Have you ever lost your sense of smell with a cold?

[Nellodee]

Just that really.

When I lost my sense of smell and taste with covid it was really strange. I could breather perfectly well, but even with my face shoved in something stinky, I wouldn't have had a clue.

When people say they have lost their sense of smell with a cold, do they mean it just disappeared, like with covid, or do they mean they were so bunged up they couldn't smell anything? It must have been pretty rare before, surely?

I have a cold now and my nose is blocked. Yes I usually loose some sense of taste and smell but it's nothing like the same as covid. With covid I had weird phantom tastes and then nothing. On a scale of 1 to 10 a cold is a 4 and covid a 10

Yes, but when I have lost both smell and taste with colds, it’s because my nose was completely blocked. Like you OP, with Covid I could breathe fine but couldn’t smell or taste anything and it’s taken weeks to come back, whereas when I lost it due to a cold, it all came back once I could breathe again.

Not in the same way. With Covid, it was honestly like my brain had forgotten how to 'do' smells. When it started coming back, I'd have to smell the thing for a while before my brain figured it out and started interpreting again.