The buckets contained other items too. From memory SC's jogging bottoms and twin's tracksuit bottoms.
How many more times...my signature odour is irrelevant. The experiment was carried out in an attempt to determine any discernible difference in odour between two pieces of fabric left to soak in bowls: one stained with arterial blood the other stained with menstrual blood.
If you want to use wine tasters as an anology you would need to pour about 2 teaspoons of say Beaujolais into one bowl of water and 2 teaspoons of say Bordeaux into another bowl of water and then see if the tasters were able to discern the wine by smell.
Surely it's not difficult to understand that stained fabric left to soak in water eradicates the smell by way of dilution? May I suggest you carry out your own experiment.
AE isn't a dog!
Ah, well that puts your experiment waaaay out now you’ve said the bucket also contained Sheila’s jogging pants; the twins’ tracksuit bottoms; including her stained knickers.
For a bucket to accommodate that amount of clothing, and just one pair of bloodstained knickers would mean that the blood inside the bucket would be diluted to the equivalent of, say, one tablespoon of blood to up to a gallon of water. Which means , aroma aside, the concentration of blood in that water would be so diluted it would not only be hard to see, it would be absolutely impossible to extract.
Therefore, all this nonsense that AE or anyone else took Sheila’s blood from that bucket and replicated a back spatter pattern inside a moderator, whereby it dried into a blood flake (which contained no water) is complete rubbish.
By the way, if you poured Beaujolais into a bucket of water, and the same Beaujolais into another one — they’d smell identical.
Back to AE — IMO any dirty clothes/bloodstained knickers left soaking in water for a week where the room gets flooded with sunshine, and where a corpse had lay days earlier and no cleaning/disinfecting had been carried out, would give off a putrid smell. It’s possible AE has a powerful sense of smell, or its equally possible she mistook the aroma left of a corpse, pools of blood that hadn’t been cleaned properly, including insects which hatch in such conditions as being a strong smell of menstrual blood.
Whatever, the fact is, it was impossible to extract Sheila’s blood when it was diluted by so much water.