I really miss my great sense of smell

[thefourgp]

My family used to joke I was like a bloodhound. I always smelled things before others. I totally lost my taste and smell when I got covid six months ago. It’s returned but it’s not half as good/sensitive. There’s some things I hate the smell of (cat food and hot milk) and I don’t trust it to be accurate any more. I hardly ever wear perfume because it seems pretty pointless now. I can’t smell the perfume for very long. It’s not the end of the world and others have worse after effects but I miss it. Anyone else the same?

Well yes mine is sort of back and slowly getting more sensitive again

I loved it being rubbish, bad smells no longer bothered me, DH smelt the litter tray first for a change.

Toothpaste now tastes utterly vile

Funny you mention the litter tray. I could always smell it as soon as they’d gone (even when I was upstairs in another room) and I never smell it any more. I just have to regularly check and it makes me paranoid about the smell of my house.

Yeah I'm a bit paranoid but we never have visitors.

Mine is definitely very slowly improving.

Mine is little this still and my taste still isn’t brilliant. I had covid in October.

I really understand, OP. Mine has been gone for 18 months and I really, really miss it. I miss
My lovely roses and sweet peas in summer
Freshly baked bread
My bubbly baths and daily perfume squirt
Clean, line dried washing
The mowed lawn

But it's not just missing the things I love, it's the absence of all smells (well maybe not all!) I nearly poisoned my DH with 'off' chicken, can't tell if something is burning and so on. And I just miss smelling everyday stuff like a clean house, the trees after rain or a casserole in the oven.
Any advice on getting it back?