I usually find that it does the job, but then I usually get an air neutralizer, not any of those nasty stink bombs in a can. However, everynow and then the wife buys some truly horrid smelling spray stuff. When that happens, and have to lay down a particularly wicked dump where the smell strips paint off the walls, the combination of the two makes the apartment smell like a chemical attack just took place.
Neutralizer good, Summer Mountain Apple Peach Breeze bad. Very bad.

I hate when I smell my favorite air freshener mixed with poop so much that I begin to associate the smell of that air freshener with poop, period.
I find the courtesy flush and the fan are better, but I will always have cinnamon spray in the bathroom, because it seems to be the least offensive when mixed with poop.
Kurt's just about soiled every other fragrance for me! He's just plain toxic.
I will say I bought that little thing you put on the wall and push, and it's plain awesome at masking poopie stink, better than any can. I need to get a new little cannister for it.

This reminds me something I find very irritating in public bathrooms. Some of them have these automatic air freshener devices on the wall that periodically inject molecules of potty perfume into the air. I guess I can live with that--even though I'd rather smell my own farts than some of these strange air-flavors.

But what I really don't like is the creaky noise they make when they do the injecting. Has scared the shit outta me (literally) now and then when I think a ghost is in the stall with me or something. (I don't always see these devices when I walk into the stall.)

I find them creepy and insidious, and if ever a terrorist wanted to rig them to inject lethal doses of killer gas into the air, we'd have little recourse until the ruse was discovered.

Death by Nutra Air automatic #456. Commercial model.

Hehehehehe.

I find that lighting a match works best. I light it once done pooping, wiping, and flushing.

TBW, my work just installed one of those in our bathroom. I had just gotten out of the crapper, and going to the sink when *poof!* a cloud of air freshener sprayed out. It made me jump, and I'm glad no one else was in the bathroom to see that.

Putting an air freshner in the bathroom is like putting on deoderant instead of showering--it just creates sweet-smelling stank.

The most effective Liquid Scent Dispenser that I ever encountered was in a night club restroom back in the late Sixties. I don't recall even seeing the mechanism really, but I clearly remember that as I began to dump a rather rancid load of crap comprised of well-digested organic produce, brown rice, and Ballentine draft ale, a horrifically intense and maliferous odor began to assault my entire being.

As a Long Sliding Dook began slithering from my bung, the rancid stank rushed into my nostrils with the ferocity of a thundering herd of buffalo and screamed up my tingling spine, exploding in my cranium like a Heroshimic mushroom of sensory obliviate. I can't really desribe what happened next as "white light." Rather it was more like a cosmic expanse of psychodelic BROWN FOG seemingly composed of sulfuric acid and methane gas.

I can't clearly recall the next several minutes, or maybe it was longer ... who knows, but the next thing I remember is a crashing assault of sound smashing my brown oblivion as another night club customer swung open the bathroom door and the sounds of the band's lame rendition of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" tumbled cacophoniously into the shithouse.

Apparently the entering customer had embibed the same Liquid Social Drink that I had earlier enjoyed, because she immediately began writhing in a Languid Ska Dervish dance of some sort and simply muttered, "Damn, girl. Thats's one Loose-assed Stanky Dookey."

Are you kidding?? No 1/16th inch piece of cardboard (no matter what shape tree, star, dolphin or hula girl) and soaked in artificially strong "perfume" (much like those scented feminine hygene devices that can be smelt from 3 rooms away) can cover the scent of a mighty brown torpedo. Its like the brunettes who bleach their hair blond. At first you may be fooled, but after further investigation......brown is brown

personally, I don't hide the stink, or I use the fan.

However, my Grandma has a 50-75% effective cover up method. She puts baby powder in the toilet.

2 words......Cinnamon shit

Nothing worse than smelling the delightful scent of Christmas with the acrid insides of my bowels.
Matches for me.
It's not that I'm a shameful shitter, I think of it as lighting a match for peace.....amen

Lysol works

My goodness, someone is trying to tell us they like the Liquid Crystal Display on their laptop. Or, are they just whacked out

What???

Air freshers are like exponents on the smell of poop. With that said, I am not for air fresheners.

I am waiting for a dingleberry scented candle. That would leave the next bathroom user guessing.

I don't think they work too well. When I used to use the bathroom in the basement, the one that my former live-in babysitter used, she would tell me to light the candle near the sink so the bathroom would smell like cookies and poo. It kind of defeats the purpose, all those fresheners, the combination is much more nausiating then refreshing

Where I work they have automatic Air Freshners they spray out every two Minintes there Great!!!!

