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I find it extremely difficult to reliably find roses for sale that actually smell like anything at all.
Here’s 206 roses trees varieties ready to order [0]. GF is a lot into flowers and got a lot of stuff from this store, highly recommend them for any plant, great quality and care. Europe only I guess. [0] https://www.promessedefleurs.com/rosiers/rosiers-parfumes.ht...
This is all about chemistry and genetics. But nothing on 'why roses smell nice'. It's really a puzzle. Why on earth should Homo Sapiens consider a rose's smell to be 'nice'? Dogs like roses' smell about the same as shit. They don't give a damn. Further, why are rainbows pretty? Why is a waterfall inspiring? And on and on. You have to have some kind of special model to explain this, I think. Something beyond simple re…
I've seen the argument before that humans find flowers pretty because they indicate fertile land, where there are flowers there will be animals, etc. Impossible to really know, I suppose.
This is all about chemistry and genetics. But nothing on 'why roses smell nice'. It's really a puzzle. Why on earth should Homo Sapiens consider a rose's smell to be 'nice'? Dogs like roses' smell about the same as shit. They don't give a damn. Further, why are rainbows pretty? Why is a waterfall inspiring? And on and on. You have to have some kind of special model to explain this, I think. Something beyond simple re…
If they didn't smell nice we wouldn't have domesticated them and planted them all over.
I find it extremely difficult to reliably find roses for sale that actually smell like anything at all.
This is all about chemistry and genetics. But nothing on 'why roses smell nice'. It's really a puzzle. Why on earth should Homo Sapiens consider a rose's smell to be 'nice'? Dogs like roses' smell about the same as shit. They don't give a damn. Further, why are rainbows pretty? Why is a waterfall inspiring? And on and on. You have to have some kind of special model to explain this, I think. Something beyond simple re…
If one such characteristic is pleasant smell (and why would it not be), then the answer is obvious. By and large, roses smell nice because human bred them to.
Your rose smells nice because it was bred to smell nice by human breeders. All the different varieties of cultivated roses that we have today are the product of hybridizing and selective breeding (“artificial selection”) of twelve or so wild rose species; a process that has continued over hundreds if not thousands of years. While not a hard and fast rule, most plant species with strongly scented flowers usually are w…
Where I live roses grow wild and always have. They smell as good as cultivated roses.
I find it extremely difficult to reliably find roses for sale that actually smell like anything at all.