I have good smell days, and bad smell days. Being a parosmic with a distorted sense of smell, I can usually tell what kind of day it is going to be by how the taste of my saliva is as soon as I wake up. Just a hint of putrescence? Marvellous! Like I have the worlds worst hangover and an African Elephant with Delhi Belly has had an unfortunate accident in my mouth? Bad Smell day ahead! Proceed with caution. A bad smell day will mean that I have to watch what I eat for the rest of the day, as it is likely to make me feel ill no matter how hard I try to avoid my "trigger" ingredients. Triggers are the things that guarantee I will have a bad reaction to something, even on the loveliest of "Good Smell Days". These include, but are not limited to: Coffee: Put simply, the smell of coffee is the worst thing in the world. On a good smell day it might take on the character of burnt, but still strangely sharp garlic, with just a hint of sewage benea...
My nose has brain damage.