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Re:Why Your Roses Smell Nice by throwaway462910 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @05:56PM (#36375070)
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.
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Re:Why Your Roses Smell Nice by yen223 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:06PM (#36376944)
Anyone who's done any gardening would find that fertilizer - both natural and otherwise - do not smell pleasant.
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Re:Why Your Roses Smell Nice by yunohn on Sunday June 18, 2023 @04:10AM (#36378240)
Fertile land exists naturally without the manual addition of manure fertiliser.
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Re:Why Your Roses Smell Nice by JoeAltmaier on Sunday June 18, 2023 @08:25AM (#36379610)
...and smells much the same!
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Re:Why Your Roses Smell Nice by melagonster on Sunday June 18, 2023 @07:04AM (#36379096)
our monkey brain this mean fruits later, maybe.
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