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{{quote|''You can't fool THIS nose!''
|'''[[Wolverine]]''', ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'' TV series.}}
A common superpower, especially among characters with [[Animal Stereotypes|animal themes]]: super-powerful [[Super Senses|smell abilities]].
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May be a form of [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]. Often used to handwave the [[Scarily Competent Tracker]]. If food is involved, see [[Follow Your Nose]]. [[Nose Tapping]] may be used to indicate that they do know.
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== Advertising ==
* Toucan Sam, the mascot of Froot Loops, has the ability to smell out his cereal from up to several miles away. This probably counts, as most toucans probably don't have nearly so well honed a sense of smell.
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* ''[[Saki (manga)|Saki]]'' has the Tsuruga Mahjong Club's president, Kanbara, who was revealed in the bonus chapter of volume 7 to be capable of detecting people by scent. This even bypasses Momo's [[Invisibility|stealth mode]], which works by making people ignore her presence.
* It's been stated that [[Toriko]] has a nose better than a bloodhound's.
* Yuuya Fungami in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]] Part 4 (Diamond Is Unbreakable)'' benefits from a supernatural sense of smell courtesy of his Stand, Highway Star. It's precise enough to smell hormonal activities in people around him and accurately deduce their current health condition or their recent activities.
== Comic Books ==
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* So does Sensor Girl of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], who is actually {{spoiler|Princess Projectra}}.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic strip "The Love Invasion", the Doctor is able to work out that the Lend-a-Hand girls aren't human because they smell odd. Rose even refers to his sense of smell as "the infallible space nose".
* ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' villain the Mole Man has this, along with excellent hearing, both to make up for his poor eyesight.
== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Nexus (fanfic)|Nexus]]'' This is how Jack was able to realize he was about to get attacked by Scarecrows. He also deduces {{spoiler|that while in the Demon World,}} that if he could smell the demons, they could smell him. More specifically they could smell his {{spoiler|Sparda blood.}}
== Film ==
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* The main plot point in the novel ''[[Perfume]]'' is the main character's incomparable sense of smell.
* The main character of Salman Rushdie's ''Midnight's Children'' has the ability to smell things no one else can smell, such as lies or oncoming disaster.
* Sergeant Angua of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' has this even in human form, which proves to be very helpful in several cases, notably the investigation in the dwarf mines during ''[[
** Lance Constable Sally has a similar ability, but she senses blood, and it is in some cases more useful than Angua's nose, which irks her.
** Unfortunately for them, once the criminals realised there was a werewolf in the watch (although they don't know who, exactly, it is) they started carrying around scent bombs to muddle their trail.
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'''Doctor:''' My nose has special powers.
'''Nancy''': Really? Is that why it's...Do your ears have special powers too? }}
* In ''[[Torchwood]]: Children of Earth'', Clem can smell that Gwen is {{spoiler|pregnant}} and that Ianto is "queer."
* [[Psych|The Supersniffer!]]
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{{quote|'''Wesley:''' Good Lord! How did you--
'''Cordelia:''' That's unbelievable. I didn't think you ever had sex. }}
* The hero of ''[[The Sentinel (TV series)|The Sentinel]]'' had this ability, along with the other senses. So did at least one villain on that show, his [[Evil Counterpart]].
* P.T., from ''The Kids from CAPER'', had this.
* Rachel Pirzad has this on ''Alphas''.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Wednesday]]'', the protagonist realizes Thing is spying on her when she smells the distinctive and expensive hand cream he uses.
* In ''[[Power Rangers Wild Force]]'', the Org Dutchess [[Dark Action Girl| Toxica]] can smell humans the way a bloodhound can smell prey; {{spoiler| this is how she discovers that the one claiming to be Master Org is, in fact, an imposter.}}
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In ''[[Prickly City]]'', when Winslow claims a [[Superman]] origin (in a [[Multiple Choice Past]]), he says his super power is "smell, of course," pointing at his nose.
* ''[[Peanuts]]'':
** In a very early strip, Snoopy's nose is so keen, he is able to smell someone who is just ''thinking'' about food! In a later strip, catching a whiff of his favorite food — pizza — enables him to make a fast dash out of his doghouse before a huge icicle crashes down on it.
** In a much later strip, Charlie Brown claims that Snoopy's brother Spike "can smell a plate of fudge from a mile away".
** In another strip, Snoopy is pretending to be the World War I Flying Ace, but it starts to rain. He runs into the house and into bed with his owner:
{{quote|'''Charlie Brown:''' I smell a wet pilot!}}
* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Hobbes, being a tiger, has a good sense of smell, and has unique words for different smells, such as "snippid" for burning leaves. When Calvin asks what the word for ''his'' smell is, Hobbes says "terrible", causing Calvin to chase after him.
== Tabletop Games ==
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* In ''Discworld Noir'', Lewton becomes a werewolf, then must match scents (distinguished by colored fumes) to other scents in order to track down clues and identify the culprits.
* In ''[[Chain of Memories]]'' the darkness starts to affect Riku's sense of smell, giving him an ability sense metaphysical things such as people's auras that way.
* Many [[Pokémon]] have this ability. In fact, the move ''Odor Sleuth'' takes advantage of this, allowing Ghost Types to be hit with Normal and Fighting type moves and lowering evasion to normal levels, making it quite useful. The appropriately named Nosepass (and it's evolved form, Probopass) can use its [[Gag Nose| big nose]] as a ''compass''.
* This is one of Akane Owari's talents in ''[[Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair]]''; her sense of smell is more sensitive than the other students, and she can pick up unusual odors quicker, like blood, bad body odor, or food cooking.
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** Also Krosp, a humanoid cat, retains his cat senses.
** One Jaeger was able to recognize that a person was hiding behind a curtain listening in on a conversation, by smelling the soap the hiding person used.
* [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Belkar]] from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' could use his nose to not only immediately recognise Gender-Changed Roy, but to distinguish between Elan and Nale. (Granted, [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|Nale wasn't exactly making it difficult]], but it was only the scent that clued Belkar in).
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0842.html Belkar's is sharp enough that Roy complains that he didn't smell that the bodies were dead.]
* Brelvis from ''[[Magellan]]''.
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* ''[[Unsounded]]''. Sette's sense of smell borders on supernatural. She seems able to [[Supernatural Sensitivity|smell magic]].
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/02-16.html how Red leads them through] [[The Lost Woods]], ignoring [[Stay on the Path]].
* Amorphs like Schlock in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' have a very acute sense of smell, able to identify people and their next of kin and [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-06-04 deduce what they had for lunch, what they wash their chothes with and what brand of soap or other bodily care product they use by smell alone]. Justified as amorphs don't develop eyes naturally and need their other senses to compensate for their blindness before [[Grows on Trees|picking eyes from special trees]].
== Web Original ==
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{{quote|"Motor-oil and competence." }}
* ''[[Gravity Falls]]''; in "The Deep End", the ''really'' tough lifeguard at the public pool can identify what type of sunscreen Dipper is wearing simply by scent.
* ''[[Hotel Transylvania]]'' subverts this with Wayne (a werewolf) who used to be able to do this, but now claims that years of changing his children's diapers has permanently crippled his sense of smell. However, his daughter Winnie (now a toddler) plays the Trope straight, able to use the scent on a piece of Johnny's clothing to not only tell where he is now, but when he got there and what route he took to do so.
== Real Life ==
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