Symptoms of a weird smell after COVID-19
In the May 2021 studyTrusted Source, researchers found that people experiencing a weird smell after having COVID-19 were most likely to describe it in the following ways:
sewage: 54.5 percent
rotten meat: 18.7 percent
rotten eggs: 13.4 percent
moldy socks: 7.5 percent
citrus: 6.0 percent
The following were the most common triggers:
most odors: 46.6 percent
perfume: 22.4 percent
any odor: 10.5 percent
frying smell: 10.5 percent
meat: 10.1 percent
Other waysTrusted Source people with parosmia have described their smells include:
like cigarettes, or smoky
chemical
like vinegar or ammonia
rotten
skunk-like
distorted, strange, weird
onions
burned rubber
https://www.healthline.com/health/weird-smell-in-nose-covid#symptoms