Does asafoetida smell amazing to you? and if yes do you consider yourself someone with an accurate sense of smell (e.g. identify if someone needs dental work in a conversation, smell who someone has been hanging out with, identify spices and herbs used in a meal with high accuracy, identify the perfume someone wears etc)

  • bluegreenzeros@beehaw.org
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    11 months ago

    IMO it’s a lot like garlic in that smells amazing when you’re hungry and about to eat it but kind of disgusting to smell outside of that context.

    I guess I have a maybe above average sense of smell/taste, or perhaps just more honed from cooking and tasting coffee and spirits for their tasting notes and such.

    • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      11 months ago

      Interesting. I find garlic delicious all of the time. Well except maybe when I’m feeling amorous and it’s on my beloved’s breath :p

      I think I understand what you’re saying though. What is your experience of things like scented washing chemicals (deodorant/shampoo/soap/detergent) etc. Can you tolerate them? Or do you find them overwhelming?

      what about vegetable decay, like compost. Aversive? or neutral?