In this anecdote from the sixth rowzeh of Jami's Baharestan, a poet recites his verse to a learned man and boasts that he composed it in the privy — the Persian word khala punning on both the latrine and solitary retreat. The learned man replies that the poem indeed carries the smell of that place, and Jami's closing verse sharpens the satire: such a versifier should not be called eloquent, because a person of refined taste can tell from the poem's very fragrance the base source from which it came.

The story encodes a classical Persian literary standard — that the quality and moral origin of poetry become sensible to the discerning, so that worthless verse exposes itself to a cultivated palate. It concretizes the broader doctrine that a poet must first purify inner disposition before any pleasant fragrance can rise from the verse.