Field guides typically list it as having no odor, and most people agree. Some people report light, sweet odor. As it turns out, it’s actually the stinkiest mushroom I’ve ever come across, but only SOME people can smell it! It’s so strong I can smell it from several feet away and through a sealed ziplock baggie. I had a sample and 20 willing, perhaps reluctant, participants all smell the same sample. Of them, only myself and one little boy could smell it. It is a pungent, minty, chemically smell, reminiscent of camphor. (The little boy described it as peppermint.) It’s so strong I can smell it from several feet away and through a sealed ziplock baggie. Since then, I regularly poll people when they find it, and have had several smaller groups of people all sniff the same sample. Only about 1 out of 20 seem to be able to detect the odor.