Smell trouble: the fight for the powers of the nose | Research and Innovation
A decade ago, in a field of orange trees in southern Greece, Stéphane Tawil realised that he had lost his sense of smell – completely.Tawil was with friends who were remarking on the perfumed scent of oranges. But he couldn’t smell anything.Costly condition‘I got a cold before this and when you have a cold you usually lose that sense of smell,’ Tawil said. ‘I remember not paying much attention to it. But then it lasted for quite a while.’