Phantosmia, also known as an olfactory hallucination or "phantom smells," is when you smell odors that are not there. The perceived odors may be constant or come and go. The most common include ...

OLFACTORY HALLUCINATION These types of hallucinations involve smelling an odor that does not exist, and, according to Counselors Soapbox, is one of the most rare types of hallucinations.

People who experience phantosmia – olfactory hallucinations – can be plagued with odours of faeces, smoke or chemicals, with some even resorting to surgery Monday 08 October 2018 15:35 BST ...

Visual hallucinations have been noted in about 72 percent of schizophrenia sufferers, while tactile, gustatory (taste), and olfactory are very rare in psychogenic psychosis (Ohayon, 2010).

Hallucinations are a feature of psychosis, and "psychosis is a symptom, but it doesn't tell you what the illness is. It's like a fever," Moe says, which can arise from any number of causes.

This is called phantosmia — olfactory hallucinations — and it can make your life a living Hell. Most people, if asked which sense they would most be willing to jettison, would pick their sense ...

Hallucinations recounts some more complex, and sometimes risky, experiments. Much of the book is drawn from meticulous case histories of patients Sacks has kept over the years.

In his latest book Hallucinations, neurologist Oliver Sacks collects stories of individuals who can see, hear and smell things that aren't really there--such as strange voices, or collages of ...