Smells Funny

Since May, I smell sesame oil when I should be smelling coffee.  I've asked around and haven't been able to figure out why.  I even Googled it hoping that I might find comfort in some random online forum where others reported equally strange olfactory issues.  Nope.  Nothing.

The Dunkin' Donuts coffee they brew at the office every morning smells like it should, but the Illy espresso Soeur brews in her Italian coffee maker at home smells like someone spilled a bottle of sesame oil right next to me.  As does the coffee brewed from the Costa Rican beans a friend hand-delivered directly from Costa Rica to our kitchen.  Maybe higher quality means deeper nutty roast factor which my brain is confusing with the nuttiness of sesame oil?  The only link I can think of is when I had dropped a bottle of sesame oil right in front of the espresso container earlier this year {+}.  Could my brain have mixed the visual and olfactory sensors from that one incident?  Because that would really be something.

What would one do to undo that?  Spill a can of ground espresso beans on purpose to inhale its lovely aroma while looking at a sesame bottle on the counter?  That would be a rather wasteful experiment.  And expensive.  I think one of those Illy cans costs twenty bucks.

On the plus side, coffee ice cream still tastes like coffee.  As does Kahlua, but not as strong as I remember it being.  Or maybe that's because I was nursing a beer on the side.

Basically, my senses are confused.