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We don't want to smell like a dead horse arum. But we do want to smell like jasmine, which has a distinct fecal odor beneath the top notes of cloying sweetness. At very low levels, at levels that reach into childhood, at the level of the unconscious mind, at a level that defines our kinship with the rest of the world, urinary and fecal smells are commonly added to our best perfume.