bitter? fenugreek smells like slightly musty maple and was an ingredient in imitation maple flavor before the fake-flavor world went all chemical.

but really, it;s an ingredient in curry, and not a hot-spicy one, and in a very mellow-tasting cleansing tea used in Ploarity therapy. and it makes you smell GOOD; that's why it;s in the nursing mother's tea blends. (A bunch of trafitional remedies for increasing milk flow work by making your milk taste and smell good to your baby.)

but people smell things differntly depending on personal taste, culture, and perhaps genetics...I read some job search book where the guy advised job seekers to give up eating foods with garlic, onion, cilantro, and hot peppers because it made them smell bad!

guess I wouldn;t want to wiork in that office anyway, what do tey eat, Big Macs?

anyway, I think nursing moms smell good anyway, and fenugreek has a good bittersweet fragrance to it.

it also sprouts into seeds.

speaking of hops...now that IS bitter (I don;t really like beer either.) I;ve put it in relaxing tea blends but don;t care for it much. and when the fence on one side of my cottage had hops growing all along it, they looked lovely, but come the late fall rains when the blossoms all fell to the ground and fermented there, the place smelled like a brewery...


I'll take fenugreek, fennel, ginv=germ, and peppermint tea, but then, I eat garlic too, even when nursing.