AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

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Is there an expectation that people's toilets should have an air freshener in? Like a spray air freshener?

We always have air freshener in both our toilets in case friends or family get caught short when visiting us or even to freshen the bathroom after having a wee if necessary, so I hate it if I go to a friend/family members house and they have none.

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

We have a glade air freshener at work that sprays into the space where the wash handbasins are for example.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

I really dislike the smell of air fresheners. We have windows in our bathroom so I tend to leave the transom one slightly ajar. In the downstairs loo where there is no window, there is an extractor fan. I also have Aesop poo drops by the side of the toilet and these work well.

This. Febreze makes me gag: it doesn’t get rid of the shit smell it just masks it but layers on a cheap, nasty sweet smell on top. Just open a window.

YABU!

Everyone will know you had a poo whether you use air-freshener or not! Actually, they will know for sure you had a poo if you had to use air-freshener! And poo smell mixed with air-freshener is probably a worse smell than just poo!

My parents starting keeping air fresheners by the loos when my father had bowel cancer. I didn’t ask about it.
Mum stopped getting them after Dad died. They just put an extra layer of sickly, sweet perfume into the mix with the existing odours anyway. Makes me feel sick.

Yeah, I don't want to leave a pong if I can help it. I always do my best to alleviate smells, open a window if possible, and if there is air-freshener, spray a bit into the loo bowl before pooping, more effective, and less intrusive.

My ex-FIL used to retire to the toilet for about half an hour each morning with his pipe and his newspaper and never opened a window or tried to do anything about the apalling stench he left. It was horrific, and bad enough in their own house, but he also did it in our very small house when he visited. I stopped caring about offending him eventually and would open the window before he went in, plus nearest windows in the house, then when he emerged, go straight in after him, re-open the window he had closed, spray the room and squirt bleach round the bowl.

I have a nice essential oils one. No nasty chemical smells.

I can't bear air freshener! I use aerosols as little as possible anyway - not because of their impact on the environment but because I can't bear the stink. Until a couple of years ago I used reed diffusers, but then I had chemo and got really sensitive to smells so had to stop using them. The nearest I had ever come to using an air freshener is a neutradol gel freshener. It's much less highly scented than the others - it doesn't try to mask smells, it just makes them slightly less obnoxious. I am a great believer in an open window, or an extractor fan if it's too cold to leave the window open.

Please could you repost this without being rude about boomers?

We don't. It's never even crossed my mind. We have been known to come out of the loo and say "I wouldn't go in there for a few minutes if I were you" but anyone that comes to our house, we know well enough to make a joke of it.

I’ve never had them. Poo doesn’t smell nice but it doesn’t give me migraines so it’s definitely the lesser of two evils. I think a lot of people really struggle with the artificial scent in air fresheners so would prefer not to have them in their houses

So many people strangely hung up on natural bodily functions, everyone shits and everyone's shit smells. Just open a window in the room afterwards.

We have a couple of cook's candles tah are lit of there is a particularly.persisten or bad smell but if you air and clean your house regularly there is no need for air fresheners or diffusers.

Incidentally this is why I would never buy a property with a windowless toilet or bathroom.

No, I just value being able to breathe and staying alive above avoiding a couple of seconds being exposed to a mildly offensive smell.

An allergic reaction for me could be as mild as just causing a bit of irritation and a cough or it could kill me, depending on how well I'm feeling in general and how many other triggers I've been exposed to that day.

If it's summer and I've spent all day in a dusty office, around cat or rodent owners while being exposed to grass pollen and strong perfumes and deodorants (just shower and use a roll on before you leave the ffs) and I have a mild cold and then I'm exposed to a cloud of air freshener on top of that, I'm at least going to need a prescription strength anti histamine and a strong dose of steroids.

If rather be exposed to a few seconds of a bad smell than spending hours in AandEbwaiting for a nebulizer and dose of steroids whilst wanting to tear my own skin off and not being able to breathe.

If your wee smells so bad you have to spray air freshener then please see a doctor, it can be a sign your kidneys aren't working properly.

Congrats

Enjoy your holiday

Imagine the doorbell goes just as you're finishing off, having done your worst in there... the toilet door would fan the pong cloud out to just behind the front door, lurking in wait; then your poor unsuspecting visitor would get a faceful to greet them and would probably wilt right there on your doorstep!!

The only thing that will freshen air is changing the air in the room, not blasting a load of Diamond Orchid into it. It's like a teenager spraying Lynx on when the reek of BO. They now smell of BO and Lynx, which is arguably worse.

Open the window, close the door behind you. Matches work remarkably well if you want something to cover it. Also, if you flush as soon as it hits the water it's gone and there nothing to smell.