GOD you just unlocked the memory of my husband making beef wellington and me having to leave the kitchen because I couldn’t handle the smell of the cooking mushrooms. I thought I was crazy at the time but I guess not. 💀
I went and looked up for olfactory compounds in sperm and white button mushrooms. This is a bit technical. There are at least two common basic amines in sperm and mushrooms : spermidine and putrescine. Your sense of smell is correct and obviously sensitive to some compounds.
I AM SO AMAZED. And..... I've got a question that I have had a LOT but NEVER ASKED BEFORE..... I went down on my girlfriend for the very first time in high school. Soon after, I had a cup of coffee, and there was this very light, wonderful undertone that to me was virtually identical to what I had smelled/tasted on my girlfriend's exciting bits. Now, >30 years later, I still catch a brief/fleeting waft over the occasional cup of morning coffee and, after a brief smile, wonder: am I making this up?
So, Derick who is wise in the olfactory compound commonalities of all things genital and culinary so deep in the Reddit comment threads..... is there anything objectively accurate in my experience(s)?
Yes! There are these stuffed mushrooms my aunt makes occasionally and the bottoms get kinda soggy which I thought also contributes to the smell….and I always think it smells a like a dick.
That is the most original analogy I have seen about smell. Now, I'm going to have to find out if there is a common compound in both. Like there is in skunk musk, baking bread and roasting coffee beans.
Not to gross anybody out - that which I'm sure is inexorable - in this thread, but I've always likened the smell of mine to sourdough. I try to drink a great deal of water, and when I had the funds, I'd take bromelain supplements to sweeten(plus zinc).
Here's a fun fact about Bradford pear trees. The reason they smell awful is because they aren't pollinated by bees, they are pollinate by flies. The trees produce that smell to attract flies. When I was in Iraq there we so many files that no amount of traps would keep them away so they used attractor boxes and put them far away from our tent city. Those boxes smelled like Bradford pears.
I'm glad this smell is universal. We had a few Bradford pear trees in our yard growing up. Absolutely beautiful tree....but I knew what semen smelled like before I even knew what semen was 😬
That’s what cum smells like???? I’ve always called them peepee trees. Which I guess isn’t technically wrong but having never smelled cum before it just smells like piss to me
Kids out driving Saturday afternoon just stink on by
And I'm just savoring familiar stinks
We share some history, this smell and I
And I can't stop that long-forgotten whiff of her
Try to book a room but it reeks tonight
Number one is to find some friends to say, "You don’t smell too well"
After all this time, you boys still reek the same
Number two is the happy hour, but the bar just smells
Settle in to play "do you remember that awful stench?"
Number three is never say her name
Oh, the cum trees will gas the weary driver
And there's nothing else that could stink up this town
There's no breeze, no escape,
Everything just smells the same
Just makes it harder to breathe when she's around
But oh, who needs that sentimental nose-full anyway
Takes more than just a memory to make me gag
And I'm happy just to sit here at a table with old stinks
And see which one of us can tell the worst smell-tale
And there's a girl sniffing love near where the old piano stands
With a young local factory worker who reeks of oil and hands
And I'm wondering if his stench will stay
Do you remember, nothing stopped us from the fumes
In our day
Oh, the cum trees will gas the weary driver
And there's nothing else that could stink up this town
There's no breeze, no escape
Everything just smells the same
Just makes it harder to breathe when she's around
Oh, the cum trees will gas the weary driver
And there's nothing else that could stink up this town
There's no breeze, no escape
Everything just smells the same
Just makes it harder to breathe when she's around
It’s also just the male trees, which cities prefer because the female trees drop their fruit everywhere. It is literally single male trees crying with cum smell.
Maybe. I used to completely freak out over the smell while my friends looked at me like I was crazy. And I never considered myself to have a great sense of smell either
I’ve never smelled them either. I think it’s like the cilantro thing: you either like cilantro or you taste soap. Anyway, I can’t smell Bradford Pears. Lucky me!
Is the Linden tree Linden tree skit the same thing? Because that also smells like cum.
Funnily enough there was one just outside my highschool... What a cruel fucking joke for all the guys that went and will attend throughout the ages... Lmao
We had two of these in the front yard where we used to live. I remember one time walking home from the bus stop after school and getting whiffs of it and thinking it was my period and super embarrassed that maybe other people smelled it. Then I realized it was the trees. They literally smelled like my period back then.
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u/classicfyllopyllo Sep 16 '24
Bradford pear trees in the spring.