The Chemistry Of A Rose’s Sweet Smell Explained

Happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you’ve got a hot date or you’re hanging with your friends and family, it’s the perfect day to stop and smell the roses.

“Chemistry is full of these subtle differences,” Dr. Raychelle Burks, a chemist at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska and social media maven, says in the video. “Arranging atoms even slightly differently can mean that a rose by any other configuration doesn’t smell as sweet.”

The Huffington Post