AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

Do you mean air bnb type places or family and friends?

And quite a lot of people only have one toilet (gasp!) and it may not have a window 😱

Shit smells but air fresheners are spray poison in a bottle. When I stay anywhere I remove any on a timer and hide them in a cupboard!

All shit smells.
I said you could enter the bathroom after me and not smell it. Which is not untrue. It doesn't reek or linger or require anything other than getting rid of it (i.e flushing the loo). I have never been paranoid after someone going in the bathroom after me. And I certainly wouldn't use anything artificial to cover it up.
As I've already said,eating crap food and or drinking a lot of alcohol (if I've been on holiday and veered from healthy habits) I can tell the difference. But most people would rather smell horse poo over dog poo. Eating meat makes poo smell worse. It's just reality.

But you can't open a window in everyone's loo.

If you're going to stink your friends toilets out OP take your own air freshener with you.

No they don't. They just dislike artificial smells.

We don't use the downstairs loo for anything other than wees, so it won't smell of anything. I open the window in it regularly as well so it smells of fresh air

People who are into air freshener - is it because, even though it doesn’t actually cover up the smell, at least it shows you care about leaving a smell and have tried to do something about it?

This thread reminds me of being shown a flat with one toilet, no window, directly opposite the front door. I couldn’t live there.

I would make sure I went before visiting a friend’s house and hold it in until I got home.

Presumably all those people who are horrified by air freshener think their shit doesn’t stink 🤣

Or they only shit in their own homes even if they go away for days!

I’d never poo on somebody else’s loo anyway, I only go on my own toilet.

Just carry a small box of wooden matches with you. One match after a poo and it's all gone. Then, please wet the match before you toss it in the garbage.

Generally, when you visit people, you use their downstairs toilet. Hell would freeze over before I did a poo in someone's toilet that opened into a hallway area. Since menopause I have to make sure I poop before leaving the house in the morning. If I don't my body will decide ,in the afternoon , that it is going and it is going NOW.

I get some people may be affected by asthma but surely if you had asthma you wouldn't use it?

If they weren't going to use it, surely that would explain why they don't have it? And if it impacts them negatively, they're hardly going to stock it for other people to use in a space where they will have to smell it.

Being vegan helps, I have a very sensitive nose and can often smell things others can't detect at all, but there's a reason dog muck smells worse than horse muck. Meat=more pungent poo.

I do agree that the smell of poo coupled with a flowery smell is really disgusting. Not that I like the scent of poo but it is much worse when air freshener is added. Its like it sticks to it!

And yes, terrible for the environment too.

Nothing worse than air freshener and poo mixed together and the smell lasts much longer. I have a window behind my toilet which is open most of the time anyway.

PIL had air fresheners in every room, they also smoked and didn’t open windows. The air in their house was like a fog. MIL bought me a pile of them once so my house could smell ‘fresh’ and I threw them in the bin.

I hate air freshener. I'd rather open a window.

Wow, I’d annoy you then. No chemical shite to spray about in my house, I’d rather you opened a window. I hate the stuff.

That makes you sound, quite frankly, more weird.

You can if you go out of the loo and then go back in!

I tried this the other day. It makes absolutely no difference to any odours.

We don’t have air freshener because shit mixed with artificial flowers is no nicer than just shit. Air freshener never hides the smell. We do have a bottle of VIPoo though!

If this concerned me I'd carry some of those loo drops you can buy.

You can’t smell your own shit. It’s a thing.

YABU. Air fresheners cause indoor pollution which is known to be bad for human health.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26354370/

The above talks about the volatile organic compounds that air fresheners release and “These pollutants then adversely affect human health, in many ways such as damage to the central nervous system, alteration of hormone levels, etc.”

Open the window. Much healthier. Also helps to reduce humidity levels.