The faculty that enables us to distinguish scents.

synonyms: olfactory modality, sense of smell, smell.

Roget 398: odor, smell, odorament^†, scent, effluvium; emanation, exhalation; fume, essence, trail, nidor^†, redolence.    sense of smell; scent; act of smelling etc. v.; olfaction, olfactories^†.    [pleasant odor] fragrance etc. 400.    odorant.    [animal with acute sense of smell] bloodhound, hound.    [smell detected by a hound] spoor.    ... show more

Dutch: neus, reuk, reukzin
Polish: powonienie, węch