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Smell may refer to:
  • Olfaction
    Olfaction
    Olfaction is the sense of smell. This sense is mediated by specialized sensory cells of the nasal cavity of vertebrates, and, by analogy, sensory cells of the antennae of invertebrates...

    , sense of smell, the ability of humans and other animals to perceive odors
  • Odor
    Odor
    An odor or odour is caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds, generally at a very low concentration, that humans or other animals perceive by the sense of olfaction. Odors are also commonly called scents, which can refer to both pleasant and unpleasant odors...

    , the percept resultant from the sense of smell. The environmental stimulus which gives rise to a 'smell' which is made up of numerous monomolecular odorants
  • In programming, a code smell
    Code smell
    In computer programming, code smell is any symptom in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem.Often the deeper problem hinted by a code smell can be uncovered when the code is subjected to a short feedback cycle where it is refactored in small, controlled steps, and...

     is a symptom in the source code of a program that something is wrong
  • Smell is like taste and is a chemical sense detected by sensory cells called chemoreceptors.