I think the parent comment meant that the infected individual might not be addressing the smell because they could not perceive it, and it would therefore be greater than typical for them.
Yes, the three of us lost our sense of smell. Now, I am back and can smell again, but I cannot smell my body odour after a workout even so normally it smells really. This is at the moment the only thing I cannot smell.
The questions are: is it because the infection had for effect a change in my body odour? Or is it because I recovered all my sense at the exception of the capacity to smell my own body odour?
Nobody in the family can answer (too small or still suffering from anosmia) and I am not yet ready to ring the bell next door after a hard workout and ask the poor soul the smell!
But isn't COVID induced Ansomia makes us loose the sense of smell and not that we stop generating body odour?