What is Psychic Smelling or Clairolfaction?

Extra-sensory olfactory perceptions are not only associated with supernatural and psychic phenomena, but can carry warnings and other meanings

Clairolfaction, also referred to by the terms clairolfactance, clairosmesis, clear smelling, psychic smelling, psychic scent, or olfactory mediumship, is an intuitive, extra-sensory gift that utilizes the perception of scents, that are not physically present, to receive messages from spirit guides and other spirit entities, verify information with the Unseen, or to gain insight from the past or foresee future events.

I'd like to clarify that the subject of this article does not pertain to phantosmia (commonly known as 'phantom smell'), a medical condition involving olfactory disorder. Instead, my focus here is on exploring the realm of unconventional, peculiar, or bizarre scent experiences reported by certain mediums, psychics, intuitives, shamanic practitioners, and healers (myself included).

As an animist medium, I first began experiencing psychic smelling abilities during my teens. Clairolfactance became the defining psychic skill that nudged me into occultic, shamanic, and witchcraft, ultimately shaping who I am, and my approach to animist spirit work to this day. While I occasionally was able to interpret the scent, which were usually divinatory or otherwise insightful, most of the time, I was unclear why I was experiencing this paranormal phenomenon, and it wasn’t until I was in my early adulthood until I decided to be proactive in learning and further cultivating this skill. 

These were before the days of the internet and search engines, and no library nor metaphysical bookstore seemed to know what I was talking about, as I received many, many blank stares when I asked if they carried any titles on “psychic smelling”, “smelling things that aren’t there”, or “smelling beyond the physical”. This turned out to be a good thing, because I wound up needing to define spirit work, my boundaries around it, and the extra-sensory olfactory perceptions I was perceiving. I had both the blessing and the daunting task of figuring it out on my own (well, along with the spirits who were communicating with me through scent). By increasing my awareness, honing my psychic nose, shedding my habit of dissociation from my body, and developing my own inner scent glossary of psychic scents interpretation, I was able to hone the clairolfaction, bit by bit, with reliability and accuracy.

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