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* [[Blade]]'s sense of smell is slightly superhuman and he's especially good at sniffing out vampires.
* Wolfsbane, a werewolf in the original [[New Mutants]], has this.
** As does Catspaw, a were-giant purple cat in the original Hellions.
* So does Sensor Girl of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]], who is actually {{spoiler|Princess Projectra}}.
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** Probably justified by [[Clannad/WMG|this]].
* For a guy whose head is just a helmet [[Samurai 7|Kikuchiyo]] has damn good sense of smell. The Emperor found out the hard way.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', Joey's nose is apparently so good he can smell the perfume Mai uses to tag her cards from the opposite side of a dueling arena. Good thing he'd managed to get over that cold he'd caught at the beginning of the episode.
** Mai's ability to identify 60 or so cards apart by different perfumes is pretty impressive itself.
*** [[Truth in Television]] - Veteran perfume-makers are often cabable of recognizing hundreds of different scents.
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* [[Inuyasha]] makes use of this, occasionally having him track enemies by scent and be able to tell that there's trouble in a nearby village because he can smell human blood. [[Fridge Logic]] sets in when it cuts to a pillar of smoke and you wonder why he didn't smell ''that'' first. This is used as a [[Weaksauce Weakness]] almost as often as a strength, as strong odors knock Inuyasha out. Pity serious villains never take advantage of it.
** [[Aloof Big Brother|Sesshoumaru's]] sense of smell is even better than Inuyasha's. He once caught the scent of something that was many miles away and produced only by a tiny sliver of flesh. He can also smell spirits that are in the area but haven't even manifested. Unlike Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru has never been put in a position where the sensitivity of his nose can be used against him except in situations where the [[Big Bad]] has deliberately set up a scent trail for him to follow in an effort to lead him into a trap.
* Kasumi Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the Blue Sky]]'' invokes this trope. He is said to have a sense of smell equal to a dog, and it is an important plot element in several episodes, as Kenshiro uses his sense of smell to detect poisons, bomb chemicals, and track people across an entire city. Apparently, this is just him, as none of the other Hokuto style practitioners display this ability.
** Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' also has this ability, but he rarely uses it in the series.
* Dorochette the Dog Chimera in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
** In the manga we later see two other chimera who can fight by smell. Ed counters it by finding some old dynamite and overwhelming them with the smell of the ammonia he converts the ammonium nitrate into.
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* [[Evie Scelan]]'s main ability is to track anything, mundane or magical, by scent.
* 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 ''[[Discworld/Thud|Thud]]''
** 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.
* This takes two different forms in [[The Wheel of Time]] series. Wolfbrothers are characters with an unnatural affinity for wolves. Among several other abilities, their sense of smell is enhanced so much that they can tell the emotional state of people around them even without any visual cues. They can even detect such things as deception and madness, which is immensely handy. [[First Episode Spoiler|Perrin is one]]. In case you're wondering, such an ability is biologically impossible, but since this trait is believed to be [[A Wizard Did It|caused by magic]], that's all right. Also, there are "sniffers", a kind of people with an inborn ability to [[Violence Detector|sense violence as a smell on people or places]]. Sniffers are rare and maybe even nonexistent south of the Borderlands, but still more common - or at least, more socially accepted - than Wolfbrothers.
* In the ''[[Women of the Otherworld]]'' series by Kelley Armstrong, a werewolf's sense of smell is incredibly strong to the point where werewolves find it necessary to use specifically ''non''-scented hygiene products if they want their sense of smell to work at full capacity. [[Action Girl|Elena]], a female werewolf, can't even stand to use scented hand soap, as it severely interferes with her ability to smell anything else. She herself has the best nose of her Pack, and once she catches a scent, she'll be able to remember and hunt the person down by it even years later. It's shown in ''Bitten'' that newly-bitten and inexperienced werewolves will likely still use scented products if they did so as a human, having not yet learned to rely on their nose just as much as their eyes and ears, which puts them at a distinct disadvantage against other werewolves.
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* 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".
** Similarly, one of the things that tips him off about a clone in the episode "The Poison Sky" is her smell.
** Poked fun at when a character in the episode "The Empty Child" wanted to know how the Doctor had managed to follow her. Note: this was when the Doctor was being played by [[Christopher Eccleston]], who has a fairly prominent nose and ears.
{{quote|'''9th Doctor''': I'm good at following, me. Got the nose for it.
'''Nancy:''' People can't usuallly follow me if I don't want 'em to.
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* [[Psych|The Supersniffer!]]
* Napoleon LeNez and Oscar Vibenius in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]''.
* In ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]'', Wolf manages to follow Virgina's scent to the middle of a swamp, where she's buried under a mass of vines. Sort of justified in that he's a werewolf.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'':
** Vampires have a fairly limited version of this. They are able to smell who people have been close to recently, but are rarely shown tracking people in frequently traveled areas. This ability is even called into question at one point. [[The Smart Guy|Wesley]] declares that Angel's nose shouldn't be as sensitive as he claims it to be. Angel takes a good whiff, and informs Wes that he had sex with a bottle blonde the night before.
{{quote|'''Wesley:''' Good Lord! How did you--
'''Cordelia:''' That's unbelievable. I didn't think you ever had sex. }}
** [[Dhampyr|Connor]] either has a better version, or has been given [[Training From Hell|more incentive to get good at it]].
** Oz, a werewolf who usually seems completely normal when in human form, manages to smell Willow while driving around in a van. He can even tell she's afraid. Later Oz is clued into Willow's relationship with Tara because he can smell her scent on her.
* 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''.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* [[Werewolf: The Forsaken|Werewolves]], of course. Supernaturally good tracking abilities, Rituals that allow them to share an acquired scent between pack mates, and Gifts that allow them to smell things such as lies.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' adepts are people with magical potential who, instead of learning spells or dealing with spirits, use it to train their bodies to superhuman levels. There are, predictably, five options for buying the enhanced sense power.
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* Ciel in [[Tsukihime]] can tell that Shiki been fighting Nero Chaos and that he had an erotic dream by smelling him. She basically just walks up to him and starts sniffing. She has no real animal emphasis however.
* The [[No Name Given|Dog]] from [[Secret of Evermore]] can find [[A Wizard Did It|alchemy ingredients]] anywhere.
* 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.
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* Brelvis from ''[[Magellan]]''.
* Happens sometimes in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'', especially with Kell.
* Terezi of ''[[Homestuck]]'' is completely blind, but can taste and smell color. To the point that she is entirely capable of using a computer simply by smelling or licking the screen. It also lets her figure out Karkat's real [[Alien Blood|blood color]], long before it was even revealed to the audience.
* ''[[The Dreamland Chronicles]]'': Nicodemus.
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040621c Tracking Star Man. Allegedly]
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* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Homer Simpson has demonstrated the ability to smell frosting decorations on a cake in another room:
{{quote|Wait, I can smell a cake...frosting says "Farewell...and...''*gasps*'' BEST WISHES!"}}
* In ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', a [[Catgirl]] and a Snakeman were able to take on an invisible Batman this way.
* [[Codename: Kids Next Door]]: Numbuh 3. In Operation R.A.I.N.B.O.W.S., she uses her nose to track down wild [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|monkeys]].
* [[Scarily Competent Tracker|June]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has Nila, a giant [[Buffy-Speak|mole-creature-thing]] that she rides around on that can follow anyone's scent.
* Candace is apparently so obsessed with her brothers [[Phineas and Ferb]] that she can ''smell'' them. When one character quips "what do they smell like" she replies;
{{quote|"Motor-oil and competence." }}
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