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The easiest aromas to synthesise from pure chemicals are the smells of flowers and the tastes of fruit, and smells like oil of wintergreen. These are chemicals called esters. They are what you get when you react an alcohol with a carboxylic acid. If you get a selection of these two classes of compound and a few other basic chemicals, you can have a lot of fun making aromas of natural products, and some aromas which don't exist in nature. Most of them are pleasant. None are poisonous in small quantities. For decades soft drink manufacturers have been making fruit drinks that don't contain a drop of real fruit juice, household cleaners that smell like pine or lemon but are 100% synthetic, and perfumes that don't contain any real flower essence.

2006-07-05 15:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 3 0

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