stinking Xmas Tree - normal?

[Tanza]

We usually have a plastic tree but this year bought a real one from Lordship Lane. It started off with a pleasant small of pine but it's gradually turned into sickly-sweet smell that's verging on the unpleasant.

Is this par for the course with a real tree? Or have we just bought a dud one?

[Fabricio the Guido]

Can you describe the smell? Piney? Rotting vegetation? Dead animal? How strange. Have you tried glade? That's nature for you. I'd stick with a plastic tree in future...

[computedshorty]

Could it be the soil that you dug from the garden to plant the tree in?

[Tanza]

It's a very sweet smell, a cross between mild cat pee (we don't have a cat) and the smell you get in a vase when the flowers have been in too long. I bought the tree on a snowy day, so perhaps it's rotting. Anyway, I'll dump it outside, Xmas is over now anyway, bah humbug. Thank you Fabricio and Computed Shorty for your replies.

[Simonet]

I'm disposing of mine now too. Mine had the distinct taste of Dog pee.

There is a very noticeable difference between the smell of cat urine versus dog urine. Cat urine is very strong, high in ammonia content. Dog urine, on the other hand, has almost a sweet smell to it and is not nearly as potent. If the smell doesn?t knock you over or make your eyes water, I?d suspect the dog, if you have one !

Are you sure yours wasn't dog pee or was it cat pee? Was the smell of the possible urine high in ammonia content, would you say and do you have a Dog ?

[????]

Organic matter in decaying over time and starting to pong shocker

[Fabricio the Guido]

Simonet Wrote:

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> I'm disposing of mine now too. Mine had the

> distinct taste of Dog pee.

>

> There is a very noticeable difference between the

> smell of cat urine versus dog urine. Cat urine is

> very strong, high in ammonia content. Dog urine,

> on the other hand, has almost a sweet smell to it

> and is not nearly as potent. If the smell doesn?t

> knock you over or make your eyes water, I?d

> suspect the dog, if you have one !

>

> Are you sure yours wasn't dog pee or was it cat

> pee? Was the smell of the possible urine high in

> ammonia content, would you say and do you have a

> Dog ?

@Simonet, could i venture a sugestion for your specialist subject on mastermind should you ever compete....& did you really mean 'taste'? Move away from the drinks cabinet now. LOL

[Ms_Lilith]

Well, that is a very novel way of telling what it was :))

[SeanMacGabhann]

Just be glad it's not a money tree. Those things do more than stink the place up when they go off ;-)

But Christmas isn't even half way through yet Tanza. the song has many days left to go

[DulwichFox]

Tanza Wrote:

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> It's a very sweet smell, a cross between mild cat

> pee (we don't have a cat) and the smell you get in

> a vase when the flowers have been in too long.

Sounds like the smell of Dead Mouse.

[ClareC]

Sounds like a dog or cat has pee'd on it!

Ive never had a plastic tree and in my entire life the Christmas tree has not started to smell! My dad does make a point of not leaving his out in the garden in between buying it and putting it up - he left it on the patio overnight and a cat peed on it which was apparantly quite unpleasant!!

[Tarot]

If you bought your tree from a bunch on the pavement, chances are every dog, left its own little Christmas message

on it. You know all the dogs like a tree.