Nowadays I feel like people have nuked their sense of smell with fragrance generally. I trip to anyone else's house and I get headaches from the amount of automatic fragrance despensers, reed diffusers, essential oil atomisers, scented this that and the other on top of bombing themselves with strongly scented body products and sprays.

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Don't forget covid, and long covid effects.

After having covid three times (and losing my sense of smell from it twice), I'm not sure if my sense of smell ever got back to normal.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 14 hours ago

In my experience, it's fortunately not too common. I disliked potpourri (headaches...) but the essential oil diffusers are so much worse.

I feel like people have scented things for as long as I can remember, but maybe how we're doing it has changed.

I personally like it when my home smells like "nothing," even when I come back to it after being gone a while. Smelling changes in humidity, level of dust, or anything else is pretty great.

[–] NateSwift@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Where are you if you don’t mind me asking? I feel like I’m not running into this on the US west coast