I have even more bad news for you, cyanide smells like bitter almonds, not sweet almonds(the ones you eat), and as it turns out, bitter almonds smell like that because they contain cyanide. People started saying that because they lived in places that bitter almonds are native to (Europe), and they are still used in cooking (after being processed to remove the cyanide).

Cyanide actually smells like poison, bitter and chemically.