Synthetic fragrances are also called artificial synthetic fragrances, which are humans who imitate natural fragrances through their own science and technology. A certain "single body" perfume prepared or created by chemical or biosynthetic methods using different raw materials. There are more than 5,000 synthetic fragrances in the world, and more than 400 commonly used products. The synthetic perfume industry has become an important part of fine organic chemicals.
Synthetic fragrances are distinguished by their chemical structure or functional group, including hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, esters, lactones, aldehydes, ketones, phenols, ethers, acetals, ketals, and Fu-based, cyanide, macrocyclic, polycyclic, heterocyclic (pyrazine, pyridine, furan furthiazole, etc.), sulfides, halides, etc.
Synthetic fragrance (aroma chemical): The fragrance extracted from essential oils by physical or chemical methods is called isolated fragrance, such as eugenol obtained from clove oil; it is obtained by changing the structure of certain natural ingredients through chemical reaction The fragrances are called semi-synthetic fragrances, such as turpentyl alcohol made from pinene in turpentine; fully synthetic fragrances synthesized from basic chemical raw materials (such as linalool synthesized from acetylene, acetone, etc.).