Coffee aroma molecules
Winter is coming and all of us are looking for something cozy and warm. The easiest and fastest way to create a pleasant atmosphere of comfort is to simply make a cup of aromatic coffee. Even if you are not a fan of coffee itself, the fragrance of freshly brewed cup of coffee will fascinate everyone.
Did you know that to compose a unique aroma of freshly brewed coffee the right combination of over ten different molecules is needed. Moreover, if you’d smell them separately, the smell of some of them you wouldn’t enjoy at all. For example, 3-mercapto, 3-methylbutylformate, which has a catty smell or methanethiol, which has a smell of rotten cabbage. Some molecules have an earthy smell (2-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine), or a smoky earthy smell (2-ethyl, 3,5-dimethylpyrazine).