What are the smell disorders?
People who experience smell disorders either have a loss in their ability to smell or changes in the way they perceive odors. Hyposmia is a reduced ability to detect odors. Anosmia is the inability to detect odors at all. People who experience changes in how they sense odors may notice that familiar odors are distorted or that something that normally smells pleasant now smells foul. Other people may sense an odor that isn’t present at all.
