Thanks for your detailed review and congrats on winning!
To be honest, the only reason you cannot search by scent is because we couldn't fit it in the same panel and we ran out of time to fiddle with margins.
About seeing the unknown flowers... Completely with you. I saw that bug while play testing and immediately went: that's bad, but I don't have time. On the other hand, the game is probably too complex, so maybe that's okay?
I agree the mechanics felt a bit disconnected, but the last thing our game needed was another mechanic! :D The thing about making a jam game with several mechanics is that we were so busy each implementing our own little thing that we forgot to balance them together. Definitely learnings for the next one!
Always love getting compared to famous games! Thanks!