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People who lack olfactory bulbs shouldn’t be able to smell. But some women can

The structures are the parts of the brain known to receive sensations of smell from the nose

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Some people can smell even though they appear to lack certain structures in the brain thought to be crucial to processing olfactory information, a study finds.

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By Sofie Bates

Some people may be able to smell even without key structures that relay odor information from the nose to the brain.