Abstract

Aroma chemicals are an important group of organic molecules used as ingredients in flavor and fragrance compositions. These chemicals consist of natural, nature-identical and artificial molecules.

There are 3000 different molecules that find use in the production of flavor and fragrance compositions. Synthetic ingredients play a major part as components due to their convenient availability and the relatively lower costs compared to natural molecules from isolation of relatively limited natural sources.

This chapter is for those who intend to get a clear overview of all kinds of aroma chemicals including the chemical structure and a brief odor description.