Monday, August 25, 2008

What does a geranium smell like?

I’ve never had a good sense of smell. The odd time an odor penetrates my awareness, a color immediately springs to mind …i.e. bananas remind me of purple, and purple smells like a banana.
For this reason, I’m mystified when one odor is used to describe another. I mean if you say something smells like a skunk, I certainly get that because I’ve de-skunked my dog a couple of times. But on the whole, I’d have to say that smell is uncharted territory for me; when I was trying to figure how to describe the odor of a geranium, all I could come up with was something visual.

5 comments:

A bird in the hand said...

It's the leaves that have a strong scent -- I would call it lemony.

xox

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Anonymous said...

I've always thought they smell like urine.

Anonymous said...

Old pee is right on. Interestingly, only some smell it this way, it is a genetic variability, and not "learned". My wife perceives this as an intense floral scent. We have otherwise the same perception of smell.

Anonymous said...

My red lored amazon parrot smells like a geranium to me.