What smells you sense much stronger than other people or less than other people? What are some smells you really can’t stand?

  • nomad
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    6 months ago

    I react to anything meant to cover smells. Like parfume, room spray, incense… I loathe fabric softener for some reason.

  • Canaconda@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Different body odors. I do combat sports so I can smell the difference between fresh sweat and people who haven’t showered or washed their clothes. Chronically unwashed hands have a distinct smell.

    • RandomUser@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The smell of people in general. Not sweat as such, just that ‘human’ aroma. - hate it. Public transport is awful. Funnily enough, I can’t differentiate between people, they all smell the same.

  • Staden_ スタデン@pawb.social
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    6 months ago

    unrelated, but sometimes my brain gets confused about smells, like when I was going to eat my lunch today, and my first reaction to the smell was like something in the food was rotten, but a second later I recognized it was just the smell of the rosé sauce (which I enjoy a lot).

  • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    It’s usually more the time than the smells themselves. Some of my coworkers will start heating their food at lunchtime, and i’ll have to go walk the production floor for a half-hour or so until it kinda dies down again. It’s not a bad food smell, but I eat later and it makes me cranky.

  • BeBopALouie@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Speaking of smells is there anyone else out there that can turn their sense of smell on or off? The best I can explain it is I have a flap that I close and poof no sense of smell. My wife says that is strange and not normal.

  • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    6 months ago

    I seem to smell everything sooner than folks around me, or at least I’m usually the first to comment on it.

    Thankfully, there isn’t much that irritates me other than the scent of any kind of decay.

  • HorikBrun@kbin.earth
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    6 months ago

    Smoke and any type of particulates are death to me. Candles, incense, scented laundry soap…

  • CthuluVoIP@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Greek yoghurt. I can smell a container of it from across a room. I don’t hate it, but I can’t sleep in a room with a cup that hasn’t been rinsed out after being eaten.

  • Lexam@lemmy.worldM
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    6 months ago

    I am super sensitive to smells and will throw up if exposed to the wrong ones. Formaldehyde will make me throw up immediately.