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Analog Devices built a machine that used a new type of chemical sensor developed in-house to capture olfactory data from the grape juice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The unusual diversity found in their olfactory genes could also help explain a behavioral mystery.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Pigeons "have an extremely sophisticated olfactory system, so that they can smell grass seed when it's being sown," said Davis.

From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026

When I hear the word potluck, I am transported, with a kind of olfactory immediacy, to the basement of my grandmother’s church.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026

With that olfactory observation, that specific little detail, the Terror unspooled.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

“Thank God my moustache filters out some of the stench. My olfactories are already beginning to send out distress signals.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Little is now left of the original building with the exception of the ancient kitchens, and these, with their half-dozen great ventilating shafts, give one the impression that those doughty old warriors had sensitive olfactories.

From In Château Land by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton

No better sign can you have than this of a fellow reckless of decency and behaviour: a gentleman smokes, if he smokes at all, where he offends not the olfactories of the passers-by.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 by Various

So presently savory odors began to arise in the vicinity, that, when wafted to the olfactories of the three boys coming wearily back over their morning trail would be sure to hasten their footsteps.

From Boy Scouts: Tenderfoot Squad or, Camping at Raccoon Lodge by Alan Douglas

To his olfactories it is the perfume of Araby.

From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Mayne Reid