AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

My DH after many years of my moaning, switched to a roll on. And the house smells much better!

Nope: i hate the stuff

the window is usually open

i can't be around sprays I can't breathe. Dp has to go in a different room to spray his deodorant.I can't think of anything worse than that an air freshener spray in the bathroom

Air fresheners smell worse than shit and give me a headache, so no. Plus with an open window, the whole thing can be relatively discreet, spraying that stuff announces to the world "I have just done a massive stinky shit".

To be honest, after researching toilet safety for the last few years, if I saw an old fashioned air freshener unit pointing in my direction, I would be checking to see if it had a hidden camera in it.

Don’t know anyone who uses them.

I don’t know how much people are shitting or what kind of food you’re eating needing a toilet brush after using the toilet, is it really necessary after use? I have a toilet brush that was used for cleaning the bathroom on its weekly deep clean.
If so, put a layer on tissue into the toilet before using it.

honestly, it's so weird that people prefer to risk their health with synthetic chemicals vs put up with a temporary bad smell.

Yabu. Air fresheners smell horrible and are bad for us & the environment. Just open the window.

My son insisted I buy a toilet brush when we moved house. I'd always just put bleach down. My then husband said that wasn't cleaning the loo, just covering the poo.

I also have asthma and pets so wouldn't have any sprays. I did try the coloured tablets in the cistern but it's too much faff to take the lid off and I wouldn't bother again. I used diffusers as my bathroom is tiny and I wanted the house to smell nice but they are finished and the hose smells fine now. For those saying they just use bleach and when it's mentioned as for health and environmental reasons, isn't bleach as bad?

I don't use spray air fresheners simply because we have a cat, and some can be toxic. The plugin ones can be even more toxic for animals.

I'd be hoping they'd remove the revolting toxic chemical "air fresheners". Air destroyers more like.

No, just open the window and close the door

Men clean toilets? Dates and times please🤣

I do not know what is in them but they are a migraine trigger for me

our toilet has a large window which w open to freshen the air

that way you get actual fresh air 😁😁😁

OP would hate my house! No air freshener, no reed diffusers, no bowls of pot pourri, no scented candles - nothing that will affect my breathing or give my husband a migraine. We have managed almost 40 years of marriage without having any of the above in our home. Never needed it despite having raised children and had cats who became very elderly!

Yabu. Some people don't like the chemicals in the air. Their toilet their choice.

Never! I don’t have shy bowels, I have incredibly polite ones. Unless you have bowel issues, and I feel incredibly sorry for anyone who does, there’s just no need.

Air fresheners, scented candles, diffusers are essentially chemicals. It’s thought they can interfere with your hormones and cause health issues. Once I read that it even made me question perfume. And I honestly wish I hadn’t read it, because I bloody love a scented candle.

Same but some people have conditions so can’t help it. Not having a window in a bathroom is disgusting.

Shit plus noxious air freshener results in a terrible, noisome pong. I know this from growing up with a dad who’d have a long a stinky dump, then liberally spray the downstairs loo with Glade or the like.

I have never bought a spray air freshener in my life.

Air freshener is frightfully common/non-U so you won't find much support for it on Mumsnet! I don't know anyone who has it in their home. Open the window, make sure the extractor fan works, and in extremis, light a match.

Trust Mumsnetters to have perfect poos

Also not every family leaves skid marks going down the toilet. I also have no toilet brush and there doesn’t seem to be marks.

Some peoples poo doesn’t smell. It hits the water quick and is flushed away.

You couldn’t tell that I have done a poo there is no after smell unless I’m ill with the runs or something.

There are some people who leave clouds of poo smell in the toilet but it’s normally men or women with bowel issues.

I've never bought a spray air freshener in my forty-three years and I'm not going to start now. Open the window.