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Author Message   Darren Say Grrrrrrrr Citizen Username: Darrensager Post Number: 370 Registered: 11-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 12:53 pm:        I have to admit that I love the spring. The air is nice and fresh, with different flowers producing pleasant scents. And then there is one that drives me up a wall. I'm not going to say what I think it smells like but hopefully someone else knows what I'm talking about without me having to say it. If someone else wants to comment I'll chime in. What is making this STINK??!!!   BGS Supporter Username: Bgs Post Number: 921 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 1:11 pm:        It could be the hyacinths...they drive Mr. BGS crazy too and I must have them on the dining room table for Easter decorations...they go right outside after the last guest leaves...   ril Citizen Username: Ril Post Number: 520 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 1:35 pm:        perhaps it's mulch?   greenetree Supporter Username: Greenetree Post Number: 7207 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 1:47 pm:        My guess is compost. Although, I am highly allergic to hyacinths and they drive me batty, too.   Alleygater Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 1668 Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 1:49 pm:        Both compost/fertilizer/mulch all smell well you don't want to say it, but...like poop. The Hyacinths that are in the house sort of have a fermented fruit or rotten /off smell to me and go figure some other people on MOL. TS loves the smell though.   Virtual It Girl Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 4269 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 1:56 pm:        I also HATE the smell of hyacinths. It reminds me of bad Glade air freshener. Ick.   kmk Supporter Username: Kmk Post Number: 1160 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 2:13 pm:        I find that the rotting leaves that were matted down from the snow are now "mulching" and sometimes it smells like tobacco and sometimes like gasoline. But the AIR smells so good!   dave23 Citizen Username: Dave23 Post Number: 1644 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 2:16 pm:        I think it's too early for crushed gingko.   Buzzsaw Citizen Username: Buzzsaw Post Number: 4432 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 2:20 pm:        I will take any spring time smell over the smell of NYC in the summer.   mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 6018 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 2:24 pm:        I will take the smell of NYC in the summer over the never ending traffic on the Garden State Prickway anyday. Dave, I said prickway.   TK South Orange Citizen Username: Tk_south_orange Post Number: 358 Registered: 5-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 2:53 pm:        What about those Pretty trees at seton hall with the white blossoms - THAT SMELL LIKE FISH! YUCK!   BLOWFLY Citizen Username: Howardt Post Number: 1746 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 2:55 pm:        Hey, my favorite spring smell is grinding fresh horseradish root for Passover. This stuff could be weaponized and bring down any insurgency.   tulip Citizen Username: Braveheart Post Number: 3400 Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 2:58 pm:        Great on gefilte fish and Matzoh. Yum. That, plus some scallions...pure spring.   Alleygater Citizen Username: Alleygater Post Number: 1681 Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 3:44 pm:        OK, who is eating gefilte fish? Nasty!!!   Darren Say Grrrrrrrr Citizen Username: Darrensager Post Number: 371 Registered: 11-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 4:12 pm:        I don't know if its a hyacinth. Do they grow out in the wild? I've come across the smell just walking to the train station. Suddendly its like you're overcome by a wall of this really NASTY STANK! I know its not mulch. Mulch can smell like Sh*t, and what I think this stuff smells like doesn't come out of that side to narrow it down. Do I dare say what I think it smells like? I don't think anyone has picked up on it yet.   Ms. Cooper Citizen Username: Ms_cooper Post Number: 67 Registered: 4-2005 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 4:22 pm:        Say it...   growler Citizen Username: Growler Post Number: 932 Registered: 11-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 4:24 pm:        I know what it is you speak of. Now how to say it in a PC sort of way....   