[unfolaReemoma]

Probably not on the top of the list of the most common nor desired clairient senses, but I think I may be (and have always been) clairalient to some degree...

I've always known I have an above-average sense of smell, but come to think of it, I've had many experiences where I could smell something nobody around me could smell. I've always dismissed the idea that maybe nobody was paying attention or something, but the maybe there's something to this. The thought occured to me today that maybe the reason other people can't smell it is because its not a 'physical' smell.

Most of the time its the smell of wood burning, or like a candle or something. Today, however, I was sitting at my desk and this wave of purfume fills my nose from out of nowhere! Trying to figure out where the previous burning smell I had smelt was coming from, I went walking around, but not being able to pinpoint it, I went back to my desk. At that time, there's this lady talking with another teacher standing outside of the office of the school I work at, and lo-and-behold, the same perfume smell! Freaky...

Anyway, thought I'd throw this thread out in the open, and am curious if others have had clairalient experiences as well. Maybe we can think of new and interesting ways to use this ability...

Justin

[viagracheapest]

Hi Justin,

This is definitely not a big skill for me. I think I've only experienced it twice. My husband has a very well-developed sense of smell but I've really never stopped to wonder if it is clairalience when nobody else smells it. Maybe I will now.

I've never really considered a use for it beyond mediumship. I know that it's part of the reportaire that mediums use to determine that someone was say a drinker or a smoker.

I suspect that if someone on the other side were trying to make contact and you had a particularly well-developed sense of smell with a library of memories based on smell, it would be a very good way to get your attention.

[Hammaduersnes]

I'm not sure if I have this ability or not, but I'm one of those who can tell if you've been outside from your 'outside smell' or if you're coming down with a cold from your breath, etc. I'm the one everyone comes to to see if something in the fridge has turned, that type of thing.
As I have mentioned before, the house I grew up in was haunted, and one of the most common manifestations we had was the sudden perfume that occassionally appeared. My mom always freaked at it, I liked it (it smelled like Gardenias) and always welcomed it. I thought it smelled like an angel.
I think in my case it's just a sharp sense of smell, not clairalience.

[Retapleapse]

I have always had a very sensitive sense of smell. For me it was decided that it was a symptom of a health condition I was diagnosed with. While doing research on the disorder, the books I was reading called it "phantom smells". (I have come to realize that in my case it is not the disorder causing the other "symptoms", but that I an am empath.)

That said, I have noticed many times were my sense of smell was trying to allert me that I needed to pay attention to something. For example, I had a boyfriend who's smell burned my nose. No-one else could smell what I was smelling. This happened once before with a boyfriend, so I should have taken the warning, but I didn't... Anyway he ended up stealing $500 from me.

I have learned that my nose always leads me in the right direction, as long as I pay attention.

[viagracheapest]

CF, I can always tell if my kids will need an antibiotic by smelling their skin. I might be part canine!

[unfolaReemoma]

Wow, it seems I may not be the only one! Thanks, all, for the insights.

Mishell: That's rather interesting. From now on, if I smell something burning, I'll have to try to double check my surroundings to see if maybe it's some kind of warning.

[saerensenatljn]

I've had a number of similar episodes where I could smell something distinctly that no one else in the room could detect. Sometimes it's perfume, a candle, food, smoke...etc.

A dozen or so years ago, I was at a meeting at a local theatre. As I was sitting in at the meeting, I suddenly thought I was smelling gas. It was sort of faint, but clearly there nonetheless. Of the dozen or so people that were there, no one else could smell it. Everyone looked at me like I was nuts! A week later, the building had to be evacuated because of a gas leak underground.

Clairalience is rare for me. What I do experience more frequently, however, is clairvoyance. Sometimes it comes in my dreams, and other times, while I'm wide awake. More often than not the dreams or visions are precognitive. Example; I dreamt I was in a line of people in a large room. I looked to my left and saw a woman I knew who I hadn't seen in 25 years talking to two men. 3 or 4 days later I attended a wake of a friend. I had just gotten on line to view the body when I looked to my left and saw a repeat of what I'd just seen a few nights prior.

I also experience clairsentience quite a bit, pretty much on a daily basis.
One of my most underdeveloped senses is clairaudience. I can't even remember the last time I heard something. I think it's all very real and not in our imaginations. They say we use only a very small amount of what are brains are capable of. I think these abilities can definitely be stengthened and developed[/i]

[Kayakeenemeds]

I've had experienced where I could psychically smell what someone else was eating or wearing. For example, I was on the phone with a friend once and I suddenly said "Oh, are you eating chocolate?" and she said "Uh... yeah, my mother just handed me a cookie. Why?" and I laughed and told her I could smell it (which I could). I did NOT hear her eating it (she hadn't actually had a bite yet), nor did I hear her mother. I quite literally smelled a hot chocolate chip cookie.

It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen. I do have a fairly sensitive nose for non-psychic things though (good at recognising perfumes, for example), so maybe that's part of it?

Interesting topic.

[megasprut]

"Clairalience or "Clear Smelling" is the alleged phenomenon where sensitive people can smell the odour of the person who is not on the earth plane. .."
When reading a sitter sometomes a fragrance or odour wafts in which helps to identify the spirit . a particular smell might be associated with a deceased relative ie
cigar smoke
old spice soap
lavender oil
incense
homelessness
alchoholic
pipe
roses
mechanic grease
olive oil
etc

also smels can be helpful to identify negs which tend to smell like
rotting meat
fecal matter
mould
infection
rotten eggs
sulphur

[bettingonosports]

Smell is really interesting!! I'm loving reading the posts here.

