Can you eat Bradford pears? I imagine the smell to be something like the sweet-rot of hawthorn blossom, but I'm probably stabbing in the dark.

To my knowledge the tiny fruits they produce are ornamental rather than edible by humans (they are distributed by birds, so I am not sure if the issue is that they are toxic to humans or just taste bad), although they are entertaining to look at because their skin has the amphibious greenish-brown speckled color of regular pears and they are maybe a centimeter in diameter. They smell saltier than hawthorn. I would not liken it to a sexual smell, but I described it to spatch last night as "tide-flat-y."