From rose & lavender to musk, fragrance expert helps Covid patients learn to smell again SECTIONS Last Updated: May 19, 2021, 08:20 AM IST Share Getty Images To begin the process of helping people learn to smell again, the expert sets up an array of 18 custom-blended fragrances. NEW YORK: After 13-year-old Sahil Shah lost his sense of smell to COVID-19 in November, his parents looked everywhere for help. "We met with neurologists, neurosurgeons, ENT specialists, and all of them said if it was supposed to come back, it would have come back by now," said Sahil's father, Pratik Shah. But six months later, the teenager from Chicago still had no sense of smell or taste.