a suggestive moment in the allotment

[Rod in Japan]

but there's a certain tree that makes a very spunky smell in early summer.

I've asked around my female acquaintance, and a good number of them have noticed this evocative aroma.

I'm almost speechless, (it takes a lot). Could you describe the smell, me being innocent of nose and all....

Um, challenging one that. Something like wallpaper paste with hormones added? Flour and water mixed together with a large tablespoon of pheromones? I think the tree is a fairly common variety as it's in Japan too, and the smell is projected for several blocks in all directions.

[Millymollymandy]

I'd love to know what tree you are talking about! Can you find out the name?

[Rod in Japan]

Millymollymandy, I don't have time now to do a comprehensive search, but if you Google 'sperm tree', you'll quickly find a number of candidates, and some rather entertaining prose commentary on the subject. I can't really remember much about what the tree looks like.

[Millymollymandy]

It's an ornamental pear! From the Urban Dictionary:

sperm tree
Ornamental Pear Tree (Pyrus calleryana Chanticleer), smells like spunk when in full bloom. See "semen tree" also.

"God, I wish my neighbors hadn't planted that sperm tree next to our fence. Now my backyard smells like furniture from a whorehouse."