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My wife likes to use air fresheners and I hate it. If there is an unpleasant smell she sprays an air freshener to make it smell better. But, for me, it never makes it smell better. It still smells the same except that now there are two smells. I still smell the original smell and the air freshener as two independent, distinct smells. Also, the air freshener never smells good to me. It smells like an industrial chemical as opposed to any flower advertised on it's label. She has a lavender air freshener that smells like flatulence to me. I eventually had to ask if she had passed gas before realizing it was the air freshener!
Do any of you have an olfactory senses like this??
I'm hypersensitive to ethanol used in air fresheners,aftershaves,EAU de parfums,dislike some perfumes ,aftershaves ,love pine,cedar,tea tree oil ,love! eucalyptus oil,rose oil,violet oil,cinnamon,garlic,mint,chilli, I buy Yankee candles, when the moon is a beautiful shade of cobalt blue ,but rarely light them.My wife likes to use air fresheners and I hate it. If there is an unpleasant smell she sprays an air freshener to make it smell better. But, for me, it never makes it smell better. It still smells the same except that now there are two smells. I still smell the original smell and the air freshener as two independent, distinct smells. Also, the air freshener never smells good to me. It smells like an industrial chemical as opposed to any flower advertised on it's label. She has a lavender air freshener that smells like flatulence to me. I eventually had to ask if she had passed gas before realizing it was the air freshener!
Do any of you have an olfactory senses like this??
After learning that the sprays affected me my wife stopped using them. She is very accommodating that way.I cannot imagine how I’d stay in the same house with someone who insists on using artificial-Air-Fresheners. More like Air Foulers in my opinion.
Last time I was at a house with those things plugged in to the outlets, I went around unplugging them & dropped them into the outside garbage bin.
I can discern separate smells, scents, to a point.
There are some people I can’t tolerate just because of their normal body scent. Not stinky or unwashed, but just the way they smell. For example, I was in a legal battle with a person a long time ago. Court ordered mediation. When they showed up & entered the little room I could smell their fear.
They were a bully and yet they were scared.
The mediator noticed that the person’s hands were sweaty, but I was grossed out by an off, odd odour.
That is so funny! My son has thing for Axe and he smokes weed. Sometimes I imagine he is Pepe Le Pew covering up his skunkiness with nasty cologne.Yep! I took a liking to those wax warmer things, but they're more like "put a pleasant scent in the air" and not "let's try to cover something up with a toxic gas release".
Some of those spray air fresheners will flat out drive me from the room. Spray can Lysol especially, too. I can't stand the stuff. It smells like burning.
Anyone ever notice that Axe body spray smells exactly like toilet bowl cleaner? I came across a guy wearing too much of that stuff one time - I could smell it from the other side of the street.
After learning that the sprays affected me my wife stopped using them. She is very accommodating that way.
Actually, I now realize that I titled this post and asked the question incorrectly. I was not looking for means of dealing with or ridding smells. I just wanted to know if others had a distinctive sense of smell. That is; do smells blend together to you or do you continue to smell each smell independently when there are two or more smells at the same time and place?