Forensic odorology is one of the newer forensic disciplines and is part of forensic techniques, but this field is still undergoing development. Odorology "deals with the investigation of odors and the development of methods for securing traces, which it studies using analytical instruments with the aim of identifying persons or things". The main goal is to find out the creator of a certain smell and then its detailed identification, the body odor of a person is most often examined, where the source is, for example, breath or sweat.