How do companies create flavours like fruits,coffee etc without using actual fruit or coffee?

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How do companies create flavours like fruits,coffee etc without using actual fruit or coffee?

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Once during middle school, McCormick seasoning company came in and did some science stuff with us. One thing was they let us sniff three different chemicals separately, and they all smelled bad. But when you combined them, it smelled like strawberry!