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I have a very powerful sense of smell.
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I was telling an ex about smelling my coworker’s fear all day. He had a crush on me (it was a call center, so not an especially professional environment), and we had to share my cubicle for training, and he was just pouring out anxiety sweat. My ex had no idea what the fuck I was talking about and I’ve never met someone else who can identify the emotions that a person has by their sweat.
Saying someone “can smell fear” is a normal thing that comes up a lot in media, so I assumed it was also normal to notice. Apparently not. I’ll take all of the help my autistic ass can get in iding others’ emotions though
Oh hey, I remember Mythbusters did a thing on that years ago, got a professional sniffer in who was almost consistently able to detect samples of fear sweat out of a lineup of sweat samples. So yeah, fear smell is absolutely a thing if you know what to sniff for.
You got me down a rabbit hole, but it’s now been officially supported that people subconsciously react to smells, so I’m really curious if more people can train themselves to smell it.
It smells kind of sour in my experience and i believe I’ve been able to smell it in my childhood pet bird as well as my wife
Yeah, it smells like battery acid to me. It’s fucking wild if birds use the same chemical signals as we do
Wow I can’t believe other people smell the battery acid too. Maybe im not hallucinating
This is kinda interesting to me. I can pretty easily notice it with myself (If I’m scared for a presentation or calling with somebody). But I don’t think I’ve every been able to identify it in somebody else
Yeah, I probably only noticed it in others because my sister and I shared clothing growing up and she is also an anxiety-ridden mess
I’m thinking maybe I was that anxiety-ridden mess in the past, and that’s why I couldn’t smell it on anybody else. My own smell was too noticeable, whoops.
I mean, me too! At least apparently nobody else can smell it
Luckily! Although I’m never certain people notice it, but just don’t say anything…
Now I had the opposite thought because I thought it was normal for people and I was the only one who couldn’t lol
legit and respect, gotta take all the advantages you can get.
Worst.
X-Men mutation.
Ever.
Worse than the girl who kills people by a touch?
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Suddenly makes a game of “tag” way more high-stakes—and FUN!
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Don’t have to feel guilty about boiling your lobsters alive.
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Ticks and mosquitoes? Never an issue.
I’ll admit it makes petting zoos a tragic affair, but what the hell good is “smelling” ants?
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Can I smell ants? I feel like I would have noticed if I could…
And you try don’t get too close and inhale it
I can smell them when they’re dead. Otherwise, not usually?
Same
You have a powerful sense of smell, I sense a powerful smell, we are not the same.
You smelt it you dealt it
What I dealt, you must also have smelt
:(
I can only smell those flying ants that come out during the rains. That sweet sticky smell is another type of horror.
What the hell? You all need Jesus.
i only found out they had a smell a couple years ago, and i’m in my 30s. not because i can’t smell them though, but just because i hadn’t noticed it before.
Yeah… I can barely smell at all. Even normally strong smells like that of the urine of an unfixed male cat aren’t particularly impactful to me. I wouldn’t have even considered the potentiality that ants have a distinctive smell in spite of being aware that they use pheromone trails for navigation.
They don’t smell AWFUL per say, they just have a very particular smell.
I’ve always been able to smell them. I can’t believe there are people out there who can’t. My world has been rocked.
Non-ant-smeller here. Can you smell them before you see them? Or is the smell usually after you see them?
For me it’s usually only after they’ve died. They have this bitter, extremely unpleasant acidic smell to them.
The weird minty smell?
Definitely. Formic acid.
You got me. I snorted ants and now they are tickling my brain
OK Ozzy
U can taste the ants
tHe SucCuLeNt FlAvOr
Oh my God. I’ve always thought ants stunk when I crush them, but my mom has always thought I was crazy. Glad to know I’m not.
How about you don’t murder them?
No I’m ok, they need to stay out of my house.
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