cyanide smell

[aenea]

why can some people smell cyanide, and some people not?

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JBW

[BobT]

Raymond Chandler in "The Big Sleep" says that cyanide smells like "bitter almonds."

I have no idea what bitter almonds smell like, so I guess I'm an easy target for poisioning.

[Omniscient]

Some people can smell it, the others are dead. Thats lifes breaks.

I thought it was arsenic that smelled like bitter almonds. Or was that old lace?

No, it's Old Spice that smells like toxic waste, and I wish you kids would quit givin' it to me every year!