It can happen after a bad cold or sinus infection, head injury, seizures and certain drugs. “It’s not a smell I’ve ever smelled in the real world, for sure.”Ĭlark is suffering from parosmia, a distortion of smell that occurs when receptor cells in the nose don’t detect and translate odors to the brain properly. “Or what I think that might smell like,” she added. It smells like cheap tequila and ham with notes of old lady perfume,” Clark said. “The absolute worst is hand sanitizer, because it’s everywhere. Red meat smelled “hideous, rotten,” and anything with rubbing alcohol smelled “revolting.”
Suddenly lots of things smelled odd, or distorted. Covid-19 causes an unusual type of smell loss.