Joanne G Citizen Username: Joanne Post Number: 34 Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 4:52 pm:        Stinky plant might also be jonquils, which hould be pushing up in your area by now. I think it's too early for apple blossom, and suspect you don't have too many apple trees there. Or possibly lily of the valley - massed plantings reek where one or two might smell sweet and intriguing. There's a famous book about the life of an Italian famous 'nose' who's a rogue in the perfume industry...LL, what's the man's name?? I'm sure I e-mailed you about 3 years ago when I read his book! Anyway, he claims athat all the best perfumes have a note of sewers or 'unwashed bottoms', because that sharpens the nice aromatic notes.   aquaman Supporter Username: Aquaman Post Number: 843 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 6:27 pm:        Darren, The odor is like bad kitty. There. I said it.   SoOrLady Citizen Username: Soorlady Post Number: 3235 Registered: 9-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 6:38 pm:        Darren - two spring-like odiforous trees come to mind. One is the flowing pear tree the other is the chestnut tree both smell like.... shall we say, "marked territory"?   Darren Say Grrrrrrrr Citizen Username: Darrensager Post Number: 372 Registered: 11-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 6:52 pm:        Hmmm, How to say this. Bad kitty? I never had a cat so can't confirm that. Well, marked territory huh? You're in the right ballpark if your not marking with pee and its not number two. Now does anyone know what I'm talking about that stinks? I can't say it in a way that's not offensive or some sexual slang.   aquaman Supporter Username: Aquaman Post Number: 844 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 7:42 pm:        Darren, Another word for "kitty" 3 hints: 1. Same # of letters, vowels and non-vowels as "kitty" 2. Does not begin with a vowel. 3. Sexual slang.   jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 476 Registered: 1-2006 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 7:47 pm:        Pussy?   kmk Supporter Username: Kmk Post Number: 1162 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:15 pm:        Joanne, I remember that book...or something like it, that started with a "gutter snipe" born in a fish market in pre-Victorian London I thought..was it called Perfume?   aquaman Supporter Username: Aquaman Post Number: 845 Registered: 8-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 8:22 pm:        Perfume by Patrick Susskind (sp?) Jersey Boy - Yes.   Joanne G Citizen Username: Joanne Post Number: 37 Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 9:16 pm:        Perfume is a novel (from memory; didn't think Susskind was the author fo the book I have in minda ltho I've read Perfume too), this is a biography. The man in question teaches in the UK (or did at the time of writing the book) and claims to have worked out a different way of classifying scents. He's put down by the big 'noses' of industry because he's an outsider, and claims the biology of scent works differently to the way it's usually taught. He's quite young, in his 30s I think and is definitely still alive. Got into industrial scents via physics? chemistry? Oh, what IS his name??? Great book, interesting theory ... apparently he can distinguish more kinds of smell than anyone else on earth...   Joanne G Citizen Username: Joanne Post Number: 38 Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 9:19 pm:        Got clever and googled..."The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession and the Last Mystery of the Senses" about Luca Turin, a biochemist. great book!!! who would have thunk perfume could be cut-throat???   Darren Say Grrrrrrrr Citizen Username: Darrensager Post Number: 373 Registered: 11-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 9:33 pm:        Nope Jersey boy, not the female but the male. Ok, the Stank that I'm speaking of, not knowing from what plant or tree it comes from has been described as coming from a "Jizzweed" or a "Cumtree" by some of my friends growing up. Sorry, I'm really not trying to offend anyone and I would really like to know what is creating this retching stink.   SoOrLady Citizen Username: Soorlady Post Number: 3237 Registered: 9-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 9:35 pm:        refer to my previous post... either tree is as you describe   Virtual It Girl Citizen Username: Shh Post Number: 4272 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 9:53 pm:        This is a funny thread.   