Where and when
The place, and the date you were actually there — not the date you filed. Old reports are shown as old.
Record what happened
One report is a record. Four is a pattern.
Reporting opens with the registries. Here's what a report will capture, and why it's built the way it is.
Lead with what you couldn't do
The main thing a report about a place records is the access outcome — whether you could actually use it. Whether you also had a physical reaction is a separate, optional field.
That ordering is deliberate. "I couldn't use the restaurant" is a statement about your own experience, which you are entitled to make. "They made me sick" is a claim about medical causation that you usually can't prove and shouldn't have to defend.
| Outcome | What it records |
|---|---|
| Went in, stayed | No barrier — as valuable as any complaint |
| Went in, left early | Barrier encountered |
| Went in, reacted | Barrier plus a health effect |
| Couldn't go in | Turned back at the door |
| Didn't attempt | Knew it was scented, so didn't try. For many people it's the most common answer. |
"Went in and was fine" matters just as much. Most review systems only know how to collect complaints, which means they slowly turn into lists of grievances. A record of where you could go is the more useful half.
What a report asks for
Access outcome
One of the five above. That's the whole minimum — you can file a useful report in about fifteen seconds.
Where in the building
Entrance, restroom, dining area, treatment room, or through the ventilation. Zone detail is what makes a report actionable for the business.
A photograph
The diffuser on the wall, the dispenser in the restroom. Evidence, and far more persuasive than description.
Reaction
If you want to record it. Not required, and not needed to make the report count.
The ingredient list
A photo of the label. The app reads it on-device — and if it differs from the version on file, that's how we catch a reformulation.
Instead of taking it off the wall
There's a well-known habit in this community: react to a bathroom air freshener, unplug it, bin it. Everyone understands the impulse — you've just been made ill by something somebody chose to install, and it feels like the only response available.
It's a bad trade. It's someone else's property, it can put you in a confrontation you didn't ask for, and there's a new one in the socket by Thursday.
Photograph it instead. A report is still there long after you've gone home, it compounds with everyone else's, and unlike a binned diffuser it can reach the person who actually sets the policy — see your rights for the card, the message, and how chain escalation works.
What happens to what you write
- You're pseudonymous. You're describing your health. A real name isn't required, and a stable pseudonym is enough for the record to hold together.
- Your account of your own visit can't be deleted by a business. They can claim the listing and reply publicly. They can't edit you.
- Reports about a product bind to the exact formula. When it's reformulated, your report stays attached to the version you used rather than being averaged into a recipe you didn't use.
- Nothing is scored. Reports appear as counts and dates. We don't compute a verdict about anyone.
- You can export everything you've filed as a dated PDF, whenever you want, for whatever you want.
Reporting opens with the registries
Join the waitlist and you'll be told when it does. If you already keep your own list — plenty of people have kept safe-product spreadsheets for years — that's more valuable than a signup, and we'd rather import it with credit than rebuild it badly.