Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My friend in college had a smell that is similar to what you’re describing. Found out eventually that she a) ate a ton of vegetables and b) was bulimic. After she sought treatment, I didn’t notice the odor anymore.
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Interesting about the bulimia. When I was in junior high, I had an eating disorder (didn't eat.) My mom would give me cash to buy school lunch but I would just pocket the money and wouldn't eat, and she could always tell when I didn't because she said my breath smelled "fruity" if I hadn't eaten.
Because your breath turns sweet when you have low blood sugar. Tell tale sign from T1 diabetics. My sister had a seizure from low blood sugar once and the EMT knew immediately what it was because her breath smelled fruity and sweet.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My friend in college had a smell that is similar to what you’re describing. Found out eventually that she a) ate a ton of vegetables and b) was bulimic. After she sought treatment, I didn’t notice the odor anymore.
New poster here.
Interesting about the bulimia. When I was in junior high, I had an eating disorder (didn't eat.) My mom would give me cash to buy school lunch but I would just pocket the money and wouldn't eat, and she could always tell when I didn't because she said my breath smelled "fruity" if I hadn't eaten.
Anonymous wrote:My friend in college had a smell that is similar to what you’re describing. Found out eventually that she a) ate a ton of vegetables and b) was bulimic. After she sought treatment, I didn’t notice the odor anymore.
Anonymous wrote:I recall when I was BF'ing, I would take supplements (fenugreek perhaps?), to increase milk supply. An effect of the supplements (a fairly widespread one) was personally smelling like maple syrup.* It wasn't unpleasant but it was definitely noticeable. If this herb can have such an impact, I am sure that other herbs or diets can also have a substantial olfactory effect. So perhaps research diets, OP!
*Also, weirdly, from time to time I feel like I smell like maple syrup again... perhaps fenugreek or some like plant was in a recent restaurant meal or something, who knows?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I am a daily hiker and super smeller - I can smell each person as they pass by me and smell cologne on the parent next to me as we sit outside at a youth sports event.
Career in public service and I think I know the grapefruit odor - there’s also a distinctive earthy, vaguely milky odor I detect on Asians, typically Chinese men.
Figured out quickly that a colleague is an alcoholic - perpetual rank odor emanating from pores and hair - worse in morning.
Then there’s the cigarette smokers. Not standard freshly lit cigarette smell but a deep, carbony stale smell.
First cold snap of the season means the elderly are getting their winter coats out of moth ball storage and I’m gagging. Makes no sense but this is the odor that is my undoing.
I’m happy that my sense of smell sucks after reading this.