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To confirm the suspicion, the team sprayed cut-grass smell—a mix of three volatile chemicals—onto fields that hadn’t been mowed recently.

He loved that territory right down to the cut-grass, dry-dust smell of it.

Across the city, on the other side of the hills, “the Olympics of urbanisation”, Habitat III – a once-every-20-years United Nations conference to discuss the future of the planet’s cities – has landed with a bureaucratic bang on the pristine, cut-grass lawns of central Quito’s El Arbolito park.

That cut-grass scent, cis-3-hexanol, is called leaf alcohol.

Spikelet very flat, its two bracts closely folded together Cut-grass, Leersia oryzoides. 18c.