There’s a flower that blooms in the forests of Indonesia that’s infamous for the smell it produces . It’s a rare event that it releases its stench, but when it does, a bouquet of “rotting fish, very smelly socks[...] like a food bin that's overflowing” is released into the air – so says Glasshouse Horticulturist at Kew Gardens, London, Pauline Maciejewska-Daruk . Why am I telling you the notes of this peculiar bloom? Because it’s known as the corpse flower . The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Yes, when we humans die, we emit one last swan song in the form of a distinctive smell of death. You’ve probably heard that phrase “smell of death” before, and with good reason. There does seem to be a common roster of smells th

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