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@CadeJohnson In my case it is recirculating the air so it does need to trap both grease and odors.
If you think about it though, coming into a kitchen and saying "it smells good!" is OK; if the odor is bad, maybe lack of carbon filter is not the problem! lolz I have a recirculating fan, but I don't think it does much odor trapping. Odor molecules come in all sorts of forms - some adsorb to carbon and some don't. Although activated carbon has a large capacity considering the size of the particles of carbon, it can't do miracles. Furthermore, I suspect the carbon is encased in trapped oil long before its odor-absorbing capacity is exhausted (though I guess that depends on one's cooking style).
(I posted words to this effect many hours ago, but that post seems to have been lost)