One more example for your kitchen analogy, albeit coming from a different direction, is probably the smell of Durian.

When you first encounter the smell, you experiences pretty intensive stench - maybe like rotten meat. When you manage to get over it and eat it a bunch of times it does not stink for you anymore. You still recognize it’s a very intense smell, but it’s not stench anymore.

However, for everyone else unfamiliar with it it still stinks like hell.