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'''Olfax''' was the general term for any of a number of species who sensed their world or communicated primarily through scent.<ref name="Cantina Communications">''[[Cantina Communications]]''</ref> [[Weequay/Legends|Weequays]]<ref name="GG12">''[[Galaxy Guide 12: Aliens — Enemies and Allies]]''</ref> and [[Sljee (species)|Sljee]]<ref name="Alien Encounters">''[[Alien Encounters]]''</ref> were among [[The galaxy/Legends|the galaxy's]] [[Sentience/Legends|sentient]] olfaxes.<ref>The term "olfax" is only specifically used, however, in the vignette ''Cantina Communications''.</ref> Many such species lived on planets with very little light, whether because they were far from their sun or because they were permanently covered by clouds.<ref name="Cantina Communications" />

One species of olfaxes which evolved on one of these dark planets had half of their brain volume devoted to their sense of smell. Though they had poor eyesight, their sense of smell had abilities which paralleled [[Human/Legends|Human]] three-dimensional color vision. These olfaxes could smell out the position of a person in a room, making them difficult to surprise and impossible to hide from. They could smell a person's emotional state, and tell if they were being lied to. They also communicated with one another using a sophisticated smell-based language. Finally, they could even smell certain forms of radiation by smelling the ionization and [[Ozone/Legends|ozone]] produced. They were not very successful as [[Spacer/Legends|spacers]], however, as their chemical-based computers were slower than the galactic standard, and it was impossible to smell anything in vacuum. A group of these olfaxes were in the [[Chalmun's Spaceport Cantina/Legends|Mos Eisley Cantina]] when [[Luke Skywalker/Legends|Luke Skywalker]] and [[Obi-Wan Kenobi/Legends|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] entered to find passage to [[Alderaan/Legends|Alderaan]], but their specific species is unknown.<ref name="Cantina Communications" />

==Appearances==
*''[[Cantina Communications]]'' {{Mo}}

==Sources==
*''[[Star Wars Official Poster Monthly 16]]''
*''[[The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia]]''

==Notes and references==
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