Mm, that's odd. I remember when my aunt did a liver cleanse, her skin smelled like cigarettes for days as she was "detoxing," but she hadn't smoked for years. I'm not sure what is happening to you. That is really weird. I hope you figure it out. It hard to experience something that no one else is experiencing (or believes). Smiles to you.

Is it possible someone has been smoking in your car or in your living space when you're not around? The tars from cigarette smoke can get into things and cause lingering odors that never go away.

I had an electrostatic air purifier that I used at work when everyone was smoking around me. I cleaned and cleaned it, but whenever I cranked it up, it made the room smell like cigarettes.

Guess I don't have to worry about it anymore, looks like someone stole it off my carport...haven't seen it in years. They steal anything here that looks like it might be worth something in a pawn shop. I even have to lock up my garden hoses overnight.

Hi, if it continues I would talk to a doctor as phantom smells can be symptoms of other health issues. It'll probably pass though. Similarly a heightened sensitivity to smells is worth invesigating medically if it's a new symptom...

I used to get phantom smells, and I think it was a side-effect of the meds I was on as it went away after I went off them.

I would get this crazy spaced out migraines where I wasn't in pain per se, just lost in the space between my ears and that's when I'd have the phantom smells. I remember one episode where I was at work and smelled the smell so I went around the building looking to see if people in other offices had their windows open. I later went to lunch and drove across town to a bookstore and could still smell that strange smell. Later that evening when I got to my town and stopped at the pet store for dog food, the smell was still with me so I realized there was something going on with me, not the environment.

That sounds like a neurological dysfunction, Wolverine....maybe something to do with migraine or seizure activity. Migraines can cause all kinds of neurological disturbances...I get feelings of doom, minor visual hallucinations called auras, nausea, etc.

Migraines and seizures are actually very similar, I've read. Both are caused by an abnormal firing of neurons in the brain. To be honest, this medical stuff gives me the creeps. But I find it helps to know as much as I can.

I get migraines with aura, more lately than usual.
Most times its the squiggly lines type of aura for about an hour followed by a forehead headache but sometimes I smell flowers and there are none around, strong, to the point of being nauseous... also I get the kind where you just feel like your head is floating a foot off your shoulders, like you are disconnected in a way from the rest of your body.
Neurologist says it's all migraine common activity.
I just read that 75% of CFS patients get such issues...