AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

Toilet brushes are extremely unhygienic.

I am anaphylactic allergic to some synthetic fragrances and mildly allergic to others. We don’t allow fragrance products in our home.

Spraying them in public is antisocial and dangerous. They do not belong in the workplace.

Air fresheners smell worse than what they're masking and they just draw attention to the problem.

I worked in a woolworths in the 90s where several of the customers reeked.

I would have chosen the reek over the smell of the air freshener that the manager used to use after they left.

Air freshener is an abomination. As are those electric diffusers. And plug in air freshener. And scented candles in a lot of cases. We simply open a window.

"The final word in masking turd"

"If your Eartha is a stencher, treat your nose to a scent adventure"

"When you've gotta drop an otter, be a sweetie, not a rotter"

It shouldn't linger that long after being flushed. Maybe if you have a stomach bug or something, but generally speaking it is gone fairly quickly, especially if you open the window.

I find the smell of air freshener like a descant over the top of a base note of stink quite stomach-churning. It doesn't disguise it, just forms a kind of chorus.

I don't mind a room scent or diffuser like the Diptique or Jo Malone ones, but those are for scenting neutral rooms and I don't think they are intended to meld with fecal notes.

You sometimes smell people on the tube who smell of sweat or body odour, then they have this sickly whiff of scent layered over it, clearly intending to disguise the underlying pong - and it doesn't work!

A press is a cupboard in Ireland!

Some people don't want a coughing fit! Lighting a match can help.

Those Glade spray things give me migraine that can last for days. Chemical perfumes are dangerous for some.

Agree with PP - air freshener is not masking any smell of shit. It’s much worse smelling floral or fruity spray mingled with shit 😂.

At my work, someone has left a bottle of fake Baccarat Rouge (which I can’t stand anyway) in the toilet so now we have toilet smells enhanced by cheap perfume. Grim.

They never get rid of the smell, only add Synthetic sickly smell on top 🤢

When I lived at home there was a tiny WC with the only toilet, the air freshener would be sprayed after every poo the family had and I could always smell both, so the smell of air freshener makes me feel sick. Poo time here involves bleach poured around the pan after and the window left open

What's a press?

This. Crack a window and let it waft out. Spraying air freshener just means you create a funk of perfumed poo.

I can't stand synthetic air freshener smells.

YABU not everyone likes air freshener I don’t like the spray ones they make me cough I have a Febreze toilet freshener in my bathroom. You’re complaining about people not having air fresheners in their bathrooms but then turn round and say “I get some people may be affected by asthma but surely if you had asthma you wouldn't use it?” 2 things firstly that’s not a question so no need for the question mark and secondly what is that even suppose to mean that makes no sense.

Nothing says you’ve just done a massive dump like a spray of air freshener.

The OP said she used it after a wee. That’s what I was referring to in the second part of my post.

The best air freshener is an open window.

Same. They all smell god awful and are so bad for you and for the environment. Just total toxic pointless poison.

Spraying Glade around the bathroom just advertises that you've been for a poo in someone else's house. Yuck.

I'm confident that my shit smells nicer than your Glade spray.

Yes, but 99.9% of air fresheners actually smell worse than poo, so you are just disguising one bad smell with another bad smell which is pointless.

Also, they are really bad for you, and especially so in an enclosed space, whereas poo smell is not actually toxic to the body when breathed in.

Needless to say we don’t have them.

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

why would I put something int he bathroom that can't be used? It doesn't matter who sprays the tin

Definitely works.

This sounds a bit paranoid, why so much bleach - are you touching the inside of the bowl?

Whatever you do, don't read those stories explaining how there's way more bacteria on smartphones than there is on the toilet!