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I recently put a strawberries and cream mint plant into my garden, and it's doing well, but noticed that it doesn't taste much like strawberries and cream. Why is that?

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    This remember me discussion with some botanists: What it the smell of this herb? You get 20 different answers (really very different answers). We are not so good on describing tastes, and it a taste is not 100% like what we know, we are lost. [Remember every taste is a bouquet of flavors]. – Giacomo Catenazzi Jun 04 '19 at 07:58
  • @GiacomoCatenazzi it is not just the difficulty in describing things, but also there is a wide range in our abilities to detect scent (which gives us the majority of what we call flavour) - _Platanus_ sp. smell of honey to me but my mother can't smell them. Responses differ highly too flowers of _Jasminum_ sp. smell highly faecal to me but other people love them. – George of all trades Jun 06 '19 at 12:09

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