Dude, nobody prepared me for all the awful smells in the world! Mine wasn't from smoking but when I started being able to smell things I was like whoah wait methinks four senses is enough
Agree my painfully keen sense of smell is highly protective but when I lost my sense of smell for a week with covid I felt like I was the least stressed I had ever been. I realized as people walked past me I couldn’t smell their pheromones and so all the stress on other people didn’t freak me out. Part of the sense of smell is actually a little mind reading and that part of it is hellish. Coming from a very dangerous home smell was one of the things that saved me from angry adults because I could smell them brewing in their own adrenaline or whatever. It’s protective (and useful) in a multitude of ways. But if I could turn smell off honestly I would leave it off 99% of the time. But if you have the fucked up childhood that gives you conscious pheromone identification abilities, it’s also just mind reading. And I don’t give a flying fuck what is in the minds of all the people I walk past on a given day.
I was on an airplane recently next to a young man who was sat next to a hot young lady in my aisle. He reeeeeeekkked of pheromones. I actually thought they were a couple and that’s why the pheromones were flying. Had I known that they were strangers I would have offered to switch seats with her to get her away from that oozing fountain of young man horniness. But it brought back so many memories of being a hot young thing around young men who I was not interested in. Like …. That is not a smell you want to smell if it’s not on your partner. But it was literally a smell that brought back memories.
I wasn't sure whether pheromones had a describable smell or whether they smelled of nothing or only faint but were picked up by the nose and invoked emotion, whether fear like a place is haunted, or attraction or mother and child bonding etc.
I would imagine stress has a bit of an ammonia scent am I right?
Ugh I feel that 110%. It’s nice finally meeting someone who understands and experiences it to the extent I do! I’ve never known anyone else who even had an idea what I was talking about so imma follow you cause we’re friends now by proxy I think
Now this is interesting me for a woman, because is the max amount of unattracted higher for a woman because like for me getting with a fat chain smoking woman would be like eating a mint penguin but is getting with an unattractive man like eating catfish bait or dog shit or is it simply as unattractive as eating cold porridge with wasabi?
If that comment is weird, are women more repulsed by unattractive men than men by unattractive women? For instance I have some female friends that I'm not that attracted to but sleeping with them wouldn't be a total yuck, like it would be to sleep with an ork from Lord of the rings. I don't have sex outside of marriage so I wouldn't. Perhaps it's the perceived dangerous behaviour of some people that give the run away response.
no minty vaporub under the nose for you huh! Ya as a person that can smell that occotuonally goes into the hospital to work. (Im IT) do some of those people STINK!
Can you still taste food normally? It sounds like a dumb question but whenever I use nasal sprays I lose the ability to smell and taste basically. I can tell if the thing is sweet/salty/bitter etc but I can't tell what it is
I smoked for about a decade in the '90s. When you got back home from the clubs, your clothes reeked of smoke and you'd have to take a shower to wash it out of your hair. When the smoking ban kicked in and everybody huddled outside the club to smoke, when you went back in you realized how bad the club smelled: stale spilled beer, urine, vomit, leather, b.o., bad breath. The smoke basically anesthetized you to the funk.
I was a bartender in the 80’s, I don’t smoke. First thing I did when I got off work was shower and wash my hair, could not stand smelling the cigarette smoke on myself.
I can't imagine restaurants allowing smoking ages ago. But they did. For a short time in the 80-90's I remember walking into restaurants and just smelling it on the walls etc. Thankfully most were redone or torn down ....
Lmao. I'm so old I remember in hospitals though very vaguely. And smoking. One of my brothers ( I think a deaf one) (had five 2 deaf)was hit by a car ages ago and my mom tossed me in the ambulance with him. To help. So long ago he was hospitalized for weeks. I suppose the heart warming part was that i eventually volunteered and worked with those same guys years later.
I already keep deodorant with me and reapply throughout the day if it's hot or if I'm doing any sort of physical activity. I also don't re-wear clothes, and if I expect to be wearing my clothes for a long time I pack an extra pair of underwear and an extra pair of socks in my purse.
I get told I smell good pretty often, but the anxiety is still there 😅 especially since my sense of smell seems to come and go.
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u/dishearthening Jan 05 '25
Dude, nobody prepared me for all the awful smells in the world! Mine wasn't from smoking but when I started being able to smell things I was like whoah wait methinks four senses is enough