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* [[MageSpecies Kymerans]] in Creator/NancyACollins's UrbanFantasy series ''Golgotham'' each have a very distinct individual scent. Good or neutral Kymerans tend to have herbal or floral scents (although SupremeChef Lafo instead smells like Bananas Foster and corn dogs); [[EvilSmellsBad evil Kymerans tend more towards sulfur, fish oil, scorched metal]], and other similarly [[SarcasmMode delightful]] things. Additionally, a change in scent can be a warning flag: [[spoiler:Erys]] -- who later turns out to be [[spoiler:Nina's [[GrandTheftMe comatose body hijacked]] by an astral-projecting [[BigBad Esau]]]] -- has an "unnatural" mix of molasses and dill; [[spoiler:Dori]]'s scent goes from bergamot and orchids (when she's a [[StealthPun garden-variety]] [[FantasticRacism bigoted]] {{yandere}} ''[[{{Jerkass}} annoyance]]'') to ashes and black pepper (when she starts [[spoiler:committing assault and being an accessory to worse crimes]]); and even [[spoiler:Hexe]]'s usual chypre/citrus/leather sours and picks up a hint of mold [[spoiler:when he's being corrupted against his will by an ArtifactOfDoom]] and is [[spoiler:on the verge of irreparably alienating his pregnant consort]].

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* ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'': To Freddy the hamster, many people have one.
** Sophie smells like sunflower seeds.
** Sophie's mom smells like lavender and chervil.
** Mr. John smells strongly of his pets, a cat and two guinea pigs. Freddy finds the smell unbearable before he gets used to it.
** Professor Fleischkopf smells like his sulfurous anti-dandruff shampoo.
** Linda Carson smells like apple and peach blossom.
** Jenny smells like rosemary.
** Atira smells like jasmine.
* [[MageSpecies Kymerans]] in Creator/NancyACollins's UrbanFantasy series ''Golgotham'' ''Literature/{{Golgotham}}'' each have a very distinct individual scent. Good or neutral Kymerans tend to have herbal or floral scents (although SupremeChef Lafo instead smells like Bananas Foster and corn dogs); [[EvilSmellsBad evil Kymerans tend more towards sulfur, fish oil, scorched metal]], and other similarly [[SarcasmMode delightful]] things. Additionally, a change in scent can be a warning flag: [[spoiler:Erys]] -- who later turns out to be [[spoiler:Nina's [[GrandTheftMe comatose body hijacked]] by an astral-projecting [[BigBad Esau]]]] -- has an "unnatural" mix of molasses and dill; [[spoiler:Dori]]'s scent goes from bergamot and orchids (when she's a [[StealthPun garden-variety]] [[FantasticRacism bigoted]] {{yandere}} ''[[{{Jerkass}} annoyance]]'') to ashes and black pepper (when she starts [[spoiler:committing assault and being an accessory to worse crimes]]); and even [[spoiler:Hexe]]'s usual chypre/citrus/leather sours and picks up a hint of mold [[spoiler:when he's being corrupted against his will by an ArtifactOfDoom]] and is [[spoiler:on the verge of irreparably alienating his pregnant consort]].
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* ''Literature/RealMermaids'': When Michaela is living as a human, she smells like her favorite shampoo, Peachtree Pro-vitamin.
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* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': While being attacked by axebeaks way above [[SquishyWizard her weight class,]] Fiora scares the entire flock away by using ''prestidigitation'' to mimic the telltale scent of an ankheg, a local burrowing predator who pops out of the ground to eat other savannah-dwellers.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': the most famous of the game's many, ''many'' [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] have very particular odors, pleasant ones in the case of the good-aligned metallic dragons, and harsh or nasty smells for the evil chromatic dragons. Brass dragons have a sandy odor, bronze dragons smell of sea spray, copper dragons have a stony scent, gold dragons smell of saffron and incense, and silver dragons carry the scent of rain. Black dragons stink of rot and foul water, blue dragons smell of ozone and sand, green dragons have the stinging scent of chlorine, red dragons smell of sulfur and pumice, and white dragons have a crisp, faintly chemical odor.
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* Snistroms from ''Literature/TheDivide'' series reportedly smell so bad that people around them want to throw up.

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* Snistroms from ''Literature/TheDivide'' series ''Literature/TheDivideTrilogy'' reportedly smell so bad that people around them want to throw up.
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* In ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'', the selkie Kona tells his half-mermaid girlfriend Tempest that her hair smells like strawberries, even though she's been living underwater for eight months.

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* In ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'', ''Literature/Tempest2011'', the selkie Kona tells his half-mermaid girlfriend Tempest that her hair smells like strawberries, even though she's been living underwater for eight months.
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* In ''Literature/{{Tempest}}'', the selkie Kona tells his half-mermaid girlfriend Tempest that her hair smells like strawberries, even though she's been living underwater for eight months.
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* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Louisa Garneau can recognize when [[SuperEmpowering Resistor]] is about to appear because the manifestation is accompanied by the smell of her father's pipe tobacco and lemon drops.
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* In ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatformThirteen,'' [[RichBitch Mrs. Trottle]] wears a custom-made scent called Maneater. After she disappears with [[SpoiledBrat Raymond]], the heroes are unable to find her until the sewer-dwelling Plodger catches a whiff of it from her bathwater and tracks her down.

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* In ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatformThirteen,'' ''Literature/TheSecretOfPlatform13,'' [[RichBitch Mrs. Trottle]] wears a custom-made scent called Maneater. After she disappears with [[SpoiledBrat Raymond]], the heroes are unable to find her until the sewer-dwelling Plodger catches a whiff of it from her bathwater and tracks her down.

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