Cyanide smells of almonds.
Cyanide smells like bitter almonds when it is present in almonds.
Cyanide poisoning can make the breath smell like almonds.
The linking verb is smells (lotion -> almonds).
Arsenic or rat poison as it more commonly know smells like bitter almonds. I found this out from the great Edgar Allen Poe :)
Cyanide, although it smells of almonds only about two thirds of people can smell it.
cyanide --- probably hydrogen cyanide gas supposedly smells like almonds.
Hydrogen cyanide gas smells like bitter almonds. This odor is often compared to the smell of cyanide, which is a deadly poison. It is important to note that a person's ability to detect this odor can vary.
The smell of almonds can be indicative of the presence of hydrogen cyanide, or cyanide gas, which has a bitter almond-like scent in low concentrations. However, there are no explosives that naturally smell like almonds.
almonds or peach kernels
Cyanide has a bitter almond-like smell. This is because cyanide compounds release a chemical that smells like almonds when they react with enzymes in the body.
"Cyanide" is the polyatomic ion CN-. Compounds of cyanide reportedly tend to smell like "bitter almonds" (as opposed to sweet almonds, which smell like benzaldehyde); they're toxic enough I don't go around intentionally sniffing them.