q15

[dubdobdee]

q15:
i: Of what does Fenton smell?
ii: In what odour did the thieving Jim Crow die?
iii: What inaccurate name is applied to the ursine foot?
iv: Who are compared to fish in beginning to smell after three days?
v: What are similar to chemicals, in that closer analysis results in a worsening odour?
vi: Whose recently discovered Sense of Smell, now just leaves Taste unaccounted for?
vii: What fragrance did the lovers inhale within Prince Eugen’s collection?
viii: What smell fills the air in the absence of the Electrician?
ix: What smells characterised Camberley at 9 o’clock?
x: What is ubiquitous, invisible and odourless?

COMPLETED:
i: Fenton is not the deer-chasing dog of internet fame but a fellow in The Merry Wives of Windsor who "smells April and May" (googled by jeff_worrell)
ii: THE JACKDAW OF RHIEMS died in the "odour of sanctity": it stole a cardinal's ring and was made a saint in The Ingoldsby Legends (googled by jeff_worrell)
iii: is possibly the STINKING HELLEBORE aka BEAR'S FOOT (tho there seems to be controversy over its stinking nature) (googled controversy via jeff_worrell and braisedbywolves)
iv: GUESTS, according to BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (googled by belecrivain)
v:
vi: REMBRANDT's Sense of Smell was recently rediscovered and reunited with three of the five senses: only Taste is still missing (googled by jeff_worrell)
vii:
viii:
ix: This refers to Betjeman's poem 'A Subaltern’s Love Song': "… nine-o’clock Camberley, heavy with bells/And mushroomy, pine-woody, evergreen smells" (googled by jeff_worrell)
x:

Comments

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

iii. might be the Stinking Hellebore, a plant, aka dungwort or bear's foot, but that really does smell, so that doesn't fit with "inaccurate"

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

"Despite its common name, it is not noticeably malodorous" sez Wikipedia?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

("although the foliage is pungent when crushed")

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Off to Google then, as this q is a bit of a stinker it seems.

i. may be Master Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor
"he capers, he / dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he / speaks holiday, he smells April and May" (3.2.56-58) (sic, no "of")

Appaz that means he smells nice.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ii. is the 'odour of sanctity' - the question alludes to the poem The Jackdaw of Rheims, the most well known of the The Ingoldsby Legends - a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham. The poem is about a bird that steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

vi. is Rembrandt - explanation here.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ix. is from the poem 'A Subaltern’s Love Song' by John Betjeman

By roads “not adopted”, by woodlanded ways,
She drove to the club in the late summer haze,
Into nine-o’clock Camberley, heavy with bells
And mushroomy, pine-woody, evergreen smells.

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

all right, I put iv into the search. It's guests, and it's an aphorism attributed to Benjamin Franklin.