Your House Stinks!

Modified: 2026-08-06 7:53 PM CDST

• When you return to your house after a long absence, it always seems to smell worse than usual.
  • Well, it always smells that way!
  • It is just the phenomenon of sensory fatigue (a type of sensory adaptation).
  • As you live in your house, you no longer can perceive the smells around you.
  • But, while on a trip, your nose can recover.
• Then when you return, you smell your house like everyone else smells it.

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