Sounds daft, but when a smell gets up your nose!

Slap some Vick on your chest

I always know when I have a cold coming on because I can smell tobacco smoke where there is none. Have you asked if any of your neighbours can smell it, phoenix?

Damn good thinking merlot! Don't know why I didn't think of it myself!

Years ago Mr P had the contract for sorting out the drains for a local rendering plant. They used to make the apprentices smear Vick under their noses to stop the truly awful stench making them retch.

I think perhaps I may wait until I have finished my glass of wine though!

If it goes on and no-one else can smell it might be worth getting a doctor to have a look up your hooter etc- might be a problem/infection there that's easily fixed.

Dab some perfume on the end of your nose...
Yesterday I walked past an Indian restaurant in town and the smell of curry was so strong and so lovely that I went and bought some ingredients and made curry for dinner last night.
Smells can be very evocative, or nostalgic, or sometimes, as in your case, very irritating. Has it gone by now?

Gone for now, but might happen again later when I have to repeat the exercise

Be prepared! Try the Vick trick before the smell can get up your nose...

Don't pathologists offer Vick to rookie policemen at their first post mortem?

Or have I been reading too many crime novels?

Smell is the main memory trigger of all the senses so iit's no wonder smells stay with us. I'd imagine lingering smells are something to do with the small hairs in the nose [??] combined with something it triggers in our brain [probably due to learning how to differentiate poisonous from non poisonous foodstufs going back to hunter gatherer days and also needing to know when a foodstuff [ie the mammoth we've recently killed] has gone off. But why don't lovely smells linger in the same way [??].