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It smells very nice when it is intact, as soon as you cut it, it smell like
decomposed flesh.  You can buy them in Asian stores.

Cadamom has a pleasant smell, it is used for candies and Indian dishes.

Mara Cosillo-Starr
Resource Center Manager
The Field Museum

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Daniels, Alissa <
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> Hey all.
>
> Here's an earth-shatteringly not-of-great-importance but still interesting
> question:
>
> We were planning out some activities for our Sense of Smell Day next
> month, and one of my coworkers suggested we have durian fruit avaiable. I'm
> not familiar with it, but apparently it smells awful (like pig s**t,
> according to one well known description) but it tastes great. It got me
> wondering about other foods like that (some cheeses come to mind).
>
> If smell contributes something like 75% of the flavor experience when you
> eat something, how can something that smells so awful still manage to be
> tasty? Thoughts?
>
>
> bringing you the Big Questions, as always,
> AD
> aka SLOB (the Smell Lady of Boston--thanks, Jonah!)
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> Alissa Daniels, Science Program Manager
> Boston Children's Museum
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> The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
> discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny..."   --Isaac
> Asimov
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