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Dealing with smells

I'm done with Christmas Cards

Does anyone have any tips for dealing with smells without coming across badly?

I'm starting to get really sensitive to smells such as:

  • Junk food that our daughter and boyfriend tend to cook late at night after we've cleaned and freshened the kitchen (OK I know asking her not to is an option and it seems to be working *for now*).
  • Orange peel - after a few minutes for me this stops smelling of oranges and starts smelling like stale cigarette ash
  • Things like pilchards in salads that people eat at their desks in the office
  • Strong perfumes, hand creams & air fresheners

No word of a lie some of these smells actually give me a headache.

I wish there were a nasal equivalent of noise cancelling ear buds!

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  • in reply to I'm done with Christmas Cards

    I'm convinced I was the first person to use the description of referring to something smelling of 'wet dog'. 

    It was over 30 years ago and a lot of things used to smell that way to me. I remember the people around me at that time thinking it was really funny and me just being bemused saying ' have you not smelled a dog before when it's wet?' No, they said I hadn't noticed.

    It was a smell that haunted my nasal passages for around 10 years, now there are only particular things that smell that way, still makes me wretch though.