cheeta never ever ever ever gives me a fish smell. But if I mix it with the jasmine six photo (sorry I can’t keep the names straight sorry, it is in a yellow package) I get a slight but noticable fish scent. Only when they are combined.

Maybe it’s a combination of scents that together being a higher concentration end up resembling trimethylamine or reacting with other scents. Some flowers and scents have that in them. It’s that ‘fishy’ smell that dead fish have. When they’re alive they don’t have it at such a high quantity, but when they’re dead it bacteria break it down and it exacerbates and that’s the fish smell. It’s also ammonia at a stronger level.

That definatly makes sense. I think it might be something about whites and that the other scents help carry the fishiness. I do actualy like it though.

@Juxtaposer mentioned in a thread something about “putrefaction” and the curing process for Indian white snuffs. I don’t know specifically what this means wrt tobacco, but I associate the smell you describe as putrid.

it reminds me of some great but odorific cheeses.

I’ve never gotten that but a couple on the market give me a manure’y smell and I couldn’t use them anymore. I got a much worse smell from Dholakia Black than Dholakia White, go figure.

Dholakia Black makes me keep checking my shoe for dog poo, Dholakia White makes me go wake up the wife.

Nicely said!