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--->'''9th Doctor''': It's my nose. It has special powers.
--->'''Nancy''': Do your ears have special powers too?

* [ScarilyCompetentTracker June]] of AvatarTheLastAirbender has Nila, a giant [[BuffySpeak mole-creature-thing]] that she rides around on that can follow anyone's scent.

* In GrahamMcNeill's {{Warhammer 40000}} {{Ultramarines}} novel ''Black Sun Dead Sky'', their ability to smell "the mothers" on Uriel is what persuades the Unfleshed to listen to him.

** Not just Native Americans. This Troper once met someone who could smell and sometimes even identify people in the next room just through smell. And I myself, on couple occasions, could tell through smelling if someone had been there before I arrived or if someone had (or was having) sex.
*** This Troper agrees, and would like to add things get really weird when you have to explain to people that you know where they are by smell, or when you meet someone who smells very similar to someone you already know.
** Is there a TroperTales page for this?

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* Some TalkingAnimal agents in the {{PPC}} can smell the difference between MarySue characters and regular ones. One of them described a particular Marty Stu as smelling "[[ItTastesLikeFeet Rather like someone mixed about a pint of cat semen into a pile of rotting flowers.]]"

* Sapphire in ''PokemonSpecial'' as part of her WildChild nature. She's, for example, able to detect the location of a trapped Pokemon and long-forgotten hidden entrances by smell alone. She can also figure out the health of a Pokemon based on the smell on their excrement, something Ruby teases her about in the Emerald Arc since her tendency to do this leaves a bit of fecal matter on her nose.

* Florence of ''{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00569.htm]] [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fv01600.htm]]. May be arbitrarily overridden by the RuleOfFunny (or the [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01093.htm French ninjas]] would never work(or maybe the French ninjas were [[BeyondTheImpossible just that good]])).

--> ''"This'' ([[NoseTapping gestures at nose]]) ''is an old friend of mine. It tells me something smells."''\\
'''Kerim Bey, ''FromRussiaWithLove'''''

** This is similarly shown in DarkestPowers, Armstrong's YA trilogy. Werewolves have enhanced senses in general, but those senses aren't very strong until they Change into wolf form for the first time (usually around eighteen). [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Derek]], [[YouShouldKnowThisAlready a sixteen-year-old werewolf]], has an incredibly enhanced sense of smell even though he hasn't actually begun to Change into wolf form yet. In a small house that is ''completely'' and consistently overlaid by the scents of about eight different people, he is still capable of pinning down the scent of the person he wants to find, determining the most recent trail despite her having just walked ''all through the house'', and track her down into the basement and into a cellar where she was locked inside and physically incapable of doing ''anything'' to make anyone aware of her location. Of course, considering she has no idea that he's anything other than human, this causes some awkwardness when he has to explain how he managed to find her.

--> ''"This'' (gestures at nose) ''is an old friend of mine. It tells me something smells."''\\

May be a form of CharlesAtlasSuperpower. Often used to handwave the ScarilyCompetentTracker. If food is involved, see FollowYourNose.

* 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 [[AlienBlod blood color]], long before it was even revealed to the audience.

* 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.

* Florence of ''{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00569.htm]] [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1600/fv01600.htm]]. May be arbitrarily overridden by the RuleOfFunny (or the [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1100/fv01093.htm French ninjas]] would never work).

* In YuGiOh, 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.

* 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.

-->Wait, I can smell a cake...frosting says "Farewell...and...''*gasps*'' BEST WISHES!"

* [[SubvertedTrope Subversion]]: A few episodes of ''TheAlvinShow'' (predecessor to ''AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') feature "Sam Valiant, Private Nose." He thinks his enormous schnoz solves mysteries, but [[DefectiveDetective he's always way off]].