Several years ago, my best friend and I moved in with my mom for a bit. She had one of those sea shell style air fresheners on the back tank. It was all about the decor... Not a word on it to let you know that it was loaded with a spray. I'd seen 'em before, so I used it everytime I shit. It was a very good spray, because it covered my stank up, and I can dummy up a bathroom. One day, after blowing some serious dirt, I came out and, in jest, said I didn't know what I'd been eating, but my shit smelled like vanilla. Well, My bud didn't know that the sea shell was a spray and flipped out when I said that. He said he'd looked all over the bathroom looking for the can of spray, but couldn't find it. He was convinced that I shit vanilla. I just smiled and wished it were true.

yes a good reverse maw deserves some artificial freshening. Obviously only for a roomate, or spouse. using air freshener for your own shit and spin if you live alone is odd. It's your crocodile dungee no need .

wow trust an american to set up a site like this.
anyhow I think that ventilation and vanilla scented thingys work best but the pine scented antibacterial/freshner is horrid it's worse than the poo smell

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!

I've noticed that a can of air freshener in the workplace bathroom is standard. Wo betide the cubicle inhabitant who doesn't spritz the air when he is done.

What I have to ask is...WHY?!?! The only thing it accomplishes it to make it smell like someone shit a pine tree.

I am a 13 year old boy and recently have been looking on your websites. I have posted something on 'Pooping Naked' and 'Clothes Encounters of the Turd Kind',

We don't use air-fresheners in our bathrooms, and at my grammar-school toilets I don't think they would make any difference.

I do not leave much of a smell when I have been sitting on the toilet, partly I reckon because we eat healthy food, and partly because I am regular in my bowel habits.

Because I have to leave the house before 8 o'clock to get the 'bus for school, I have a tight routine. I need to be pulling my trousers down by 7.35 at the latest. When I am 'done and dusted', I put some scented bleach down the toilet, and then put the seat and lid down.

Our cleaner starts work at 9, so I think any vestige of smell has gone by then.

My mother says that air-fresheners do not get to the bottom of smells.

I don't need air fresheners - My shit don't smell. Impossible you say? Ha! I dare say it don't have no nose! I never stick around long enough to find out if it stinks - I am a power shitter. I leave that for the next person to ponder...

If you ever want a nuclear shit that will peel mold off the walls, try downing a load of eggnog laced with gin, then some rum-'n-cokes, then a platter of scrambled eggs with blue cheese melted on top, then smoke a joint, order pizza with anchovies, and finish off with meat ravioli and vodka...........WOW! The next day you'll be hurting...............

I hate those air fresheners they use in K-Mart, Wal-Mart, Fred Meyer, and Albertsons. They wreak of freshly shat diapers. I guess the philosophy is that if it already smells like shit then you don't have to clean it up as often.

I want to kill that son of a bitch who invented Odour ala Shit.

Being a college student working as a janitor to get throug school, I will tell you that those stupid ass scented sprays do absolutely nothing against the smell of strong poop except make an even more wretched smell. I want to rip those stupid auto-spray things off the walls.

I would like to punch the guy that invented them. Mango or cinnamon scented SHIT STENCH is still a fucking SHIT STENCH.

Dammit.. somewhere I saw a nice poem pointing out that I'd rather smell a fart than be attacked by a mutant pine forest sented fart. Anyone know where I could find it?

The restrooms at work are right down the hall from my office. Whenever anyone sprays that damn crap around my eyes start to water, my throat closes up and I get royally PO'd.

Gotta agree with Baron von Pooptoven - covering it up with some overwhelming perfume just makes it worse.

I've thrown the damn stuff out any number of times, and it just keeps reappearing. I think I'm gonna track down the source and stop it there.

Bletch!

Try installing a exaust fan.

I have found scented matches in the local hippy-tofu-granola store. These work supprisingly well.
The smell of a spray air freshner and shit is absolutly one of the grossest things I can think of. Even stink would say that its stink.

Merde

Ay, anybody know the chemical reaction of shit and matches lighting up?? thx

I've found that Pure Citrus Orange (by North American)works best for offensive Poo. Here at my shop, we have two crappers and 4 "husky" guys working, who all enjoy greasy bugers and Mexican food. Had the paint not fallen off the walls years ago, our stench wouldn't be making splinters of the frame just yet. The Citrus Orange makes working in the after lunch fog bearable.

However, I can't seem to pallete Tropicana in the morning, anymore.

Shit smell: bad enough.

Shit smell plus air freshener: even worse.

We seem to have a few cretins here at work who think that Lysol is some magic shit-b-gone chemical, and spray about 1/2 can every time. It takes four times as long for the poor overworked fan to clear that combo sludge as it would the ordinary bouquet.

What's worse is when a woman who hasn't changed her pad in a long time comes into the bathroom. By this point her crotch smells like a decomposing flesh and she gets blood all over her hands and thus the floor, walls, and handles of everything. She then tries to mask her odor by spraying Lysol. Lovely odor! Just lovely!

Yeah, Lysol was not meant to be sprayed into the AIR. It's a surface disinfectant! It smells FAR worse than most bodily functions, if you ask me.

The same goes for matches. I hate the smell of matches; it just smells like smoking poop!

I dislike actual air fresheners; they're too invasive. We have found (accidentally, really) that body spray (like from Bath & Body Works) works really well! It comes in a abundance of lovely scents, it totally covers the stink, yet it dissipates quickly, so you're not smothered. A bottle lasts a very long time.

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I CAN'T go to work today. The voices said to stay home and clean the guns!

