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Hi Emay, welcome. I've come to call it Clairolfaction, but it's the same thing. The ancient (East) Indian perspective on this and other "clairs" is that both the
spiritual and
physical sense spheres are direct correlates of one another. I talked about this once briefly in a blog post:
The Yoga of Psychic Ability. I see these as natural, innate traits that many of us are born with, to differing degrees. I am like you, having this "psychic smell" thing going on, but mine doesn't seem to be as pronounced as what you have experienced. It sounds like yours is pretty intense! Here are a few things I have noted about this phenomena:
Smells Perceived Psychically Related to
the Energy of Specific Entities
I've read testimonies where people who claim to have had encounters with non-human, extraterrestrial beings say a strong sulphuric smell fills the room (depending on the race of the being). I have also heard those who believe they are dealing with demons frequently report that they smell something really stinky when demons are around, very similar to human flatulence.
It's pretty commonly known to those familiar with mediumship phenomena that some dead people like to evince themselves to those with mediumship ability via smells, among other things. Favs of the dead seem to be their favorite perfumes and colognes, or cigars and flowers. So, if Uncle Bob wants the medium to know it's him saying hello, and he used to smoke when he was on this side of the veil, then the medium will be overwhelmed by the smell of the same kind of cigar he smoked. Or, say Grandma, who really liked gardening, is popping in for a visit, then the medium will suddenly smell garden flowers, and that will be a striking feature of her reading. And so on.
Here are some related EUTM posts:
http://everythingunderthemoon.net/forum ... 24819.html
http://everythingunderthemoon.net/forum ... 28113.html
Smells Perceived Psychically Related to
Emotional "States of Being," or Personal "Quality"
This is hard to describe. It is more like a "quality," really, the quality of an emotion for instance (
extreme states of emotion, especially) moreso than it is an actual physical smell. I believe these smells come through peoples' "energy signatures," the unique spiritual imprint that I believe we each have. So, these smells don't require the person's physical presence to be detectable. They could even be "smelled" by looking at a picture, say, or through an email or phone call...
The Smell of Happiness
In some old post on this message board (can't remember what thread now), I describe how one day I opened an email from a friend of mine. I was overwhelmed with a (psychic) "smell" of just "
euphoria, completeness, extreme contentment, deep joy, 'I've found what I'm looking for,' mental peace, 'This is better than I could have dreamed,' " etc. I cannot compare it to any smell we would experience with the physical nose. It was a quality, a state of being. Perhaps, "vibrational state" would be a better description, I don't know. Anyway, it definitely had a smell, and it hit my nose very powerfully.
Turns out, my friend had moved out of the dreary state and dreary life that was depressing him for years, fell in love and moved to sunny California to live with his new love. His life totally changed for the better in every domain --spiritually, financially, physically, socially. Now, I did not know
any of these details before I had first opened his email. lol When I did open it, before I could read it this incredible "smell" hit my nose out of the blue. I took some deep whiffs of this and exclaimed, "Whoa! What the heck?" haha, both about the "smell" itself, and about my (surprising to me) ability to smell it.
After I read his message, I understood what I "smelled" --the scent of "happy."
The Smell of Pain
Conversely, I have found that when people are in physical pain, I tend to smell an acrid, vinegary smell coming from them, though it's not a physical smell. For instance, once another friend called me (I think I might have posted this here, too, but I don't know where) and kept saying she was doing great. But, in my psychic senses I knew something was wrong because I smelled this intense acrid, spiky, sharp smell. And I felt physically uncomfortable and fidgety. Weirdest of all, my face was wincing and I had this strong urge to cry. Prior to her call I
was in a pretty upbeat mood.
Some minutes later, she
finally cuts all the nonsensical small talk she had been bombarding me with and she gets around to the nitty gritty. An old problem with her spinal column, the result of a past car accident, had rendered her in extreme pain and bedridden for four excruciating days. She had been crying throughout the ordeal and had anxiety that she might lose her day job (which was very physically demanding and was what aggravated the old injury). "Why didn't she just say so in the beginning?" I remember thinking to myself, because I
knew something was very wrong the milisecond I answered her phonecall...I could "smell" it!
The Smell of Good Values (or a Lack Thereof)
This is also kind of weird, but I could also smell good, ethical values on a person. It smells very nice, but it is very rare to encounter. Likewise, I smell when someone is a charlatan (for instance, a while back it was assumed I was being "rude" to a certain poser on here, but his subsequent performance [antics] on this board bore my initial assessment --yep, I smelled it). Lies have a certain smell to them, as does "fear." Fear has an acrid psychic scent similar to the "pain" smell my friend was reeking through the phone, as described above. But, fear also "tastes" like blood (don't ask me why, or what exactly that means). So posers tend to reek to me because they are always fearful they'll be found out and exposed eventually, and they
always are because both they,
and their lies, stink!
OK, I'm done. Hope I haven't weirded you readers out, too much...again. lol
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I was reading this thread about clairaudience in another forum, and thought I would introduce myself with my experiences with smells; I have recently learned this is called Clairalience. If anyone has had similar experiences like mine, I would be grateful for some feedback. I am also empathic and I hope to be reading and posting in the future.
It's an awesome start to the journey.