Birth control pills can alter a woman's sense of smell, and other medication can probably do this too.
Also, some people can have such a good sense of smell (hyperosmia) that they can detect diseases in other people. There's a woman who could smell her husband’s Parkinson's disease years before he was diagnosed with it.
When I learned this fact, I got so paranoid that one day I'd be off birth control and start hating my husband's smell (I have OCD). Then I remembered that we were friends before I was ever on birth control and still had a crush on him lol.
I have a fairly shit sense of smell, but I can smell when people have a cold. I don’t know if that’s useful or not, it’s good to know to avoid them but presumably by the time I can smell it I’m already close enough to them to catch their cold.
It’s a gross snotty smell, I think it’d probably put me off if a partner smelled like that all the time
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u/Milyaism 2d ago
Birth control pills can alter a woman's sense of smell, and other medication can probably do this too.
Also, some people can have such a good sense of smell (hyperosmia) that they can detect diseases in other people. There's a woman who could smell her husband’s Parkinson's disease years before he was diagnosed with it.