No Smell?!

What's that? Cupcakes? Oh how I would love some right now...just from the smell I could...

Hello again. Did you want a cupcake after reading that? Sorry. Well, I'm going to broood over how I can't smell, so don't go complaining.

If you sprayed something in front of me, with no color, picture or words to indicate what it was, I probably wouldn't even know it had an odor. I'd think you just sprayed water in front of me and I'd be annoyed.

How is it I came to not smell? Do I remember what smell is? What odors are in a bathroom? Scents in the fresh spring air? Or maybe a splash of perfume from my mother, grandma, or a friend? No. What's it like not being able to smell? Well, let me ask you this: what's it like not being able to see? To hear? Exactly.

People are used to growing up with the sense of smell, they KNOW what sweet is. Stench, fruits, a new book, fields after a rain storm. Me? I'm basing these senses off of what I taste, what I hear others say. If I grew up where people told me socks smell like candy, I would taste the candy to be sweet, the savory juices that tingle on your tongue as you chew. What about after a storm you say? Well, I haven't figured it out, but I'm guessing fresh. I base that off of how I feel after a shower, because there's not other "fresh" that I'd associate with rain. Something smooth, clean, odorless, maybe a touch of lemon or mint. However that's not realistic and it's only portrayed like that in pictures, in body language on TV or in person if people really go all dramatic like that.

I've never even known about fruits until recently. This past summer, I visited china, and my mother was saying she knew I'd bought an orange because she could smell it. I went to check my bag, thinking maybe the orange popped and juice spilled all over my things. Nope. It was perfectly intact. She then explained the pores in fruit emit scents we could smell.

What does my nose do then? Well, if I can't tell if milk is bad, or if there's a gas leak, or if someone farted or if a bathroom's unclean, what's the point of my nose? Well, I don't know, other than to breathe. I do get sensations that feel "cold" or "cool" and then "stuffy" sensations. If you bring vinegar vapor under my nose my nose tingles. I've learned to "fresh" or "sweet" or something good smells "cool." If it's a bathroom, something gross and an utter disgrace to mankind, it's "stuffy," as a bathroom gets clogged or as sweat is in humid weather.

If you can't see hear, smell, or use one of your senses, you know what I'm talking about. You rely on other senses. It's so different than just saying you rely on those senses and actually needing to. I know smell isn't that important a sense to lose, but I can understand what the blind deaf, or others are going through. Comment to share you story! I'd love to hear about others out there like me :)


I wish there were someone who would make a deal with me. What I wouldn't do to smell lotion, flowers, new cars, or rain.....