An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance, or flavor, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor.

Quotes

• Sweet oil, the fragrance of the gods.
  • Lahar, in Debate between sheep and grain (mid to late 3rd millennium BCE)

• There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
  • William McFee, The Market from Modern Essays (1921) edited by Christopher Morley.

• Let me not so much be lost in involvements
  as would make me incapable of
  recognizing the fragrance of the flower
  beaming in my own yard.
  • Suman Pokhrel, "Entanglements"

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Aroma compound at Wikipedia