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A friend's life is being ruled by something resembling ORS, a psychological condition in which you believe you smell like a trash can, move to another city and hide from society. She insists that it's an odor issue, and when everyone tells her she's OK, she writes it off as white lies to make her feel better. [more inside]
posted by steinsaltz on Mar 4, 2013 - 6 answers

Can you turn your sense of smell on and off at will? [more inside]
posted by Jess the Mess on Oct 6, 2012 - 33 answers

Which chains have trademark smells? [more inside]
posted by mikesch on Sep 14, 2012 - 56 answers

How and why do we become accustomed to smells? What makes some odours personally super-pungent one day and unnoticed 'background noise' later on, despite the smell remaining objectively unchanged? [more inside]
posted by peacay on May 19, 2012 - 7 answers

Could I be a professional smell tester with my dog like nose? [more inside]
posted by WhereAmI on Jul 5, 2009 - 10 answers

Olfactory Filter: My sense of smell is severely diminished, when it exists at all. I have known this for years but now I want to taste wines so I am wondering if there is any way to repair my sense of smell or is it lost forever? [more inside]
posted by DetonatedManiac on Jun 20, 2008 - 8 answers

What's the smallest thing that can be smelled by a human? [more inside]
posted by Eiwalker on Sep 16, 2006 - 21 answers

Puppy smell. What is it? Where does it come from? Why can I not get enough of it? [more inside]
posted by LeeJay on Jun 3, 2006 - 20 answers

Why do some people find the smell of gasoline pleasant?
posted by jeremias on Apr 29, 2006 - 32 answers