> Even though I don't have PD, Margaret and I _both_ experience this phenomenon. > We knows (!) that it's a phantom because we don't experience the same smell > at the same time and the only things she can normally detect are bad > smells ;^) Hi mark and Margaret, I am losing my sense of smell, except for very strong odours, AND I have my very own "phantom" smell that no-one else can smell. It steals up on me at random, though it has something to do with my medication, I think. It is an unpleasant, sickly-sweet smell, a little like the smell of rotting floral vegetation you can get in the tropics. Jim