Re: still foetid

--- Paul Reid <pkssreid@attbi.com> wrote:
> Barry G. wrote:
> "Well, my grandfather DESPISED gardenias, because he
> worked in a mortuary as a teen and it reminded him
> of
> embalming, death, and corpses. They were used to
> cover
> up the "mortuary" scent. So it's all how you view
> it."
> To which I reply: Don't you get it? The gardenias
> were used to cover up the dead, rotting smell?  Your
> grandfather did a typical transference association
> of the gardenias with the dead smells, but I am sure
> if he had only encountered gardenias (or late in the
> summer, tuberoses)on a warm summer night as he
> walked up my walkway for a home-cooked meal and good
> conversation, he would adore the smell as my summer
> guests do.  

To which *i* reply: Like, duh. That was my point. it
WAS a smell association, but still just because it
smell pretty doesnt mean everyone's going to like the
scent, smell association or not. I should have added,
that it wasn't necessarily the association with the
funeral home that made him dislike it. Mom says he
disliked it because he was constantly surrounded by
the scent. It became cloying to him. I wouldn't be so
presumptuous though. He never liked anything strongly
smelling anyway. 

Also, when you have fetid smelling plants, you put
them in a corner of the yard where they aren't walked
by all the time. 

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