The haunted dorm I lived in had a "stale" old smell to it on particularly active nights... one night a group of students met up, a very weird synchronistic thing, four of us meeting with three students who lived in a room we had all lived in that was particularly haunted and all of us showed up at the same time on accident; we had an impromptu seance which was more like a long talking session... one girl would say "Hmm I hear ringing in my right ear" and three others would pipe up "so do we!" ... or a girl would say something like "You know I heard pots banging and clanging very faintly when you guys were talking about cooking, I think this lady liked to cook a lot!"

Amazing experience, but a neat part of it was that very strong scents were floating in and out of the room... cinnamon... sage... pine.... scents that had no discernible origin but that most of us could smell.

I always liked that one scene in the Dean Koontz novel about a man who's being blessed in a voudun ceremony and the spirits make themselves known by their signature scents, such as orange blossoms or cigars.

My boyfriend once made fun of me because he climbed into bed one night and I was bugging him because he smelled "different" somehow. We joked a bit about him messing around cheating on me, but he just wouldn't take me seriously when I kept pestering him about what he had done to alter his routine, where he had been, what he had eaten.... four hours later he was violently ill with food poisoning.

[Kayakeenemeds]

My boyfriend once made fun of me because he climbed into bed one night and I was bugging him because he smelled "different" somehow. We joked a bit about him messing around cheating on me, but he just wouldn't take me seriously when I kept pestering him about what he had done to alter his routine, where he had been, what he had eaten.... four hours later he was violently ill with food poisoning.

Bet he wasn't making fun of you then.

[TeLMgNva]

But that need not necessarily be clairalience - you just could have a very developed normal sense of smell (that one case with your b/f that is).

Sweat is one of the bodies toxin removal systems. A person with a good sense of smell might pick up the odour within the smell.

However, that might be putting things on their head, because you smelled the change before major illness symptoms came about. Just a thought, nothing more.

Oliver

[bettingonosports]

Oh sure, I didn't think there was anything clairailient about it, just thought it was interesting to share along the topic lines.

If you meant "putting things in their head" (not sure if that's what you meant) he's not the type to really respond to any kind of auto suggestion, lol... he just thought I was weird and dismissed me, until he got sick later that morning.

Some women are also supposedly extremely good at detecting by a sense of smell whether another woman is pregnant, practically down to the day of conception, lol. I'm also fascinated by the dogs they are training to try to smell if a person has cancer. Or the amazing dogs who can smell a epileptic seizure before it occurs in enough time to make sure their owner can get to a safe place. Again, no miracles, but I think it's an amazing sense to hone.

[TeLMgNva]

In the animal kingdom, smell can be quite telling. Rat females can smell the quality of the male genes for reproduction purposes.

Just an example.

No, I did not think you meddled with his mind.

Oliver

[bettingonosports]

Just where OTHER things are concerned.



gooooooooo goooo to the store... buy me choccies........

[TeLMgNva]

I can imagine you, massaging your temples, humming, slightly swaying, and someone jumping up from the couch "Alright, alright, I go and buy chocolate. Sheesh!" (Don't forget the trash, don't forget the trash...) "Aaargh!!" (halfway to outside)



Oliver

[Automobill]

"Clairalience or "Clear Smelling" is the alleged phenomenon where sensitive people can smell the odour of the person who is not on the earth plane. .."
When reading a sitter sometomes a fragrance or odour wafts in which helps to identify the spirit . a particular smell might be associated with a deceased relative ie
cigar smoke
old spice soap
lavender oil
incense
homelessness
alchoholic
pipe
roses
mechanic grease
olive oil
etc

also smels can be helpful to identify negs which tend to smell like
rotting meat
fecal matter
mould
infection
rotten eggs
sulphur

All is true, is written. Sometimes I feel the grandfather with the help of feeling of alcohol.

[herbalviagra]

I feel I have always had a keen sense of smell but I started getting strange phantoms smells when I was pregnant with my son 15 months ago. I was skeptical at first b/c pregnany women get a hightened sense of smell. The smells were strong fume smells, like gas or burning and sometimes electrical. I asked my husband deperately, "Can't you smell that?" I would smell it everywhere, morning, noon and night. The smells would come and go, sometimes staying 24 hours a day for a week or more. I found many posts online about the phantom fumes and saw many urging people to stop using scented downey etc. I have cut off buying scented clothes soap and won't even use perfume anymore, for fear I will trigger the smell. The past 6 days a new smell is with me and this time it's perfume. Strong, flowerly, at times, overbearing perfume. Over Easter dinner Sunday I was explaining to my dad that the smell this time wasn't fumes but perfume. He sort of got a funny face on him and called over his girlfriend and asked "What have I been smelling since the day before my birthday" and w/o thinking she said "Strong old lady perfume". Thought that was strange but it wasn't until this morning when I emailed him about some posts I saw on Clairalience that he said he didn't want to mention it but he had known about people who can "smell dead people". He said for two weeks solid after my mom's death that all he could smell was perfume, in the house, car, outside in the horse barn, everywhere.

I would like to think my Mom and/or grandma's were"visiting us" for these past fews weeks to celebrate my Dad's birthday (apr 3) my birthday (apr 9) and Easter (apr 12).