Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Best perfume: Aromatics sources from synthetic

Synthetic sources
Many modern perfumes contain synthetic odorants synthesized. Synthetics can provide fragnances which are not found in nature. For instance, Calone, a compound of synthetic origin, imparts a fresh ozonous metallic marine scent that is widely used in contemporary perfumes. Synthetic aromatics are often used as an alternate source of compounds that are not easily obtained from natural sources. For example, linalool and coumarin are both naturally occuring compounds that can be inexpensively synthesized from terpenes. Orchid scents (typically salicylates) are usually not obtained directly from the plant itself but are instead synthetically created to match the fragnant compounds found in various orchids.

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