I Love The Smell Of Stinky Poo (Glade)

Member Name: kenjohn

Product:	Glade
Date:	22/09/02 (576 review reads)
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Advantages: Disguises nasty aromas

Disadvantages: Not as nice a smell as the real thing (fresh air)

~ ~ OK. I don’t REALLY like the smell of stinky poo!! I’d have to be a lot madder cabbie than I actually am for that to be the case.
And like it or not, most folks poo IS stinky, even if some people would have you believe that their excreta smells of honeyed rose petals.

~ ~ We have a separate toilet here in the mad cabbie household. By that I mean that the loo isn’t in the same room as the bath and shower. In fact, we have two loos, with an additional one downstairs. But they are both small in size, (the rooms, I mean) and so are prone to get a bit smelly when someone has been in there dropping their guts.
The time-honoured method of curing this problem is simple enough. Open a window, and let the fresh air (well, relatively fresh air!) dispel the nasty odours into the atmosphere. (Hopefully when no SAS types are in the vicinity, lest they think they have stumbled on one of Saddam’s poison gas factories)
But this in itself can cause yet another wee problem. If you open the window after dark, then the house very quickly becomes overrun with nasty wee creepy crawlies of the moth/daddy longlegs/bluebottle variety, attracted by the light in the room. Now I always turn off the light behind me (honest!) but others are not always so meticulous. And nobody likes horrible wee beasties fluttering and crawling all over the place when they are trying to contemplate the mysteries of life while perched “on the throne”.

~ ~ But trust the wee lass (my eleven-year-old daughter) to come up with a solution. I arrived home during the week to discover a new addition to the décor of the “smallest room”, a ‘Glade Duet’ air freshener, which she had picked up (as she is prone to do!) on a trip to the local supermarket.
And a truly ingenious little gadget it is too!
It’s called the ‘Duet’ because it has two functions. Well, one function really, (to disguise the stink) but tw
o differing methods of achieving that highly commendable goal.
There’s a tiny (10ml) aerosol spray, which is surrounded on both sides by a clear plastic container of gel. This slots into a plastic dispenser, with a spray nozzle on the top.
The idea is simplicity itself. Once the tags are removed, the gel will slowly release its perfume into the surrounding air for about a month, so the room is always fairly fresh smelling. And if someone then does a particularly nasty smelling ‘wee jobby’, then you can supplement this aroma by giving a quick push on the button on the top of the dispenser, which releases a more intense blast of perfume into the immediate surroundings. They state that the spray dispenser is good for about 90 shots, so even using it three times a day it should last you for about a month or so.

~ ~ There are some fairly dire warnings on the box, that it’s my duty to make you aware of.
You’re advised not to lay the open sachet (before you place it in the plastic container, obviously) on any plastic or wooden surface. Also, to avoid contact with the eyes or skin, and not to put it anywhere near any source of intense heat (50C plus) or naked flame. So it’s corrosive and inflammable.
So exercise a wee bit of care when you’re re-loading your dispenser, and make sure you dispose of the used freshener correctly.

~ ~ Glade Duet is made by Johnson’s, based in Camberley in Surrey.
The unit itself costs €3.67 here in Tesco, (Irl) and subsequent refills will then set you back €2.52. There seems to be a range of different scents. One is called ‘Waterfall’, another ‘Citrus’, and the one we use is ‘Jasmine Bouquet’.
The ‘Jasmine Bouquet’ is pleasant enough, rather akin to a blast of strong perfume. Obviously, it’s NOT as pleasant as fresh air, but at the same time it’s not totally overpowering, as some other
air fresheners can tend to be. And it is DEFINITELY preferable to the alternative!!

Recommended by the mad cabbie.

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A Euro varies between 60p and 64p Sterling.

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COPYRIGHT. Ken J. September, 2002.

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