The AROMA of Fresh Cut Grass

That "Fresh Cut Grass" smells so good and calming. But is there a word for the smell of freshly cut grass? I know the word "petrichor" means the smell of rain after a long dry-spell. Then it should be a name for the smell that produced after we mowed our lawn, right?

 

Together with the smell of Strawberries, we call it 'the smell of England in Summer'.

 

Coumarin

Interestingly, an anticoagulant (predecessor of warfarin rat poison) produced by damaged plants in an attempt to get rid of herbivores.

 

That’s interesting — I know of warfarin fr farm days and then Coumadin fr healthcare work days

Here is an article about how cows (then lab animals) helped create the human medication

This month in 1939: How dead cattle led to the discovery of warfarin - PMLiVE

 

I do believe that dried sweet grass and sweet woodruff also contain the coumarin. They smell wonderful!