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Scenting is used to convince -- or trick -- non-rodent eating species that rodents are actually food. Once the snakes have realized that mice are indeed edible, that should be the end of it. Scenting does have pathogen transmission risks.
If anything, the reasonable food change should be back to live -- I've had one or two snakes that backtracked that way. Snakes can be unusually sensitive to the quality/size/taste of frozen rodents, so if you got a new batch of frozen that could be the issue, or even if you need to air out your freezer.
Honestly, though, if it is both snakes with the same symptoms it seems like there's something else going on, maybe with the ATB proximity which would be relatively easy to troubleshoot (move the snakes apart).
I agree 100% with the quarantine suggestion, even in your case (in every case, in fact). A move or other change can trigger a symptomatic episode of some underlying infection that's been dormant. Many people's animals have transmissible health issues that are undetected.
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