gardenia

I also have big gardenia in my kitchen and small gardenia propagated from the big gardenia that I put on my work desk.

You're right that in the long term, it doesn't matter, but when you walk outside and smell a gardenia...

A small child’s footprints wander across it, splaying like gardenia blossoms on thin shafts.

While not a hard and fast rule, most plant species with strongly scented flowers usually are white (jasmine, gardenia, etc.) and pollinated by nocturnal animals like moths and bats.

For speculative (near future) fiction, that uses a lightweight electrically-powered aircraft as a linking device, "News From Gardenia" by Robert Llewellyn, is a good read.

This is like describing the aroma of a gardenia or the sound of your child singing to herself as she plays as “almost certainly useless”.

All I could relate to out of that was “coffee” and “gardenia”.

Yes, this compound does contribute to the smell of feces ( mixed together a cornucopia of other things ) but trace amounts are also founds in “White” florals, like Jasmines, Tuberose, Neroli, Orange Blossom Gardenia, etc.

For speculative (near future) fiction, that uses a lightweight electrically-powered aircraft as a linking device, "News From Gardenia" by Robert Llewellyn, is a good read.

This is like describing the aroma of a gardenia or the sound of your child singing to herself as she plays as “almost certainly useless”.

All I could relate to out of that was “coffee” and “gardenia”.

Yes, this compound does contribute to the smell of feces ( mixed together a cornucopia of other things ) but trace amounts are also founds in “White” florals, like Jasmines, Tuberose, Neroli, Orange Blossom Gardenia, etc.