AP's sense of smell

AP doesn't have any adverse smell issues like other children I've read about. There are no smells that make him gag or go a little haywire.

However, he does like to smell everything lately. Some things are pleasant smells like those of books or candles or the crayons he is using. Some are not pleasant and deal with restroom issues that no one makes a point to smell.

The other week he was at my mother in law's home and she had just made him some bacon. AP walked over to the hot skillet to smell it. Before she could grab him he had stuck his nose on that hot skillet and burned his top lip pretty badly. He knows that skillet is hot (I'll go into his touch issues in another post) but couldn't process that over the fact that he wanted to smell it.



Sensory query: What are some ways to encourage the smelling yet keep it within reasonable parameters?