So, I’m extremely hypersensitive and that includes my olfactory senses. I can smell things that make my family go, “Seriously?”, and it irritates the hell out of them. Outside of a couple of scents, we can’t light candles or use air fresheners in the house. I can smell if the dog had a number one accident on the first floor from the second. That one’s at least helpful.
I definitely notice subtle differences in my husband’s scent, whether he’s showered or not. I can usually tell when he’s been drinking too, even if it’s not on his breath.
There’s a lot of power in pheromones. Sometimes my husband comes home and I wind up in a “good mood” just from inhaling him. I can’t explain it any more bluntly.
I think women’s olfactory sensitivity comes from waaaaay back on the evolutionary trek from tree climbing anthropoids to modern homo sapiens.
In primitive society, women were the gatherers and men were the hunters.
Women developed a higher sense of smell so that they could locate sources of food, berries, edible flowers and plants, roots and grubs.
Men relied mainly on their eyesight, but also had a fairly keen sense of smell to find herds of animals to kill.
Admittedly, a keen sense of smell isn’t really required to find a herd of a thousand animals leaving piles of crap all over the plains.
That is why men seldom seek directions. They just follow their nose...........................