So I could detect a scent and think to myself “hey, that’s a flavonoid.”
Extremely similar chemical compounds can have very different smells to humans and very different compounds can have very similar smells. So while this may be possible, I’m not sure that human smell senses are good enough to do this in general.
Extremely similar chemical compounds can have very different smells to humans and very different compounds can have very similar smells. So while this may be possible, I’m not sure that human smell senses are good enough to do this in general.