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**StitsVobsaith** · 04-29-2012, 06:45 PM

Just been outside tidying my garden and beating some lemon thyme into submission. While doing so I began to wonder about the lemon fragrance that many unrelated plants have (Eucalypts, lemon grass, lemon thyme, lemon balm and of course lemons). Do all these plants contain the same compound which creates this smell, or are unrelated chemicals involved that just happen to have this lemon property?

What other odours do plants have like the above examples? I was thinking peppermint, (mints, pelargoniums etc.), anybody want to add to the list or have other fragrances in mind?

04-29-2012, 06:45 PM	#1
StitsVobsaith Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 537 Senior Member	Fragrance of Leaves Just been outside tidying my garden and beating some lemon thyme into submission. While doing so I began to wonder about the lemon fragrance that many unrelated plants have (Eucalypts, lemon grass, lemon thyme, lemon balm and of course lemons). Do all these plants contain the same compound which creates this smell, or are unrelated chemicals involved that just happen to have this lemon property? What other odours do plants have like the above examples? I was thinking peppermint, (mints, pelargoniums etc.), anybody want to add to the list or have other fragrances in mind?
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