Seems like they are going to scare a whole bunch of people for nothing. There are many reasons for losing your sense of smell.
True, Harry Waugh was the managing director of Chateau LaTour. He was visiting Napa in the 80s, got in a car accident, and lost his sense of smell and never got it back.
I marveled how he could taste wine without that sense. He died at age 97 many years later.
my dad’s 83 and he can’t smell shit.....literally :)
“Do you smell that?”
“Smell what?”
“Seriously, it’s gross!”
“I don’t smell anything.”
“You are going to die, soon.”
“OMG!”
Don’t do that to your friends.