Linnaeus said smells can be alliaceous like garlic, ambrosial like musk, aromatic, foul, fragrant, hircine like goat, and nauseating {primary odor}. Primary odors can be putrid, flowery, fruity, burnt, spicy, resinous or camphor, musk, floral, peppermint, ether, pungent, and putrid. Primary odors can be floral, minty, ethereal like pear, musky, resinous like camphor, foul or sulfurous, and acrid like vinegar. Primary odors can be acidic, burnt, caprylic like goat, and fragrant. Primary odors can be camphorous, fishy, malty, minty, musky, spermous, sweaty, or urinous odors.
Almond oil, honey, cinnamon, orange blossom, and henna {aegyptium} can mix.
Sperm-whale-stomach oil {ambergris, smell} can protect stomach lining.
Steroid molecules {androstenone} smell musky to 25% of people and urinous to 25% of people, and have no smell for 50% of people.
Orange-rind oils {bergamot, smell} can mix.
Violets can make drops {cacous}. Casca preciosa is sassafras.
d-carvone {carvone} is caraway, and l-carvone is spearmint.
Far-northern-beaver abdomen-gland oil {castoreum} marks territory.
Ethiopian-cat near-genitalia-gland honey-like compound {civet, smell} is a sex pheromone.
Violets make compounds {ionone} that can inhibit odors.
Rose, crocus, and violet oils {kyphi} can mix.
A genetic disease causes urine to smell like maple syrup {maple syrup urine}.
East-Asian deer-intestine red jelly {musk, smell} has steroids.
Oranges can make attar {neroli}.
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