On the smell, no idea.

And about the organic…. my guess is that it’s useless as it would still likely be toxic to ingest. Besides if all the flower extract used so far had pesticide in it, would’t the pesticite have contributed to the specific smell of those flower absolute?

This is obviously a hot-button issue for me, sorry. I’ll stop now.

There is, first of all, NO governmentally-recognized standard of what “organic” means. Basically, if you call it organic, it can be labeled as organic – but that could mean anything from “we didn’t use any pesticides on this cabbage” to “we stopped spraying pesticides thirty days before harvest.” Or in the case of meat, “we didn’t treat any of our sick chickens with penicillin, we just let them die and yanked the dead ones out of the cage where they were living with all the others.” (Sorry about that, it was sort of graphic. But organic farming can be in some ways crueler to animals than standard, and it *can* use resources like water, land, and fossil fuels in far greater proportions than industry-standard methods.)

I don’t buy organics, I just scrub everything. (It’s rare for us to get sick, although we do have our bouts with the usual childhood viruses and whatnot.) It does annoy me that “organic” seems to imply that “nonorganic” is automatically bad, instead of the crapshoot that “organic” is as well. Especially when referring to a product that you’re not even going to ingest.

Stepping down now. And if you want more information (most of it gathered from our state land-grant university), please email me.