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I too smelled a smell that no one else did. It started @ 1988 when I was 6 years into my PD diagnosis and was about 41 yr. old. (now I am 52/17). I had just started taking Eldepryl, and I began to smell a very strong "BO" type odor all the time, it would get worse when under stress! Thinking that if was caused by my medicines, I carefully experimented to find the culprit, but to no avail. No one else ever smelled the smell, my neurologist could offer no explanation and never noticed a BO on me. Yet it was so "real" to me,that I used special detergent in my laundry to be sure that my clothes were not responsible. My lovely phantom body odor just dissipated after a very neurotic few months. The Nickel analysis was that my PD had gotten to the point where it was obvious to anyone who saw me that I had a problem. Being self conscious about my PD, my mind created another neurosis about one of the great American phobia, smelling badly,and then supplied me with the perfect olfactory hallucination; A BO that was every bit as bad as the infamous one on Seinfeld! Steve Holahan,52/17 Hartford, CT