Does it bother you

Well apart from walking around with a peg attached to my nose.. I really do try not to think about it, otherwise I;d be more OCD than I am already about cleanliness ..usually if someone stinks from some orifice..I'm out of that area before you can blink.. running-collection-carol-008-327x400.jpg
 
Here's an article that asks "What is the speed of smell"?

"Our sense of smell, or olfaction, is a form of chemoreception, which means our noses transduce chemical signals into neural impulses. Our noses possess nearly four hundred olfactory receptors, and each of these bind with a specific molecular feature. Odorous molecules possess multiple features and so will trigger different receptors to varying degrees. These stimuli are then transduced into electrical signals that the brain can interpret.


And that's the key difference - while sound waves and visible light travel through the air so that our sensory organs can detect and transduce their information, smell is found in the odorous compounds that make up the air around us. So, then, determining the speed of smell is a bit like figuring out how fast air travels...in air. It's not quite as impossible as that might sound, but tracking the progress of odorous compounds is definitely a lot trickier than following the movement of photons and sound waves".
 

Sure, some particles I wouldn't mind going up my nose, but some others I'd grab for the nearest clothespin.

It wouldn't bother me one bit to have a tiny piece of rosebud or bacon.....but others ...ICK !
 
I'm very sensitive to smell, and if someone stinks, I'm outta there, asap. I once took my watch in to get a new battery and the guy behind the jewelry counter let out a silent but deadly, I had to pretend to go to look at some rings. Never went back to that place again.
 
Um working in a store where some aisles make your eyes and nose run together? Well, we all have to die of something and the benefits are good. Gee I wonder why..
 
I've spent a significant part of my career "playing in other people's poop". I've worked in and around raw sewage. No matter whether the waste comes from multi-million dollar homes or a trailer part... it smells the same. No matter whether it flows from the executive restroom or the basement restroom used by the "help"... it smells the same. Whether highly educated or lacking an elementary education... it smells the same. So, one would think nasty odors would not be a bother to me.

One thing I cannot take is second hand smoke. Don't dare light up close to me or I will ask you to put it out. Hate the odor of cigarette smoke. Also cannot stand foul body odor. If you can't shower and use deodorant, don't plan on spending much time chatting. As we age, seems many get careless with personal hygiene. Strong body odor makes my stomach turn.

Hog farmers... dairy farmers... their clothes reek yet they don't detect the odor since they "live" in it. We just came from a home with three cats. When we walked in the front door, the odor was really bad. Our daughter has a cat and you don't smell that one, since she is OCD about keeping the litter box cleaned out, etc. Some ethnicities use cooking ingredients that would make my eyes water. Doesn't bother them since that is what they grew up with as "normal".
 
No, it doesn't bother me because I learned about odors and their mechanics a long time ago.

Then I owned a commercial cleaning business.

Then I worked in several chemical companies.

Then I worked for General Foods and did olfactory testing.

Then I had two boys.

Overall, my honker is tired! :hurt:
 
In my own case, alas, my sense of smell has departed along with much of the taste sense. So, when I open a gallon of Hydrochloric Acid, to bring down our pool Ph levbel, I have learned I must be real careful, those first few hints of smell which warn of acid fumes are not there. Suddenly, I find myself choking, this impediment could even be dangerous, I realize.

Now and then, for a few fleeting moments, smells will return. Mmmm, onions frying in a pan, for example! How I miss those grand kitchen smells! :(

imp
 
Does it bother you?

Almost no smell bothers me. It does seem to be whatever you get used to. I like to get used to everything. Then life is easier because very little upsets you.

The only smell I don't like is a (long time) dead animal. And the smell seems to linger in your nose for hours afterward. Could it be those darn particulates are bigger than average and form a film in your nose? Or is it psychological?
 
imp said:
In my own case, alas, my sense of smell has departed along with much of the taste sense. So, when I open a gallon of Hydrochloric Acid, to bring down our pool Ph levbel, I have learned I must be real careful, those first few hints of smell which warn of acid fumes are not there. Suddenly, I find myself choking, this impediment could even be dangerous, I realize.

Now and then, for a few fleeting moments, smells will return. Mmmm, onions frying in a pan, for example! How I miss those grand kitchen smells! :(

imp
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Imp, why miss the smell of fried onions since you like it so much? My oldest grandson River, age 22, LOVes fried potatoes with onions and only grandma can make them for him. I make it for him when he comes home from college. He eats it plain but I put big dollops of horseradish on my plate. Cook yourself some and enjoy life my friend!
Next Morning note: In rereading this I see you have no sense of smell so my post makes no sense. Sorry.

 
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Interesting, that you have no sense of smell and little of taste. So, if you eat something, is it only a texture thing? Do you have to force yourself to eat?
 
If you own dogs and have had three of them under the table snoozing and emitting odours whilst you are eating dinner you can cope with anything! Picking up the dog poo is an art as well - bag over hand, deep breath, bend and scoop!
Husband is retired paramedic and he said he could cope with anything except smells - he spent a lot of time holding his breath LOL!
 
The Gray wolf is an amazing animal. Here are some facts about how their ability to smell prey.

The wolf’s sense of smell is about 100 times better than a human's. It uses its sense of smell more than anything else to find prey, with the ability to smell prey before it can see it, more than a mile away if the wind is right.


A wolfs nose can smell things that your nose can't. Like your nose, the inside of a wolf’s nose contains moist surfaces that "catch" smells in the air, however the area receptive to smell in a wolf nose is 14 times greater than that of a human.


The wolfs nose has about five times more surface area than yours does, so it can catch more smells from the air than you can. It can even sense the presence of an animal three days after it's gone! The nose itself is not five times larger than a human nose. For all the extra smelling surface to fit inside, it must be wrapped and folded many times.


An experiment was performed at one time with covered trays of food to test the relative senses of smell between wolves and dogs. What required only five minutes for the wolves to determine which tray contained food took domestic dogs over an hour to discover.
 

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