| sethnintendo said:
Yea, the smell of outdoors (forest, etc) is pretty nice. Smell is a double edge sword just like touch. I probably take smell for granted but what brought it to my attention the most was when I quit cigs (off and on a few times). Your smell gets so messed up from cigs. When you quit it is like a whole new world opens up. For one you can smell some one smoking a block away. When you smoke you don't think it stinks that much but when you don't smoke it smells like shit. |
Yeah, mine was messed up for a while too because I was a second hand smoker (my mother smoked a pack a day when I was young). I couldn't smell gas when the burner was 'on' on the stove and my husband freaked about it when he came home and turned it off. I tell him not to trust my sense of smell at all but I think it's gotten a little better since then... my old friend growing up used to say not very nice things about our house, that it smelled like "old bookstore", but years later I realized my friend also had his own smells, like old laundry, and his car and house always wreaked like something... I guess maybe his sense of smell was out of whack too.
The last house I rented used to be lived in by an old lady and that still probably has the same smell. But you get used to it and can't smell it anymore after a while. I left the house for a week, came back and could smell it again though.