Lucy Supporter Username: Lucy Post Number: 3415 Registered: 5-2005 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 9:59 pm:        The smell of lilacs   jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 480 Registered: 1-2006 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:12 pm:        Oohhh, that's "steamed broccoli and onions." (Try it in the microwave.) It smells like either semen or scrotal sweat. I told Mrs. J.B. about the "bad kitty" smell and she said she's smelled it today. However, I smelled "steamed broccoli and onions" today too. Hey, IT"S SPRING!!! What do you expect. J.B.   bets Supporter Username: Bets Post Number: 22932 Registered: 6-2001 Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:49 pm:        I am intoxicated by the smell of lilacs! I wish I could have one (or ten!) here at home. Please forgive me if you glance out your window and see an old lady with her nose buried in your lilac blossoms! It's only me enjoying that rare and short-lived seasonal aromatic treat.   kmk Supporter Username: Kmk Post Number: 1163 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 8:54 am:        Berke Breathed was the cartooninst for the daily school newspaper at UT Austin when I was there. This time of year all of his cartoons were sex related! The running lines always would make fun of the seeming lack of mental capabilities of males in the springtime...They were hilarious. I will if I can find one to post, something like "Gee it's springtime and all the trees smell like scrot*m sweat!" (I got red dots for the "s" word!)   BLOWFLY Citizen Username: Howardt Post Number: 1751 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:40 am:        Well, haven't seen the word "scrot*m" used so much in as long as I can remember...   mem Citizen Username: Mem Post Number: 6020 Registered: 5-2001 Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:52 am:        Scrootum.   BLOWFLY Citizen Username: Howardt Post Number: 1752 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 9:56 am:        Scrootum? Damn near killed 'em!   jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 483 Registered: 1-2006 Posted on Wednesday, April 12, 2006 - 2:03 pm:        I got "scrotal" by without dots. J.B.   Jay Citizen Username: Jaymon Post Number: 1117 Registered: 10-2004 Posted on Thursday, April 13, 2006 - 8:00 am:        You people are all CRAZY ! All I know is that what ever 'smell' is in the air, I'm having a hellish allergy week. This guy gets into an elevator with an attractive business woman. They both push their respective floors, when the woman turns to the man and asks: "Excuse me, can I smell your BALLS?" Guy says, "You most certainly may not!!" To which the woman replies, "Oh, then it must be your feet" Thanks for playing, have a nice day   Darren Say Grrrrrrrr Citizen Username: Darrensager Post Number: 376 Registered: 11-2001 Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 4:27 pm:        Well I was walking back from the post offfice today (one person on duty) and BAM, I get hit with the stinky smell right by the train station. So I did some sniffing around (forgive the pun) to see if I can find out where its coming from. I think the stink is coming from a bush which is right next to the sidewalk if you're heading down Dunnell on the left towards the police station. The bush that I believe is causing the odor is immediately to your left if you leave the small parking lot. I may be wrong. The bush has tiny yellow flowers which look like bells in tiny clusters. The leaves of the bush had sharp needles all around the edges. Anyone know what this is?   jersey Boy Citizen Username: Jersey_boy Post Number: 507 Registered: 1-2006 Posted on Monday, April 17, 2006 - 10:11 pm:        Genus: Scrotalis. Species: Stinkius. Happy Spring! J.B.   Tom Reingold Supporter Username: Noglider Post Number: 13731 Registered: 1-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 12:33 pm:        Forsythia? You're smelling the smell of fertility! Enjoy it! Though I didn't notice that forsythia has a pungent smell. Different noses have different sensitivities.   LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1524 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 - 2:18 pm:        Darren, I attempted to investigate said smell on my walk back from the station to my car last night. I kept sniffing and didn't smell anything. I also couldn't remember where you said the flowers were, so I just sniffed and sniffed for a good 2-3 minutes while walking. I'm quite certain I looked like an idiot and I still don't know which plant you're referring too. Now that I've re-read your post, I think I know where it is. I'll check again.   LilLB Citizen Username: Lillb Post Number: 1531 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 8:32 am:        This is a terrible picture, but this is the plant you're talking about. It does smell....   Darren Say Grrrrrrrr Citizen Username: Darrensager Post Number: 378 Registered: 11-2001 Posted on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 - 9:25 am:        THAT'S IT!!!! That is the stinky bush!