This past weekend as I enjoyed lovely time with my family, I spotted a purple surprise found on a fresh spring grass carpet. Violet flowers! I remember violets were one of my favorite flowers as a kid growing up. Their beautiful mild purple color in various shades and intensities is hard to miss. Apart from color there is a perceptible scent, as you approach its’ petals. Every time I smell viola it immediately brings certain portion of my childhood to me. Always, but every time, I smell violet is a first time, as research shows … Their certainly unique smell has to do lots with molecular composition found in their purple petals. Ionones is the answer! These aroma compounds found in a variety of essential oils are major components of viola’s scent. Specifically α-ionone, β-ionone, β-dihydroionone , compounds differing from each other only by positioning of double bond in a cyclohexenyl moiety or presence of CC double bond connecting C α -C β . Vital role in char...