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Let's say you're walking through a field of flowers and your eyes are feasting on a rainbow of colors. The bright yellow

sunflowers, the blazing blue irises, the deep red roses, and perky pink

carnations. But your eyes aren't the only ones experiencing an explosion of variety.

Just think of all the fresh scent wafting into your nose too.

Each flower has its own unique scent.

Many are sweet, syrupy, and perfumy, but some emit a strong musky scent like garlic.

So what gives each flower its own unique scent, and why are there so many different smells?

Listen to Gloria was wondering about this.

My question is, why do different flowers have different smells?

So scent submitted from flowers play a critical role in attracting visitors

such as animals and insects and are often one piece of the way scientists determine what exactly visits those flowers.

My name is Josh Felton. I'm a senior at Colorado College and I am a botanist who has been studying the reproductive biology of a group of tropical plants called bramiliads.

So one plant I study has flowers with a strong garlicky odor that is somewhat unpleasant but has such an interesting smell that you keep wanting to come back to get a whiff.

And so we believe that this species is pollinated and visited by bats

and other flowers who attract pollinators at night often have strong, spicy, and or musty odors, but can also have fruity sense as well.

And for these nighttime flowers who are attracting pollinators such as bats, moths, and moths, these scents or olfactory cues play a crucial role in helping these creatures find the flower at night.

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