Razors Edge ★ Posted August 17, 2021 Share #1 Posted August 17, 2021 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted August 17, 2021 Share #2 Posted August 17, 2021 I sense that this thread stinks. That's all. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted August 17, 2021 Share #3 Posted August 17, 2021 Not so much. I stammer and have no inflection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 17, 2021 Share #4 Posted August 17, 2021 I have no taste and I smell horrible, comes with the territory. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share #5 Posted August 17, 2021 4 minutes ago, Kzoo said: I sense that this thread stinks. That's all. You Texans Flahutes are all alike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kirby Posted August 17, 2021 Popular Post Share #6 Posted August 17, 2021 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. 4 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share #7 Posted August 17, 2021 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! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted August 17, 2021 Share #8 Posted August 17, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share #9 Posted August 17, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted August 17, 2021 Share #10 Posted August 17, 2021 Not great sense of smell. Ever. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groupw Posted August 17, 2021 Share #11 Posted August 17, 2021 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Randomguy Posted August 17, 2021 Solution Share #12 Posted August 17, 2021 I have excellent taste, except for a few past girlfriends and a past wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted August 17, 2021 Share #13 Posted August 17, 2021 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… 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share #14 Posted August 17, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted August 17, 2021 Share #15 Posted August 17, 2021 I can't hear and I don't see so well, but I can smell nitro and tire smoke at 10 miles. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longjohn ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Share #16 Posted August 18, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted August 18, 2021 Share #17 Posted August 18, 2021 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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