sensory perception of smell

id: GO:0007608
name: sensory perception of smell
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: 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.

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GO:0007606sensory perception of chemical stimulus