When I eat something, say garlic, its scent is often similar to its taste. This usually applies to most foods. But things like food-scented candles, lotions, etc., smell one way and taste terrible (I promise I’ve only gotten them in my mouth on accident). Why is this? Don’t the same molecules that give something an odor the same ones that give it a flavor? Should that apple cinnamon flavored candle taste like my mom’s apple pie?
In: Biology
ok that makes total sense. I was thinking it was probably something like that, thanks
The nice flavour chemicals would diffuse in the air, but the other chemicals defuse much less as they are larger and bonded better.
But when you put it in your mouth, you are then dissolving all the chemicals in your saliva. And you experience the full flavour.
So the candle is catfishing you, giving out only the nice smelling compounds but when you have all the componds, it is rancid.
Durian fruit is one of those things in nature that taste very different from the way they smell.
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