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Gen Hoffman watched as 18,000 gas shells rained down on the Russian lines, each one filled with the chemical xylyl bromide, an early form of tear gas.

The horseradish-like smell of deadly mustard gas was often disguised by a compound named xylyl bromide which smelled, of all things, like lilac; as the historian Richard Rhodes puts it, “thus it came to pass in the wartime spring that men ran in terror from a breeze scented with blossoming lilac shrubs”.

Xylyl Bromide.—This was one of the early lachrymators, and was produced at Leverkusen in a plant with a maximum monthly output of sixty tons.