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Writer's pictureAlex Guerrero

Poo-Pourri: An Olfactory Revolution

A capeless hero is finally making a stand against the dreaded toilet fumes.


Picture of a white toilet in a public bathroom where everything is white.
Poo-Pourri is easy to use and keeps the stench at bay - Photo by Jan Antonin Kolar on Unsplash

Going to the bathroom remains an experience untouched by the advance of technology. You’d think by now toilets would be equipped with laser beams that would vaporize our bodily waste in a nanosecond, but that is yet to happen.


True, a few state-of-the-art commodes equipped with all kinds of bells and whistles do exist, but they’re nothing more than ultra-expensive novelties that in the end do very little against the very thing that defines every toilet experience: the stink.


Yes, the stink


Stink is the reason we arm ourselves with bathroom fans, scented candles, matches, and air fresheners. In the end, all said items do is try to mask the stink and they surely stink at it. The sad part is that we’ve resigned to the idea that stink is smarter than us. We know it’s going to stink and we simply accept it, the same way we have come to accept that we can’t keep rain from falling or wind from blowing.


Please don't judge my TF (toilet fumes)


Going to the bathroom should be a stress-free experience. A moment to take a break and come up with ground-breaking ideas such as the flux capacitor (Back to the Future, anyone?) But how can you relax when all you’re thinking is how will your level of stinkiness be judged by the bathroom’s next user, be it a relative or coworker? To make matters worse, that poor soul won’t say a word when switching places with you in the lavatory, but the way his/her face will contort when hit by the toxic fumes will be more than enough to emotionally scar you for life.


Human beings are at the top of the evolutionary chain, for goodness' sake. How is it that our evolved intellect hasn’t come up with a way to deal with the potent smell that arises from our own stool?


And that’s when Poo-Pourri comes into the picture.


I found out about Poo-Pourri a while back, via an ad displayed on YouTube. I was skeptical at first, but in the end, decided that the promise of a stench-free bathroom experience was worth the risk of giving it a try. The “Original Citrus” fragrance arrived in the mail. I tried it. Loved it. My family tried it. Loved it. We fell in love with it and have been using it ever since. We keep a dispenser of Poo-Pourri in every bathroom. We even keep an extra bottle that we take with us on trips, so that we don’t part ways with the awesome stench-fighter.

Close-up of Poo-Pourri dispenser of original citrus fragrance.
Poo-Pourri original citrus fragrance. Photo downloaded from Poopourri.com

The beauty of Poo-Pourri lies in its ease of use. You spray it a couple of times in the bowl before doing your business and that’s it. No more breathing through your mouth. No more lighting up matches trying to make the stink go away. No more expecting the worse when a member of your family is finally done using the bathroom. This miracle product doesn’t only do a fine job of placating the evil spirits that try to rise from the bowl, it also frees up some space in the bathroom, since you can get rid of matches, scented candles, and air freshener altogether.


Before Poo-Pourri, the bathroom would smell like a dump truck filled with manure; now it smells like a dump truck filled with fresh orange peels.


I’m really satisfied with the way Poo-Pourri is changing our expectations regarding the bathroom experience.☼

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Alex Guerrero is a content creator who lives in Lawrence, KS. He’s very vocal in his displeasure over pineapple pizza. Chocolate, on the other hand, makes everything better!


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