Air fresheners are the devil’s work

[cheeselolly]

This week a kind colleague offered me a lift to the station for a long distance journey home.

The car journey was only 10 minute but felt like torture.

They had a clip on air freshener on BOTH air vents. One blowing directly in my face on my
side of the car. The other on their side.

It Was cold out so windows were closed.

My lungs nearly collapsed from the chemical riddled, fake, toxin laden hot air blowing sickly overpowering perfume air freshener into my lungs.

YANBU - air fresheners are the work of the devil and should be banned

YABU - they are lovely

I didn't miss your point, @excelledyourself ,you missed mine.

Oh you'd hate me, 3volution plug ins in every room

Shake n vac and then a carpet spray

Fabric spray that traps and destroys pet odours

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But i really refuse to have a thread started about the bad smell in my flat!

Horrible, horrible toxic things. The first thing I do in any Airbnb is unplug the plugins and put the diffusers in a cupboard.

As well as being bad for health and the environment they are really bad for pets, they get on their fur and then they ingest them when they clean themselves.

I do think they should be banned OP and it's not just because 'I don't like them'.

Hate car air fresheners. I immediately bin the ones the valet guys put in my car.

But I have just sat down and switched on my Neom diffuser, which I think smells lovely.

Whatever it is they put in that makes me want to vomit. I think it might be one of those things that only people can smell, like freesias, only evil.

Yeah they're awful. I have a very lovely friend who has a plethora of reed diffusers/scented candles/plug in air fresheners and I really struggle in her house. I think she's overly paranoid about bad smells and overcompensating but I get an awful headache within 10 minutes of being in her house.

I hate them too. Migraine inducing yuck.