Nasal Accuity - C or D?

My mother and sister are always complaining about smells ("Oh! That soap smells so strong! I can't even walk past that closet because that soap is so potent!) I've always said that hyper-smellin' folk are less evolved than us go-wit'-da'flow, don't-smell-things regular joes. I mean, you can't live in a contemporary city with fully functioning olfactory bidness w/o goin' crazy.

women almost always have a more sensitive sense of smell, so it makes sense that it's your sis and mom. Mine seems to wander in and out of being rather ambivilant to easily offended. Don't ask my why though. (Alergies?)

I also have allergies that sometimes get in the way, but there are a few smells -- hard-boiled egg, canned tuna, for example -- to which I respond extremely strongly and hate even being in the room with them.

I cannot bear fishy smells, especially the least bit off. But I do often find human body smells intruiging if it's nto a "I havent showered-type " smell - if that makes any sense

yeah, I used to hate that fish smell so much that I refused to eat fish when I was a kid--even when I had a subscription to infisherman... The funny thing is that fish you catch hardly have that smell/taste, as long as you eat them when they're fresh.

Yeah, I agree with hard boiled edd and tuna as for smells I HATE.

strange side note, there are some foods I HATE the smell of cold but don't mind/enjoy them when they're hot. These include refried beans and maranara sauce.

I actually find the smell of armpit and the smell of mexican food pretty simlar, which is odd. The egg smell you hate is probably the sulphur.
SO true my friend, about the fish. Fish must be fresh or it is shit upon the plate and palate. That's why I like sushi - it's always very fresh. I have bough tfish from the market that I honestly found to be fit for the trash bin despite the date on it.

Dud!

I am very sensitive to odors, especially to rotting things and ciggie smoke. I literally feel ill whenever I get the faintest whiff of ciggie smoke: I get a choking, retching sensation. I want to vomit on smokers. The rotting smells are merely annoying and unpleasant, whereas cigarette smoke is downright toxic. Oddly enough, I've rarely come across rotting smells that actually make me want to hurl.

Pot smoke is only slightly unpleasant. It's called skunk weed for good reason, but it's not as offensive as cigarette tobacco smoke. Pipe and apple tobacco (taken through a hookah water pipe) smoke is sweet and pleasant.

CK1 is the next most unpleasant thing to smell, after ciggie smokers and decomposing flesh/feces. The concept of an androgynous fragrance is cool; it's too bad about the actual scent. It wards me off the way garlic supposedly wards off vampires.

"CK1 - not quite bad as a rotting ass."

I hate when mouths smell of garlic. It's so personal. I dont want to be in someone's mouth. Incidentally, Wellbutrin smells afwul!

RIght GUard is a smell associated with the hiding of bad smell so it too smells bad.

My flatmate used to complain when I would sully the bathroom with odor after a defecation - but not for the smell of the stool: for the smell of the air freshner I would liberally spray!

mr jones, your flatmate was otm. air freshener + shit smell reeks 5684357549 times worse and sickly and sick-making and hangs around way longer than shit smell on its own.

i wish people wouldn't wear perfume too. the other day i was waiting at traffic lights and was like 6 feet away from this woman standing on the kerb and her perfume was so strong i damnnear fell over, it was foul. perfume is invasive and rarely even a good smell, and she prob spent £££ on it. people be gullible.

I worked at a nursery for years, and this blue-hair lady used to come in several times a season and buy every single jasmine plant in the greenhouse. She wore so much perfume it could choke an ox, and she was wiping us out of our stock of this fabulous natural-scented thing. How could she even smell them? Obviously she was killing them at home. The last time she came in I saw her approaching and quickly hid a couple of the jasmines. Then a landscaper girl came in and bought them for herself. I was glad I kept them away from that scent-hog lady.

As I'm quitting smoking, I'm finding the scent WAY offensive... Which is odd cause I can really dig campfire/grill/other smoke smells.

To me armpits smell way more of onions than mexican food.

One of my coworkers throws up if she smells any food in her work area. She's kind of pushy and imperious, so everyone actually enjoys exploiting this weakness.

Today I smelled my coworkers breath and it were a waft of unkempt vapour. Gad!

I actually wanted to start a thread about whether anyone else 'favors' a nostril over the other... if I'm really trying to identify a scent, I rely on my more accute right nostril, my left doesn't work as good. Sort of like looking through a telescope with one eye over the other. Anybody else?