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