Program Description
Event Details
Mondays are for making! Participate in monthly STEAM activities for adults and teens.
MilliporeSigma Curiosity Lab: Flavors and Fragrances
In this lesson, students learn that humans can recognize more than 10 thousand scents. Students practice recognizing scents by smelling different chemicals on scent sticks. They then learn how their body recognizes and interprets scents. It is emphasized that the structure of the aroma compound is what causes the unique flavor or fragrance of the chemical based on how it interacts with human sensory receptors. They then use their initial research on the different scents to design a unique fragrance for a particular purpose. Students present their fragrance to the class, including the name of their fragrance, how they created it, what product it would be used in, who their audience is and how much the product would cost.