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* In [[Robert E Howard]]'s ''Rogues in the House'' [[Conan the Barbarian]] can identify Murilo by his perfume, despite its being scarcely detectable by the civilized.
* Willie “The Nose” Sandowskey from the [[Mc Gurk]] Detective Agency book series by Edmund Wallace Hildick had a keen sense of smell. He was able to smell things others couldn't, and identify the scents.
* ''[[Labyrinths of Echo]]'' has the protagonist met as one of the victim of magical monster accident of the tenday a rich and optimistic eternal student with this ability. Then recruited as help in the same case and later convinced the chief that he is fit to work for the Secret Investigations. Later it turned out that this obviously useful nose is not his only talent: he's surprisingly good with Invisible Magic, and his mother was a talented witch, who taught him some curious child games, such as magical legerdemain. One of the prequels revealed that he was an eternal student out of necessity as much as out of habit: Sniffers either distract themselves from sensory input all the time, or get distracted from most other mental activity, thus usually have problems with development, especially as this sense undermines the incentives to think by supplying ready answers about places, things and people. Thus when he was slow to start talking, his mother decided that best defense is good offense and taught him to learn constantly, as well as some disciplines that were hard to herself - without telling him that it's hard, that it's magic, or anything but fun games at all. As a little twist, this ability covers not only "smell" in the usual sense, but something close to [[Aura Vision]], as it detects "smells" of dreams, curses and [[Layered_World|Dark Side]] just as well.
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