Smelling smoke when there is none

Quilty, not specifically smoke, but my olfactory senses at one time were over sensitive. I could smell the mold in a building that in two years I had not noticed, the human smell of people, and normal smells were so strong that even hand soap was overwhelming. I remember how I complained to my co-workers that they were putting on the whole bottle of "their cheap cologne" when in fact no one could smell it, yet for me it was as if they had bathed in it.

Where I live it is common for people to have their fireplaces on this time of the year as well as outdoor fire pits. If your smell senses are heightened, perhaps this is what you are smelling.

quilty, That is called phantosmia or "phantom smell," also called "olfactory hallucination". I also smelled smoke and at other times it smelled like something electrical burning.

I saw an Ear, Nose and throat Dr. for it years ago when it started. He sent me for an MRI and they said my MRI showed what they see with Lyme Disease. I have no idea what that was but....anyway, it bothered a lot for months but then it got much better. Now it comes and goes once in a while. It seems like certain things set it off. It got really bad when I was around someone smoking one of those electronic cigarettes a few months ago.

interesting about electrical burning, i brought my car in recently, cause i smelled something burning, i would have put money on it, i still smell it sometimes, but brought car in and they said everything was fine, and they didnt smell anything.... so i trust them and my car is fine. thank god...


yeah more sensitive to scents that are truly there and smelling things that are not..