The team found similar results for the six
different scent molecules they analyzed.
Not exact matches
Nearly identical
molecules can have quite
different scents — synthetic musk was accidentally created from a tweaking of TNT
molecules in an explosives lab — and radically
different structures
Most
scents are composed of many odorants; a whiff of chocolate, for example, is made up of hundreds of
different odor
molecules.
Nearly identical
molecules can have quite
different scents — synthetic musk was accidentally created from a tweaking of TNT
molecules in an explosives lab — and radically
different structurescan smell similar, like the bitter almond tinge common to both marzipan and cyanide.
The real explanation for the spread of
scent of course is basic convection in a fluid medium, with the
different weights and effects of the actual
scent molecules which is alchohol and water, the alchohol having a triggering effect on water at the surface making it even lighter than air than it usually evaporates.