On day five of COVID, I woke up to the sinking realisation that I couldn’t smell anything. It was as if someone had flipped a switch. All the smells had simply vanished from the world.Slightly desperate, I put candles and spices and bars of soap right up against my nose – all to no avail. I spent a surreal 10 minutes cleaning the catbox in a complete olfactory void.An odourless world was profoundly disorienting, but the feeling of surreal otherness was not unfamiliar.
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