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Some people also have a distorted sense of smell, a condition known as parosmia, or perceive odors that aren't there, known as phantosmia.

She developed parosmia in February 2021, three months after catching coronavirus and losing her sense of smell.

Parosmia is essentially a distorted sense of smell.

Milly's twin sister caught coronavirus around the same time but didn't get any symptoms, and Milly doesn't know anyone else with parosmia.

It is estimated that about 65% of people who get coronavirus will temporarily lose their sense of smell, known as anosmia, and that at least 10% of those go on to develop parosmia - or a rarer condition, phantosmia, when you smell something that isn't there.