Does swimming effect your sense of smell?
My wife and I recently had a lovely dinner with a person very knowledgable about wines. We are both wine lovers and appreciated his wonderful "wine lesson". However, when he got into the description of the wines in terms of berrys and oak and leather etc I had to stop him and say that I can sometimes detect a raisin taste or maybe even a blackberry taste but I have never been able to get any of those other subtle tastes that the wine experts use to describe wines.
So he asked me if I had sinus problems or something else that might effect my sense of smell. Well, the only thing I could think of was chlorine. Does anyone have any thoughts or information on wether 30 plus years of swimming and breathing that wonderful chlorine smell could have ruined or at least altered my sense of smell? If so I may go to exclusively drinking 2 Buck Chuck!!!
Glenn:)
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I have often thought that swimming has affected my sense of smell and the cause of my low threshold to heat.
When I was very young (age 8-10), my physician made me wear nose clips because my sinuses were so bad from swimming. There is a recent thread on this issue.
I am a wine lover myself and I will not be retiring to Florida or Arizona, but I will be somewhere in Sonoma County when I retire. While I can't necessarily smell all of the different fruits and "trees" in the wine, I certainly can taste it and I don't let it diminish my love of wine.
On the bright side, when there is a "bad" smell in the air - I don't have nearly the reaction my husband does who can smell anything from a mile away.
Geek, you don't know what you are missing.
I have often thought that swimming has affected my sense of smell and the cause of my low threshold to heat.
When I was very young (age 8-10), my physician made me wear nose clips because my sinuses were so bad from swimming. There is a recent thread on this issue.
I am a wine lover myself and I will not be retiring to Florida or Arizona, but I will be somewhere in Sonoma County when I retire. While I can't necessarily smell all of the different fruits and "trees" in the wine, I certainly can taste it and I don't let it diminish my love of wine.
On the bright side, when there is a "bad" smell in the air - I don't have nearly the reaction my husband does who can smell anything from a mile away.
Geek, you don't know what you are missing.
