Term Name:	sensory perception of smell
Synonyms:	olfaction, scent perception, sense of smell, smell perception
Definition:	The series of events required for an organism to receive an olfactory stimulus, convert it to a molecular signal, and recognize and characterize the signal. Olfaction involves the detection of chemical composition of an organism's ambient medium by chemoreceptors. This is a neurological process.
Ontology:	GO: Biological Process [GO:0007608]    QuickGO    AmiGO