>>Has blood a coppery smell? I think I've read that description before. Strange when it's made from iron, eh - unless she was a Vulcan :-)
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>Don't know about smell, but blood definitely has a coppery taste. When I bleed in my mouth, there's that taste of pennies.
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You've tasted pennies? Did you used to carry money around in your mouth like the Russians in Peter the Great's time? ;-) (Actually they did, since robbery was so common).