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When Roses Smell Like Rotting Fish, That's Parosmia



Parosmia distorts your taste and smell. A cup of coffee, for instance, might smell or taste like garbage. Farknot Architect/Shutterstock
It became obvious to Atlantan Mark Byrd last February that he, his wife and young daughter had come down with COVID-19. All three got sick and lost their sense of smell one of the hallmark symptoms of the coronavirus.
Byrd had a nasty bout with the virus, but nothing bad enough to send him to the hospital. His wife required a monoclonal antibody infusion because she is immunocompromised, but eventually, all three recovered. His wife and daughter regained their sense of smell, but he didn t. At the time, I just didn t think too much about it, he says, assuming he would sooner or later. ....

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Love notes and scented cards: a perfumer's pandemic journey


Jahnvi Lakhota Nandan at her perfumer’s table at Olaulim Backyards
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Shameena Fernandes
Perfumer Jahnvi Lakhota Nandan’s pandemic journey shows us how the last months have reminded many of the power of smell and helped them reconnect with it
What is your first memory of smell? Mine is of smelling my sister’s head the day she was born, August 16, 1979. I really liked that smell of a clean human scalp, talc, and also surprise. Forty years later, in late 2019, when people started losing their sense of smell at the start of the pandemic, in a collective anosmia, the question became even more pertinent. ....

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