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Get ready for some rambling because I don’t know what to do with this information. TLDR.
Ever since I can remember I would randomly smell different scents- scents that were no where near me let alone in the same place as me. I never looked up anything like this until recently and the most popular thing I saw was something called “Phantom Smell”. However, people with Phantom Smell say they smell something burning like toast or a chemical like smell, something always bad it seemed. I have bad allergies and have been on allergy medicine since I can remember as well and as I grew older and developed depression the smells come more frequently I feel. When I was younger I would only smell something here and there, have a long few year break, then start smelling something again.
The smells I most commonly smelled was freshly dug dirt or specifically Lipsmackers Watermelon chapstick. Now that I’m older I have been smelling freshly cut watermelon, flat soda pops, fresh cut onions, and other smells that seem nostalgic to me but I can’t quite place. These smells have always only lasted a second or two but they would be strong or very mild. Enough for me to register what they were and then they vanish.
I have a very great and close best friend of ten years and I have always expressed to them when I would randomly smell something. I was getting ready to leave their house a few years back when I randomly smelled orange soda pop. They, however, did not have orange soda pop in their home. I received a text a few hours later from my friend saying the party they were attending had orange soda pop.
The same friend has gone on vacation twice this year and both times I smelled freshly cut juicy watermelon. These scents can get so powerful I swear it’s like visualizing the item into existence just by the smell. And each time I texted them and told them what I had smelled they came back each time with the answer of they had watermelon in their possessions each time.
The most recent smell I’ve had was a peeled banana.