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Not all rose types smell as nice as others. There are countless types, all bred for specific characteristics over hundreds of years. If one such characteristic
by lovemenot 3y ago
Not all rose types smell as nice as others. There are countless types, all bred for specific characteristics over hundreds of years.
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.
- rcme 3y agoThat may explain why roses smell nice, but many wildflowers smell nice too.
- seszett 3y ago> By and large, roses smell nice because human bred them to. That theory seems unlikely to me since wild roses smell good. I would say that the modern roses that don't smell good have instead lost their smell because they were selected on other criteria.