Our olfactory ability can vary due to different conditions.
A common psychophysical test of olfactory ability is the triangle test.
"My olfactory abilities are exceptional, as befits my race, if not necessarily my breeding."
The average weight loss among those who had good olfactory abilities was 4.7 pounds a month.
We are capable of visual sensitivity and discrimination at least as impressive as the olfactory abilities of the bloodhound.
Like other Procellariiformes they use this olfactory ability while foraging to locate potential food sources.
Individuals with these diseases also often express diminished olfactory abilities as well as decreased cognitive activity in the hippocampus, areas specific to neurogenesis.
It suggests that vision is more important to them than olfactory ability.
He reflected that this could simply be the result of a numbing of his olfactory abilities after the steady bombardment they had endured.
This does not mean that having any olfactory ability at all is vestigial, for example it may save a person from inhaling toxic fumes.