Can you smell ants?

I ate a lovely lemon flavoured ant when on holiday on one of the Queensland islands, Magnetic island. I had to brace myself because the idea of eating them was nasty but they really did taste nice. They did have a slight lemony smell.

It's a genetic thing, like when people say parsley tastes bitter...
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Australian Green Ant Gin has real ants in it and they smell and taste of lime

I've never smelt an Ant but I have smelt freesias which are my favourite fragrance in a flower. Had them in my wedding bouquet (Freesias, not Ants!)

I never knew ants had a smell, never had that much to do with them - you learn something new every day! I can smell freesias, but can't smell orchids (apparently most people can't). I learned that from a talk at the garden centre from an orchid expert - another school day!

Personally, I have never smelled ants, but I attribute this to never having had them in my house, only seen them outside.

Mice I have smelled and on doing so taken the matter up with the nearest cat and left it to deal with the matter, unless I could clearly see where the wretched beasties had got in to the house, in which case I block up the mousehole myself. (Not a service housecats offer, after all).

Freesias and every other flower I can smell quite clearly, but then of course how would I know if there was a smell I could not smell?

I am not away of having been asked, "Can't you smell this?"

While we are on the subject, quite often about an hour before dinner-time, I smell cooking. This is clearly imagination, as we live in a house, and the neighbours are just too far away for it to be their cooking I smell.

Do any of you smell things that aren't there?

Nannan2

Elegran- i also have no enthusiasm for household tasks ever 😂...but sadly still have to do them.😞

What a pity we can't swap. I am always full of enthusiasim but outdoors is another matter entirely.

I have three large, bristly hedges that need cutting if anyone can work out a way to swap housework for gardening online!

I have an incredible sense of smell, DP calls me super nose🤣
Only see ants rarely didn’t notice a scent to them.
We have a guest room which now and then smells of cigarettes and old clothes. We don’t smoke, have lived here a while and it’s been decorated twice.it’s an old house but is still a bit weird.You can go into that room 10mins later and the smell has gone.

For the last few months I’ve had no enthusiasm for any work in the house whatsoever which isn’t like me at all.

As I have very little sense of smell or taste, I couldn't smell them anyway.

Asparagus might be the most common reason for stinky pee. The harmless odor is caused by a breakdown of asparagusic acid. Your genes affect whether you can smell these sulfur byproducts. If you can't, that's called asparagus anosmia.

Had to google this so I thought I would share

That’s spooky *Oreo

I have come across asparagus pee & can smell freesias & roses but have never smelt ants. I smelt a rat in the garden shed but it was a while before we eventually spotted him.

Occasionally I smell parsnips in the kitchen even when I’m not cooking with them

Granfromafar
Never put my nose near enough to ants to smell them, but recently have found that I can hardly ever smell roses, which is a great shame. ''

My s-i-l very recently had hearing aids fitted and found to his surprise and pleasure that he can now smell roses again and has a better sense of taste
I read there is some evidence for the interlinking of the senses through the brain

A ghost, Oreo? There are many things we can’t see but just sense, aren’t there?