I have a semi-strong sense of smell. For me, tho, there are several specific smells that bother me. And them some that make me feel good.

On the list of bad are a certain men's cologne, patchouli, and cleaning chemicals. On the list of good are beaches and lakes, fresh rain, fresh cut grass, moth balls (weird, I know), lavender oil and mild eucalyptus oil.

Last week, I went to an NA meeting I had never gone to, and one of the men, when I walked in, noticed that I was breathing a little heavy. I was reacting, mostly, to the smell of the place. It wasn't necessarily bad, but it was a smell I was trying to identify, and I couldn't place it right away. The meeting is in a community hall of a church and my best description was it smelled "like a church"... this man asked what a church "smelled like", and I couldn't really describe it... other than musty, with a tinge of little old lady perfume. It was weird. The smell made me feel odd but not panicky...

I totally get the smell thing tho... people seem to get insulted when I walk away from them because I can't stand their cologne or whatnot. I'm tell them it's nothing to do with them, it's just the smell itself, but people just don't undrrstand.