Radium wrote:

Butyric acid smells like stinky cheese [including Swiss], smelly feet,
sweaty shirts, dirty socks, neck-sweat, back sweat, filthy scalp and
unwashed hair. So it definitely isn't butyric acid. In fact, since
these foul odors occur after ripening [a process which uses up the
acids]; I doubt that any acid or acidic substance is responsible for
the foul odor of ripe fruits.


IIRC, "stinky cheese [including Swiss], smelly feet, sweaty shirts,
dirty socks, neck-sweat, back sweat, filthy scalp and unwashed hair" is
exactly how you described this alleged smell when you posted your
annoying foolishness in rec.gardens a year or two ago.

Bob