"Genetic quirk", you say?

Wait, is that true? Is someone able to smell ants?

Who the fuck is out here censoring fuck?

Holy shit I thought I was either full of shit or a mutant freak. I'm happy to be a mutant freak.

I feel so validated right now you guys have no idea.

This just tells me ant particles are constantly flying into my nose and mouth and I don't have receptors for them. Gross

It's like me figuring out after 23 years that most people don't sneeze looking at the sun

Wait are you telling me y’all actually don’t smell ants? They’re a weird and kinda smell like blue cheese. Definitely the smellier of insects.

Ant smell is for communicating with other ants. These are ant smellers not human. The ant-people have been controlling our governments. It's true! Look it up!

Mine has always been vision and hearing hard sounds, like doors closing. I can hear all the stupid little sounds like that. And I'm just weirdly good at deciphering shadows at night as long as there's some light.

I'm sure in ancient times this variation of who has good senses for what served a purpose.

Probably similar to that "bitterness" test that a lot of kids got to do in science class where you taste that little strip of paper. To some it's nothing, to others it's very bitter. Genetics has given some the extra "taste", supposedly that might allow people to avoid eating poisonous things containing oxalates or glucosinates. Unfortunately it also means you probably dislike things lie IPA beers or other foods that have bitter compounds that don't bother others.

It's seem to be the same as with cilantro a genetic trait that some people have and other don't

https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/61/2/85/1756864?login=false

Dunno if that a good source as everything i found about that exept for thos page talked about the tiktok post and not science

Tldr : ( i did not read the article in full ) the smell is described as a moldy pina colada

Gotta love how they see a video talking about it, with comments talking about it, and their first step is to post on Facebook asking about it before doing a simple search on their own.

Some people wipe standing up...

Same as asparagus wee. Man, when anyone has eaten asparagus I can smell it before I enter the door to the bathroom. When I have eaten it myself, I’m partly horrified and partly morbidly fascinated. What the fuck is up with only some people being able to smell it.

I can smell wasps nests. The queen odor is very strong to me. But other smells people notice are lost on me.

And I hear everything. Autism I guess.

I can only smell them when I kill them 🤷‍♂️

Formic acid

I can't smell living ants, but there's a common species of ant in the US that smells like rotten coconut when squished.

Great, now im gonna accidently inhale some ants as I try to smell them.