Gosmen, a Dirty Smell in the Air

Gosman is that nice earthy smell that occurs after a rainfall or when you stir up some nice damp earth. We can detect of gosmen better than we can detect almost any other scent. And it may be helped, like humans sniff out water away back in the day, by making dirt smell dirty and beats smell beaty. But there's sort of a mystery associated with gosmen. It's not really known what advantage there is in these organisms making it. So does this entirely answer the mystery of why soil dwelling bacteria make geosman? Who knows. There are t e milipedes that use geos men to communicate with each other. Maybe it's just

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