It takes years to find your signature scent. Then, once you do, you can never actually smell it on yourself. You’ve probably heard someone dismiss the complaint, saying you just get used to it, reassuring you that everyone else can in fact still smell the fragrance—which sounds crazy. It’s not.
New York magazine reached out to Pamela Dalton, a cognitive psychologist at Monell Chemical Senses Center, who has spent ove...