This is just for fun: do you have any memories of making an observation with a distinct smell? Not long ago, I made an observation of a red deadnettle. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41017387 I’d never seen any before, and originally thought it was some kind of mint, so I picked some an…

Working in grasslands, a lot of things seem to have a sweet hay scent, a bit like vanilla, which I presume is usually caused by coumarin or perhaps a derivative. This time of year, I can usually be found nibbling on a stalk of sweet vernal grass (Anthoxanthum odoratum), pretty commonly found in all …

I have several but one in particular was a very smelly and stinky experience. I moved a few years ago from my original home but before I moved there was something really odd in the back yard growing in a mulch pile we had. It was fungus known as a stink horn and boy was it just a weird experience al…

Oh, yeah, those stink horns do not smell nice, Maybe like something rotting? I got really freaked out by a stink horn many years ago. I was just gardening and glanced over to see at what appeared to be a crazy reddish finger poking out of the ground. It had a bit of cap on it that looked like a fing…

40 miles for a stinkhorn? It must have been an unusual species. They’re not rare, at least not in Ontario.

I think stink horns are indeed a bit unusual in California.

One plant that I often find first by odor is Galax. And it’s a bit of a mystery about what part of the plant produces the odor. An insect that I ID by smell is Cicindela punctulata. Smells like juicyfruit gum.

Moths just have a non-descript musty smell. Now if I could smell pheromones…

Brown marmorated stink bugs have ruined cilantro for me personally

Lol. I better not smell those, lol. I love cilantro.

Here are some odor descriptions for mushrooms based on the scientific name. It would not surprise me if some of them occur in other fields. https://www.wvmssalem.org/post/odor-descriptions

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