# Jack Daniels,  Bananas.  WHy do they smell the same?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 30, 2003, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-daniels-bananas-why-do-they-smell-the-same/185304 "2003-06-30T05:42:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jack-daniels-bananas-why-do-they-smell-the-same/185304/21 "2003-07-02T17:40:11Z")

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I have a _really_ good sense of smell and I have opened a overly ripe banana before and smelled an alcohol smell before. Just thought I would reaffirm this finding but in the reciprocal way… banana -----\> alcohol.

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