How good is your sense of smell?

 Asker’s Pick. 

  I posted this question because since the wildfires of August of this year, almost every day* I have smelled smoke from them. It’s usually in the early hours of the morning or mostly during the entire daytime hours, but I also smell it sometimes in the afternoons, evenings or at night. It’s so vivid that it seems as if fires are continually burning or have recently burned within a dozen miles of the house. Throughout September and into October, I used to ask people around me if they smell the smoke, and after a week of assuring me that they don’t smell it, they quickly became annoyed with me and it evolved from denying it to throwing sideways glances at me.  I’ve stopped asking, even though to this day I still smell it. I’m beginning to believe that as we age, we have just as must super-enhancement of certain sensory perceptions (or supposed perceptions) as we have loss or decreased sharpness of them. Eyesight, hearing, touch, taste, and now even smell.

 

 

*I even smell it right now as I’m typing this.

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I understand all of that.  As I have gotten older I obviously have a keen memory of smells.  When I read the word smoke, I smelled immediately.  My sister called and asked if I wanted to go over to her house and share a pizza.  I smelled pizza before I could say no thanks and get off the phone..  Coffee is another one.  When I wake I smell coffee.......and most of the time I am the one who makes the morning coffee.  It's strange.  I know.  But, better than loosing that sense.

Oh, and the bus thing......I was in menopause and had ovaries that weren't working.  When the hormonal problem was solved, the bus smell went away.  I was in my 30s.  Too young.  This post was edited by Thriftymaid at November 8, 2020 9:22 AM MST

Wow!
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That is amazing!