Can you smell Violets?
I was showing off my first Sweet Violets today and one of my victims couldn't smell them - generally the scent blows
your socks off. I wonder how common this is. I know certain flavours and scents are undetectable by some people but the Violet one is new to me. Rod |
Can you smell Violets?
Rod wrote:
I was showing off my first Sweet Violets today and one of my victims couldn't smell them - generally the scent blows your socks off. I wonder how common this is. I know certain flavours and scents are undetectable by some people but the Violet one is new to me. Rod The wild sweet violet, viola odorata, has a 'scent numbing' component which dampens the smelling sense so that it seems that the scent has quickly died. This was used in them thar olden days when the violets were spread on the floor of churches, etc. and when crushed, their odorific properties rendered the crusher oblivious to all the the other smells that might have been around. -- ned |
Can you smell Violets?
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from "Rod" contains these words: I was showing off my first Sweet Violets today and one of my victims couldn't smell them - generally the scent blows your socks off. I wonder how common this is. I know certain flavours and scents are undetectable by some people but the Violet one is new to me. I wonder if that's why some, like me, think violets have lost their old scent? Oh dear :-( I definitely used to be able to smell them. ISTR it was Vera who first mentioned that. Janet |
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