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* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'': Dr. Mid-Nite II has an enhanced sense of smell. In ''ComicBook/JSAClassified'' when a villain took the goggles which allow him to use infrared vision he was able to use his sense of smell to detect a flamable gas in the room that the two villains couldn't detect.

** In ''ComicBook/InjusticeGodsAmongUs he can track Harley Quinn by her scent, and he even can smell "crazyness".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Rémy has an excellent sense of smell, and it's useful for both cooking and sniffing out poison.

* The aptly titled ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "The Nose" features a witness with hyperosmia, a real life condition causing a hyper-sensitive sense of smell. She could smell Beckett's pheromones when interacting with Castle and identify an oil painting as a forgery through a steel briefcase, yet somehow misidentified freon (used in air conditioners) as nail polish remover.

* When Hawkeye gave up drinking in an episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', he seemed to develop this ability to the point that he became utterly insufferable during chowtime. Oddly, Klinger, whose nose is so big the Army gave it its own serial number, never seemed to use it for this purpose.
** When Hawkeye temporarily lost his sight, Burns assumed he would have stayed out of the OR. Hawkeye comes in anyway and uses his sense of smell to determine that a patient had his large intestine pierced by shrapnel before B.J. had noticed.

* This is how IntrepidReporter Luka is able to find the titular witch of the ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' series despite the fact she's running around Purgatorio (another realm parallel to the human world in which she is completely invisible) by picking out her particular perfume that still lingers in the air after her. It also becomes a minor plot point that whenever he smells her perfume he also smells a hint of rosemary ... the rosemary being a demon repellent that is actually coming from the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent evil angels]] that are always trying to kill Bayonetta.

* In ''VideoGame/Persona4'' Teddie literally "smells" the presence of a human trapped in the TV World. He even said the titular phrase and it was hilarious!

** There are dubious reports that certain humans can smell cancer in other humans, too.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'' has David Hodges' super sense of smell. In "In Vino Vertas" he leans into a wine barrel that had held a corpse for a few days and deeply inhales, grossing out a co-worker. He explains that he can detect the source of the wine from the various ingredients he detects...over the smell of decomp. In another episode, Catherine has him get down on the floor of a victim's bedroom and smell the carpet for evidence.

* In ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' [[ChildHater Agatha Trunchbull]] displays the ability to track people by smell, [[SpottingTheThread investigating and then sniffing the askew lid of a chocolate box]] before scenting the air and detecting that Matilda and Miss Honey are still present.

* In ''Series/TheTenthKingdom'', 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.

* In the ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' x ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' crossover, ''[[Fanfic/UnwelcomeStormsHunter Hunter]]'', Sophia manages to smell a number of scents off of Taylor... including one that shouldn't exist.

* ''Farce Contact'', a ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' fanfic by Odon. T'Pol's dislike over how humans smell is due to its similarity to the scent a rutting Vulcan male emits every seven years. It can be smelt for vast distances by the sensitive nose of a female Vulcan, and is therefore known as the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun pong farr]]''.

** As does Catspaw, a were-giant purple cat in the original Hellions.

** The Indominus rex got some abilities that can turn her practically invisible and undetectable for humans and technology. But the Velociraptor pack can track her in the jungle, simply tracking her scent and trails.

* Krypto the Super-Dog have a keen sense of smell, being a dog. He had saved the day tracking Poison Ivy's scent, among other times.

* ''Fanfic/ThatWeirdFeeling'': In this [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36879685/chapters/92009746 Fanfic]] based on the classic Universal Monsters, and specially focused on Dracula's Daughter Marya Zaleska and The Bride of Frankenstein as protagonists, Countess Marya Zaleska have a great sense of smell, by being a vampire. She can detect individual scents from anything, as she smelled The Bride of Frankenstein's scent which is described as sweet, musky, and healthy, but with a bit of death and eléctricas burns. Also, Marya can detect the scents from foods as bread and tell if they are able to eat (for mortals).

* ''Fanfic/ThatWeirdFeeling'': In this [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36879685/chapters/92009746 Fanfic]] based on the classic Universal Monsters, and specially focused on Dracula's Daughter Marya Zaleska and The Bride of Frankenstein, Countess Marya Zaleska have a great sense of smell, by being a vampire. She can detect individual scents from anything, as she smelled The Bride of Frankenstein's scent which is described as sweet, musky, and healthy, but with a bit of death. Also, Marya can detect the scents from foods as bread.

* ''Fanfic/ThatWeirdFeeling'': In this [[ https://archiveofourown.org/works/36879685/chapters/92009746 Fanfic]] based on the classic Universal Monsters, and specially focused on Dracula's Daughter Marya Zaleska and The Bride of Frankenstein, Countess Marya Zaleska have a great sense of smell, by being a vampire. She can detect individual scents from anything, as she smelled The Bride of Frankenstein's scent which is described as sweet, musky, and healthy, but with a bit of death. Also, Marya can detect the scents from foods as bread.

* ''Fanfic/ThatWeirdFeeling'': In this [[ https://archiveofourown.org/works/36879685/chapters/92009746 fanfic]] based on the classic Universal Monsters, and specially focused on Dracula's Daughter Marya Zaleska and The Bride of Frankenstein, Countess Marya Zaleska have a great sense of smell, by being a vampire. She can detect individual scents from anything, as she smelled The Bride of Frankenstein's scent which is described as sweet, musky, and healthy, but with a bit of death. Also, Marya can detect the scents from foods as bread.

* ''Fanfic/ThatWeirdFeeling'': Based on the classic Universal Monsters, and specially focused on Dracula's Daughter Marya Zaleska and The Bride of Frankenstein, Countess Marya Zaleska have a great sense of smell, by being a vampire. She can detect individual scents from anything, as she smelled The Bride of Frankenstein's scent which is described as sweet, musky, and healthy, but with a bit of death. Also, Marya can detect the scents from foods as bread.

* Son Goku from ''Manga/DragonBall'' has a strong sense of smell that allowed him to find a rock thrown off of a cliff by Kame-Sennin ("Master Roshi") and know Bulma is approaching from a great distances. It also cause poor Goku to collapse on the floor when he met [[ThePigPen Bacterian]], since the stench was so horrible that Goku's very sensitive nose couldn't stand it.

* [[Fanfic/CodeHalfDemon Just like in the]] [[Manga/InuYasha manga]], Inuyasha's nose is used for tracking. He track's Odd's scent at one point, which was mainly Odd's ''feet''... The authoress hit two or three birds with one stone there. Inuyasha was surprised that the stench of Odd's smelly feet didn't knock him out considering those feet knock out almost everyone, and said everyone were all ''HUMAN''.