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Alcohol smells and tastes like turps. Yuck. You're right, there are good things about it.

I also have an extremely weak .. near nonexistent sense of smell. I began to lose it around 15 yrs of age. Doctors performed some allergy tests and found nothing. In the past 15 years (I am now 31) the sense of smell had returned two or three times for a few brief days. I am able to taste. Just not smell very well. I have to ask people if milk is sour and when people complain about the smell of a dead skunk on the road, my nose has no perception of it.

Same here, ed. I sometimes feel slightly intoxicated just from the smell, though it's probably just all in my head.

More than the smell, I can not stand the burning sensation as it goes down my throat and my chest. My father, who is currently obsessed with wines (he's not an alcoholic, though, it's a hobby), seems to enjoy that feeling. I just don't understand why .

I also can't stand the smell of McDonald's food, which is also good, since it is so unhealthy. I remember there was a McDonalds across the parking lot from where I used to work, and whenever I went outside on breaks, all I could smell was McDonald's, which to me smelled like B.O..

<p>You're talking about my favorite restaurant! Burger King does smell better, though.</p>
<p>I agree with you about the burning sensation. They say alcohol is an aquired taste. Why would anyone want to aquire it??? </p>

...How does anyone ever find out that something is an "acquired taste" in the first place anyway....

when some outside reason dictates that you keep doing something. Once the newness is gone sometimes the action isn't quite as bad. And especially if there are other benifits to doing the action it can become an aquired taste.

I hate perfume!! Whenever I'm near someone who has strong perfume on, I feel like they're assaulting my senses. I just want to light a cigarette and blow smoke in their face, what's the difference?
I am also sensitive to bleach and all other household cleaners. Even the "all natural" ones from the health food store bother me. I can't burn scented candles or incense and if I walk into a bathroom that someone sprayed with air "freshener" I have to walk out or try to hold my breath and hurry up.
When I was little, I used to smell everything- pages of books, especially, but mostly everything. My family still laughs about it. Now, I'd rather not smell anything!
I really like Aveda products. They use a fragrance made from essential oils, not chemicals, and it smells nice, not like chemicals...

I am very very sensitive to smells. I hate the smell of perfumes and if I'm somewhere where there are many people and many different perfume smells, I will get a headache. Hardware and lumber stores are a no-no for me. The fresh wood smells send me running. I also can't visit gift shops because of the potpourri smells.

I don't know whether I am over sensitive to smell ~ I don't think I am but there are some things I can smell which my wife can't.

Tomcats ~ I can always smell when a tomcat has been around although my wife often says she can't smell anything.

Euphorbias, Yew trees and Box Hedging ~ these are among my favourite smells (again my wife can't smell them).

When I was about nine I went through a phase of refusing to eat Steak & Kidney pie because it tastes like elephants smell.

(I think there's a touch of synesthesia there too)

Last edited by Asparval on 28 Jan 2005, 3:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Many potpourri shops have a distinct undertone of 'sweaty armpit' to me!

Wow Asparval, where do you shop!!?

Not in those shops ~

Too Cute! Well then, I probably wouldn't either!!

I'm extremely sensitive to chemical smells. Gasoline, paint, perfume, etc. I had to ask my mother in law not to wear purfume when she visits because she dumps the stuff on. It gave me a terrible headache and I worried about my son being exposed to the stuff.

"Natural" smells that aren't good for you I can usually take. I love the smell of woodsmoke and quality pipe tobacco, (the heavily scented drugstore tobaccos like "Captain Black" sometimes give me a headache). But cigarettes I can't take, they provoke a migraine.

Oddly enough I not only tolerate pipe smoke, I'm a pipe smoker myself. I can retreat to our "smoking room", (the computer room with a towel stuffed under the door and the window cracked open), and sit there for an hour or more happily puffing away on a pipe with no ill effects. But just fueling up the car at a gas station makes me slightly nausous.

LOL!

Me too. I'll go in the living room (which has a sliding door to the outside), and say, "UGH! It smells like cat piss in here!" My wife feeds the strays out back. She can't smell them, but I can, even through the closed sliding glass door.

I have a real difficult time eating pork. It always smells like meat that's been left out in the sun for a few weeks. No one else seems to notice...

Hm... I don't like the smell of pork and ham, either. I don't know what meat that's been left out in the sun for weeks smells like (fortunately!) but pork and ham have this disgusting smell to me that I can only describe as "sweet B.O.". Both smell a bit wet, sweet, and foul. They taste about the same . And the *texture* of ham.. ugh, don't even get me started...