Air fresheners are a bunch of bullcrap. I'd rather soak in a tide of my own dookie particles any day before spraying any air freshener...especially the vanilla, what idiot thought of this, seriously....that has got to be the worst smell on earth, vanilla poopie. Holy fuck man! That guy should have to sit in a room and eat a pile of my dump topped off with a bottle of vanilla extract.

Lysol is not an air freshner. God people are stupid! I'm so sick of people spraying that disinfectant in the air, and have me hacking and choking on it! It just kills germs on surfaces! You might as well go around spraying bug spray in the air and then calling it fresh! The stupid scent of lysol only helps to keep the effects of puking your guts out to a minimum! I wish people would just learn that.

Yes, but because Lysol is available in so many scents, the product made the leap from surface disinfectant (which it still is) to use as an air deodorant.

If you google Lysol, you will learn that it is now marketed as BOTH.

The exhaust fan in our crapper at work doesn't do anything. And someones bizness is absolutely toxic!

Febreeze or some other neutralizing spray are the only things that can tame the odor. I can't praise that stuff enuf.

_I think the sprays that neutralize the air work best. I have some medical grade that kills the smell and there is no potpourri-shit smell. ______
Producing waste since 1967

Yes Simone I happen to agree with ya. You need that Oust or something that neutralizes NOT cover up.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

Air fresheners do NOT neutralize odors, much less kill germs "in the air." No wonder America is following leaders that are as stupid as Bush - because they will believe anything people tell them. It's obvious that 99.999% of my classmates were not learning anything in science class.

When I dump a load of my favorite dukie, something like rotten 3 day old lasangia mixed with spicy mexican burritos, I know there is nothing that is going to make is smell any sweeter, you know, that thick stinky smell of sweet shit, that smells so bad that makes you want to run away from the contaminated air.

Air fresheners such as SC Johnson's Glade Plugins have already been proven to cause asthma in children, even while SC Johnson is touting their big asthma awareness campaign in Los Angelas. People that believe that plugins, Oust, Febreeze, Lysol, and all that other crap either 'neutralizes odors' or is good for you... well, they are so stupid that they deserve to get asthma, or what ever other strange and weird desease they might end up with ten years from now. As for the scented laundry detergents, they are making my backyard stink to high heaven and nobody has the right to take away my fresh air.

I think the air freshener is a required evil. I know that when I shit, especially at work, and especially where the restroom is a co-ed one, I need to have that air freshener handy. It is a catch 22, because either way, the next co-worker that goes in there will know that you took a big shit. The worst though is when I walk out of the co-ed bathroom at the office, and a lady is right outside it waiting for me, and I just sprayed a half of can of Lysol. How mortifying is that?

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Bruce S.

The smell of air fresheners give me headaches. I try to stay away from harmful chemicals. With the use of an exhaust fan, I can have an environmentally friendly poop.

Hey Toilet Expert...I don't know about you...but the co-ed bathrooms at a lot of the offices I work at have fans...and guess what???? They are NO match for most the IBS induced shits that I have and its lingering fallout afterwards...I would think twice b4 I shit in a bathroom with no air freshener on the toilet tank...

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Bruce S.

I personally do not like air freshener, but when bathroom smell get to be intense, air freshener is a must.
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"Two percent of the population think; three percent of the population think they think, and 95 percent of the population would rather die than think."

my roommate introduced me to lysol. it's better than air freshener. it makes the poop stench go away faster. it doesn't smell great, but if you leave the door open and go keep yourself occupied it's gone faster than you realize.

in response to The Shit Volcano (3283) -- 02.11.2006

there is a woman at work who stinks up the lou like the fish department in an asian grocery store. it's the worst. i can't even go in the bathroom if she's been in there, and everyone KNOWS when she's been in there.... yet no one knows who she is...the stench hits you like 27936497 bricks and it permeates the hallway by the bathroom. the smell is then covered up by glade. probably the kind that smells like baby powder. who does that?!

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all aboard the farty train to pooterville..if you can't shit at my house, we aren't friends

my hippie friends have this thing called a composting toilet. I'm not sure how it works but it's basically some kind of mechanical longdrop. Anyway I used it for the first time yesterday and was surprised to discover that there was absolutely no odor. I looked at a website shortly afterwards which reports that it is one of the benefits of this design. Even though I could look down into the chamber and see my grog bog and scrunched up paper laying there i could not smell a thing. So if the smell of shit offends you but the sight of it doesn't then I suggest you fork out (whatever they cost) and buy yourselves one. They save water too.

The airfreshener in my bathroom is Apple Spice

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Russell

Air freshener should be banned. Nothing makes shit smell good. Best thing to do is turn on the fan and open a window (if your bathroom has one).

Hey Russell......I rank apple spice shit right up there with spring shower shit or citrus medley shit. Probably my all time favorite is alpine forest shit.

I recently discovered two delightful new scents
called "roman soldiers armpit" and "viking on the potty", ahhhhhh.

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Eat chilies and feel the burn!!

How about "decomposing road kill" and "cattle drive ramrod butt crack". Now there are a couple of scents.