Smelling 'Fragrant Rose'
Blee811@aol.com (Sun, 22 May 2005 21:40:45 PDT)

In a message dated 5/22/2005 11:26:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, DaveK
arn@aol.com writes:

Some people (for whatever reason, it
seems to be males, I've been told) are unable to detect it.

'Fragrant Rose' is also one of my favorite daffodils, Dave, and I made a
male visitor get down and sniff one this evening (blooming now only because I
planted the bulbs in late January). I have stuck this daffodil in front of many
noses at public displays and I have found that most males can detect the
fragrance, but a number of females, maybe 30% or so, cannot.

Our friend Linda Wallpe says that's because men won't admit they can't do
something, while women tell the truth about such things! She thinks both genders
have a similar percentage that cannot detect this fragrance, regardless of
their self-reports.
Bill Lee