• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    5 hours ago

    Just a guess based on “covid” and “candles”, a ton of people negatively reviewed candles for not smelling good/right/at all, not realizing they had lost their sense of smell from covid at the time.

    I know my spouse had the realization our cold was covid because we couldn’t smell the candles we had bought (and smelled) the week before.

    • tpyo@lemmy.world
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      19 minutes ago

      I had been a bit sick and I had the realization when I went to sniff some weed and I couldn’t smell it. I’d been able to smell earlier in the day and it was a weird realization. I went around and sniffed everything I could hoping to get a whiff

      It was extremely bizarre. I’ve had muted sense of smell and taste because of a sickness but never an absence of the sense