Lately, my sense of smell has been fooling me. I’ve been haunted by a scent that’s not actually there. It’s kind of funky, but not awful, kind of like what I imagine a cold sweat would be.
This smell that doesn’t actually exist first appeared about a year and a half ago during a very stressful time in my life. At first, I thought it was me, but sometimes I would smell it right after I’d had a shower. I asked the people around me if they smelled what I was smelling, and no one did. Ultimately, I realized that was I was experiencing phantosmia or olfactory hallucinations.
