Published on 12, July, 2020
Anyone else get this? Is it more prevalent in ASD than non-ASD?
I have a particular problem with those plug-in room scent things that have three alternating smells, and some of the oil-based things that are glass jars with wooden diffuser sticks. One of the smells smells very "volatile" to me, a bit like vick / ethanol / acetone (how do you describe an un-natural smell in words???) and it gives me an almost instant headache behind the eyes / nose.
As an aside, I find that discarded orange-peel quickly stops smelling of oranges and within minutes starts to smell like a full & stale cigarette ashtray? Weird!
I pathologically LOATHE the smell of boiling potatoes !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1....... even the word SPUD or MASH brings me to rage..... i would happily execute ALL potato growers and banish that smell forever.