Pets have odors, but it isn’t nearly as overwhelming if you are around it all the time. Sometimes houses have faint smells like a musty basement that are enough to ignore when around them all the time. Even residual smells from cooking can impact how a house smells!
Absence makes things the brain normally filters out noticeable again. Also going elsewhere with different smells can make home smells more noticeable. Heck, when I get back from trips sometimes the house smells wonderful because it smells like home!
Pets have odors, but it isn’t nearly as overwhelming if you are around it all the time. Sometimes houses have faint smells like a musty basement that are enough to ignore when around them all the time. Even residual smells from cooking can impact how a house smells!
Absence makes things the brain normally filters out noticeable again. Also going elsewhere with different smells can make home smells more noticeable. Heck, when I get back from trips sometimes the house smells wonderful because it smells like home!
It’s known as olfactory fatigue.