My GLP-1 Medication Changed the Way Perfume Smells to Me

My GLP-1 Medication Changed the Way Perfume Smells to Me

When one writer started taking a GLP-1 medication a few months ago, she didn’t know was that it would make her hate some of her favorite perfumes. Here, she investigates whether or not semaglutides can change one’s sense of smell.

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When I started taking a GLP-1 medication in October, I knew it would probably change a few things—our weekly dinner plan, how my pants fit, my relationship to alcohol (initial research shows low-dose GLP-1 drug patients drink less of it). What I didn’t know was that it would make me hate some of my favorite perfumes. — Read more in My GLP-1 Medication Changed the Way Perfume Smells to Me at Allure.

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