A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet as a Rose?

OK this old saying get to me would a rose smell as sweet if they were called Smelly Socks / shite in a bucket / dirty dog or puke would you really want to know what it smelt like





(so how would you know it smells as sweet as a rose)

A Rose by any other name would still smell as sweet as a Rose?
From Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, 1594: "...a rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."





It means that what matters is what something is, not what it is called. Maybe it will be clearer in context, if you can get through the flowery (no pun intended) language--





JULIET:


'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;


Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.


What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,


Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part


Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!


What's in a name? that which we call a rose


By any other name would smell as sweet;


So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,


Retain that dear perfection which he owes


Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,


And for that name which is no part of thee


Take all myself.





Of course, this observation does not take into account how preconceived ideas can alter someone's perception of reality. A rose, if called Festering Monkey Pus, would objectively smell as sweet. However, the person taking a whiff is expecting something nasty, and would be inclined to think, "Well, it's not as bad as I was expecting, but I don't know if I really like it."
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if a new rose came out and in stead of it been referred to as a purple rose it was called Rotten Fish Heads


would i want to smell it


(NO)


so how would i know it smelt like a rose