G’day Dr Karl here, Now love songs and poems have been written to the beauties of the lips, eyes and even the cheekbones of the human face. But for the poor old nose, the only options are to pay through it, or else keep it to the grindstone. We see our human sense of smell as woefully inadequate compared to other animals – but that is totally incorrect. Even worse, the loss of smell can be quite disabling or even dangerous. Awareness of our sense of smell has become more of a hot topic recently with the COVID-19 pandemic. A significant number of people who get the virus lose their sense of smell early on. It seems that a loss of smell can be a very good early sign of COVID-19 infection.