Flavored sweets and edible perfumes: the vanishing line between food and perfume

Of all our senses, taste is the most closely related to smell. Smells play a major role in our enjoyment of food - what most people are accustomed to calling the taste of food is largely determined by smells. We don't have many taste buds: we distinguish between bitter, sweet, sour, salty, and recently scientists suggested recognizing the sixth taste named oleogustus i.e. the sensation of "fatness...