cationic fabric softener;
• nonionic fabric softener;
• and mixtures thereof;
• and
• II. from about 0.5% to about 60% of perfume/cyclodextrin complex, said composition being capable of attaching an effective amount of said perfume/cyclodextrin complex to fabrics in a laundry dryer at said laundry dryer's operating temperatures, whereby said fabrics, when they are dry, exhibit substantial odor of said perfume upon rewetting.