AIBU to expect air freshener in toilets when visiting friends?

[HangryBrickShark]

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.

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

A press is a cupboard in Ireland!

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!

"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"

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.

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

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.

Toilet brushes are extremely unhygienic.

We do fine with good ventilation.

Of course someone on here has claimed their shit doesn’t stink! Sure…

I use scented toilet roll to make the bathrooms smell nice

We keep a box of matches and open the window. Air freshener is a last resort.

Yuck no.

I’ve got a reed diffuser and an open window in mine. Haven’t got a loo brush🤢 or a bin either (am ten years post-menopause).

And that overwhelming fug in a caravan 🤢

Yep, my shit definitely doesn't stink!
It might smell a bit, but there isn't that lingering pong that you get from air freshener.

Is there not a risk of an explosion from the toxic gases? 💥

@aterriblemiddleclassfanny

your shit will smell. Vegan diet or not.

@HelenaWaiting

skids in the toilet aren’t great either.
I know which id prefer…

I'm baffled as to why you think a man is more likely to need to poo..?! Especially considering your username @hotmumshit
We don't have air fresheners because we don't want random manmade chemicals flying around us any more than necessary.

this is why the planet is fucked. We can’t even ablute without using some short chemical in an aluminium and plastic container for after

either I am weird or you are

Vegans have the worst nuclear death shits.

Just open the window. The smell of air freshener just adds an extra layer of awfulness.

This is very weird.

How do you clean the loo without a brush?

Air fresheners are a bit naff. Fresh air is better.