TOW surprise in fragrant bulbs
320083817243-0001@t-online.de (Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:20:50 PDT)

Dear All,

The last blooms of what I think is Ornithogalum suaveolens are about to fade
(Or is it an Albuca? difficult to say) When I found the plants in the wild I
hardly detected any scent same as now in my greenhouse but the friend with whom
I travelled got very excited about what he described as a very poweful scent
like the perfume 'Shalimar'. I have often noticed that some scents cannot be
detected by certain people at all, especially the very powerful similar scents
of Nicotiana sylvestris or Calonyction album. There may be other groups of
volatile chemicals that cause scent that cannot be detected by certain people.
I think it has to do with genetics but does anybody know better or more details
about this?

Spring at last in Germany, Uli