EditorialLeigha Marsh smells a product at The Apothecarium Dispensary on the first day of recreational marijuana sales at Maplewood, N.J., April 21, 2022 (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialMartina Madaschi smells an extract during a sensory workshop to help people regain olfactory abilities lost to their COVID-19 infections, at the Catholic University ?Sacro Cuore? in Piacenza, Italy, July 19, 2021. (Fabio Bucciarelli/The New York Times)
EditorialA designer purse that Kerry Andersen bought before Hurricane Laura that has been cleaned but still smells moldy, in New Orleans on Feb. 5, 2022. (Edmund D. Fountain/The New York Times)
EditorialAn odor wheel, which helps people find the right terms ? like nutty, eucalyptus, hot electric or tingle ? to categorize smells. (Caroline Yang/The New York Times)
EditorialAn odor wheel, which helps people find the right terms ? like nutty, eucalyptus, hot electric or tingle ? to categorize smells. (Caroline Yang/The New York Times)
EditorialLynn Jacobs smells a native black cohosh flower on her Long Island property in Wading River, N.Y., Oct. 9, 2021. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)
EditorialMichele Crippa helps Martina Madaschi recognize smells at a therapeutic workshop in Piacenza, Italy, on July 19, 2021. (Fabio Bucciarelli/The New York Times)
EditorialMonica Franklin found herself with both parosmia, a distortion in the senses of smell and taste, and phantosmia, or detecting phantom smells, two months after she had recovered from the coronavirus. (Melissa Bunni Elian/The New York Times)
EditorialVadim Berdyayev smells a sample from the small winery located in his garage in Anapa, Russia, Oct. 5, 2020. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)