Scent
Blee811@aol.com (Tue, 20 May 2008 18:42:46 PDT)

In a message dated 5/20/2008 8:39:27 PM Eastern Standard Time,
totototo@telus.net writes:
Given the well-known genetic component in regard to taste, I have no
doubt that similar effects exist vis a vis scent.

Paperwhites: a pleasant scent but only when very, very faint. One
blossom in the furthrest reaches of the house is adequate.

My observations over the years of displaying daffodils to the public and
sticking them under people's noses to sniff is that women seem to find the scent
of Paperwhites more objectionable than men do.

I have also often forced a bloom of the daffodil 'Fragrant Rose' (it does
indeed have a slight rose fragrance) under unsuspecting noses and most men can
detect the fragrance, but only about half the women.

Linda Wallpe has told me more than once that although this is indeed a
gender difference, it is not based on the ability to detect the fragrance or not,
but on the unwillingness of men to admit that they cannot smell it!
Bill Lee

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