What Blueberry Smell like

Howdy @Rhizome, I believe strawberries are said to have hundreds of volatile compounds while blueberries have a few dozen. That said, for something to be pungent and smelling strong it doesn’t necessarily need many contributing volatiles, they merely shape it’s impact on our olfactory system. The studies I’ve read suggest wild blueberries provide more of the quintessential blueberry smell compared to the more modern commercially available blueberries. This could be for many reasons including breeding for fruit size at the cost of secondary metabolites or harvesting prematurely for market. Even in strawberries the maximum strawberry scents are said to come from fully red ripe fruits compared to the ones picked earlier. When I smash up some blueberries in my hand I get a range of smells from green and sharp to what I would call the quintessential blueberry smell, albeit quite faint as my selection is of the more modern commercially available berries. I’d imagine wild types to have more concentrated scents of a similar profile. The research papers mentioned esters, ketones, alcohols, terpenes, and more all being responsible for lending attributes to the unique scent of blueberries.

Blueberry types of cannabis are often floral and earthy, sometimes smelling only faintly, some are more pungent and dank smelling, others are straight up candy. There’s a range from vanilla to chocolate, cherry, tobacco, cedar and wood. Juicy fruit gum too. Blueberry muffins fresh out of the oven I think is where blueberry jam meets hints of vanilla. Blueberry types are definitely some of my favorites so I’m a bit bias. Many blessings and much love

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