People think I'm intolerant to smells (because they are only mildly irritated by them, or don't notice them at all) but I suspect my sensitivity to smell is dialled up to the max
If I am downwind of someone smoking a cigarette outside, I can detect it over 100yds away. "How can you smell it from that far away?" They say skeptically. Well, I just can. And it still offends my nostrils at that distance.
Some particular smells really provoke a strong reaction (like get it away from me Now)
I suspect I have a stronger than usual reaction to the obvious stuff that NT people also don't like (body odour, bad breath, public toilets, rotten food, bin juice, poo) but I also have a particular aversion to the smell of cigarettes, cannabis, and a particular Hugo boss aftershave (if someone is wearing this on a packed train full of smells, my brain isolates it and tells me).
Other smells turn my stomach in the morning in particular, as the "wrong smell for the time of day". Walking past a fish market, or if someone starts eating a sandwich on the train at 9am, it nauseates me more than if they did it at 1pm.
