Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello,
I’m newly diagnosed (2 weeks ago) and still navigating my way through things but overall am content with my diagnosis.
I am super sensory when it comes to smell. I smell everything and either gravitate towards them (been known to sniff people in the past) or feel physically unwell by them or cry if I can’t find the source of a smell. This can make it quite challenging to be out and about at times.
I’ve read lots of tips for people managing noise aversions but I have never come across anything to deal with smells. Does anyone experience the same thing and have any wisdom to pass along?
I’m not sure if I should just start carrying around a small spritz bottle or aroma ball of a scent I like and place it on my wrists or something like that.
Any tips welcome! Thanks
I'm only intermittently smell sensitive, in that I'm reactive to some smells, both positive and negative, and not to others. I've found that having a strong positive smell can take away some of the reaction to negative smells so I have a necklace that has a little vial of essential oils that I like that I can open if I'm overwhelmed by a negative smell. Because it's oil it retains the strong smell so it usually overpowers the other smell. I had a fun time working out which combination worked best for me, it was very trial and error with a bit of gagging along the way, but at least I now know some of the negative smells I'm really reactive to!