Sense of Taste and Smell?

[Razors Edge ★]

How do you rate yours? 

I will say that, when compared to my wife, my senses of taste and smell are definitely not great.  We'll be eating something, and she'll ask me if I taste the cherry/sour/garlic/whatever, and I'm always like "maybe?"  Or the classic wine sniff - no way I smell much more than "it smells fruity" or whatever.

How about you?

How does you sense of taste and smell compare to those around you?

[Kzoo]

I sense that this thread stinks.

 

That's all.

 

[MoseySusan]

Not so much. I stammer and have no inflection.

[jsharr ★]

I have no taste and I smell horrible, comes with the territory.

[Razors Edge ★]

4 minutes ago, Kzoo said:

I sense that this thread stinks.

 

That's all.

 

You Texans Flahutes are all alike

[Kirby]

My sense of smell is terrible.  My Dad's was too.  He said it was an evolutionary adaption from commuting by NYC subway for decades.

[Razors Edge ★]

1 minute ago, Kirby said:

My sense of smell is terrible.  My Dad's was too.  He said it was an evolutionary adaption from commuting by NYC subway for decades.

So you and I are highly evolved!

[MoseySusan]

26 minutes ago, Razors Edge said:

So you and I are highly evolved!

23 and Me sends me reports about character traits that have a DNA origin. One of them is preference for salty or sweet. I wouldn’t be surprised if level of sense of smell is an evolutionary adaptation. 

[Razors Edge ★]

3 minutes ago, MoseySusan said:

23 and Me sends me reports about character traits that have a DNA origin. One of them is preference for salty or sweet. I wouldn’t be surprised if level of sense of smell is an evolutionary adaptation. 

My wife is a salt fiend. I'm more a sweet lover.

[shootingstar]

Not great sense of smell. Ever.  

[groupw]

My sense of taste is pretty good, but not a golden palette. 
My sense of smell was ok, but it has been diminished with Covid. Seems to be coming back but very slowly 

[Randomguy]

I have excellent taste, except for a few past girlfriends and a past wife.

[ChrisL]

Pretty heightened sense of smell and my taste is pretty good.  I can usually sniff out a local fire pretty quickly and unlike my wife can smell rain.  The air just smells differently when it’s raining or about to.  I can also sniff out alcohol and pot on people pretty quickly. 

The other evening I kept smelling dog crap in the house. My wife couldn’t smell it. I checked the house & dog, nothing. I then checked our shoes in the laundry room and my wife stepped in dog crap & had it in the treads of her shoe…

[Razors Edge ★]

1 minute ago, ChrisL said:

can smell rain.  The air just smells differently when it’s raining or about to.

I'll pick up the ozone smell, but that's mostly on warmer summer rain days.

[maddmaxx ★]

I can't hear and I don't see so well, but I can smell nitro and tire smoke at 10 miles.

[Longjohn ★]

I used to be able to smell if someone was running bean oil in their two strokes from a half mile away. I loved that smell. Thimbledrone had that same smell.

[MickinMD ★]

I haven't noticed any loss of taste or smell.  I'll been taking care of my vacationing brother's family's pets this week and I could smell Rango the foot-long Bearded Dragon's poop - a little bigger than a quarter in size and about 1/4" high - a yard away from the screened-top terrarium.  My SiL said I don't have to clean it up, but I've been doing it anyway to spare my nose.  It's as if he craps right on the flat-stone section to make sure I'll see it - it does make the job easier and it's also where I've been depositing his daily feed of lettuce so I wash the stone, too.

As far as tasting the flavors assigned to various wines, teas, etc. I always detect the non-sweet stuff: nutty, bark, etc. but the "hints of..." berries, flowers, fruit, etc. have usually just come across to me as a little bit of sweetness, though peach and cherry are unique enough to stand out to me.