By now most of us know some people have a genetic variant that makes cilantro taste like soap to them. Can we also acknowledge some people have a variant that makes roses smell like dirty water?
I never understood people’s obsession with roses as this romantic flower when I was younger because they smell kinda nasty to me. Not nausea inducing but definitely not nice either. It was only later in life I met other people who experienced the same thing and I eventually learned that the sense of smell is one of the most individual experiences of all the senses. The only way I know what roses smell like to other people is thanks to rose scented perfumes and I wish rose gardens smelled like that to me.




















