and when we smell something we are really smelling (that thing)+(boogers)
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It's the smell of mucous membranes.
So, the same smell as the inside of your nose and sinuses.
Which is, essentially, the smell of slightly salty water with traces of protein. Which barely smells at all
Which is why peeps with bad breath and bo (often one and the same) don't know. Nor do their fam.
Oh, I definitely knew when I had bad breath. For many years I would regularly get tonsil stones, and those things stink!
For whatever reason, thankfully I stopped getting those around 10 years ago. GOOD!!!
They've gone nose-blind and smell-deaf.
It’s like your house’s smell, your used to it but everyone else notices it
Hmm, is that why my ex flatmate didn't notice that their room and clothes smelt gross?
My favorite is when you smell something so horrible that it seems to get stuck in your nose and you smell it for hours even after leaving the smelly place. 🤢
sometimes it your upper lip
and sometimes itn't
This is why you can taste/smell saline when it’s injected. Trace amounts of dissolved things (which taste like plastic and metal) in the saline are able to pass through the alveoli in the lungs and evaporate into your breath.
Oddly, I think it’s a similar thing with my ADHD meds because about an hour or two after taking them my breath smells/tastes weird.