# Floral Scent Evaluation of Three Cut Flowers Through Sensorial and Gas Chromatography Analysis
## 3 Results
### VOCs Analysis  
Analysis of the VOCs by GC-MS identified a total of 28 volatile compounds, most of them mono and sesquiterpenes. The highest number of compounds were detected in chrysanthemum (21 VOCs), followed by freesia (14 VOCs) and oriental lily (14 VOCs) (Table 2). The monoterenes \(\alpha\)-pinene, \(\beta\)-pinene, \(\beta\)-myrcene, and D-limonene were detected in all three species, although with different relative abundances. The major volatile compounds detected were \(\beta\)-pinene, linalool, and \(\beta\) cis-ocimene for chrysanthemum, freesia, and oriental lily, respectively (Figure 3). While chrysanthemum showed the lowest value for the relative area (sum total = 1221), oriental lily showed the highest value (sum total = 84,791) (Table 2). Figure 2: Floral scent liking and intensity of chrysanthemum, freesia, and oriental lily, evaluated through sensorial analysis (\(\pm\)SE, \(n\) = 80). The scale ranged from ’like extremely/extremely high’ (= 9) to ’dislike extremely/extremely low’ (= 1). Different letters (small = liking, capital = intensity) indicate significant differences in ANOVA followed by a [PERSON]’s post hoc test (\(p\leq 0.05\)). \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c} \hline \hline
**Kovats** & **ID** & **Volatile Compound** & **Anomatic Description** & \multicolumn{2}{c}{**Chrystalline**} & **Feesia** & **Oriental Liy** \\ \hline
928 & C & cyclone & plastic & 51.1 \(\pm\) 0.4 & 45.3 \(\pm\) 13.51 & 155 \(\pm\) 31 \\
940 & B & origamente & wood, green, heb & 0.4 \(\pm\) & nd & 163 \(\pm\) 38 \\
950 & B & a-pinene & pipe, interpure & 7.84 \(\pm\) 12.5 & 7.40 \(\pm\) 0.77 & 739 \(\pm\) 159 \\
970 & B & camphene & camphor, mothball, oil, warm & 93.9 \(\pm\) 8.2 & nd & nd \\
995 & C & cumene & solvent & 38.9 \(\pm\) 2.2 & 2.8 \(\pm\) 5.7 & 150 \(\pm\) 51 \\
1006 & A & B-pinene & pine, resin, interpure, wood & 156 \(\pm\) 9 & 90.3 \(\pm\) 1.9 & 218 \(\pm\) 64 \\
1008 & B & mesylylene & pesticide & 45.2 \(\pm\) 12.9 & 24.5 \(\pm\) 0.8 & 77.8 \(\pm\) 7.3 \\
1024 & B & D-Innocente & lemon, orange & 45.83 \(\pm\) 12.62 & 37.9 \(\pm\) 10.3 & 779 \(\pm\) 118 \\
1028 & B & eucalypt & pine, eucalyptus, hebal, & & nd & 2447 \(\pm\) 665 \\
1036 & C & p-terpinene & lemma & 24.29 \(\pm\) 5.46 & nd & 184 \(\pm\) 13 \\
1046 & B & trans-p-to-coincure & herbaceous, weak floral, green, & 109 \(\pm\) 1.1 & nd & 1180 \(\pm\) 48 \\  & & & & & & \\
1054 & A & \(\beta\)-cis-coincure & warm backheoves, green, & 102.2 \(\pm\) 1.6 & 35,931 \(\pm\) 624 \\
1062 & - & Unidentified between 1 & 1n\({}^{*}\) & 21.1 \(\pm\) 3.3 & 19.8 \(\pm\) 1.6 & 3887 \(\pm\) 578 \\
1085 & B & \(\gamma\)-terpinene & gasoline, interpure, bitter, & 6.94 \(\pm\) 1.09 & 4.26 \(\pm\) 1.39 & nd \\  & & & & & & \\
1101 & A & Imiol & flower, lawneder, beginnote, & nd & 982 \(\pm\) 256 & nd \\
1108 & B & noanal & fat, citrus, green, pumpout & 12.5 \(\pm\) 1.7 & nd & nd \\
1110 & B & chrysyntheorene & nil & 63.6 \(\pm\) 1.86 & nd & nd \\
1155 & B & camphor & camphor, earth, pipe, splice & 159 \(\pm\) 3.0 & nd & nd \\
1171 & C & methyl breonate & prune, lettuce, heb, sweet & nd & nd & 2916 \(\pm\) 918 \\
1345 & C & terfense & nil & 107 \(\pm\) 27 & 135 \(\pm\) 12 & nd \\
1445 & B & dihydro-to-income & woody colda, liver myself, soily & nd & 47.5 \(\pm\) 148 & nd \\
1446 & B & carboxy/plane & balasile, heb, wood, splice & 41.3 \(\pm\) 9.7 & nd & nd \\
1453 & B & a-bergomote & wood, warm, tea & 25.6 \(\pm\) 1.3 & nd & nd \\
1490 & B & \(\beta\)-income & seaweed, violet, flower, & nd & 412 \(\pm\) 118 & nd \\  & & & & & \\
1496 & B & a-farnenene & wood, swect, citrus, floral & 17.9 \(\pm\) 0.5 & nd & 48.2 \(\pm\) 7.8 \\
1512 & C & (E)-d-mensen & citrus, green, floral, fresh & 94.8 \(\pm\) 5.1 & nd & nd \\
1539 & B & \(\beta\)-calienne & thymine, medicine, wood & 32.5 \(\pm\) 3.7 & nd & nd \\
1544 & - & Unidentified between 2 & nil & 54.5 \(\pm\) 10.8 & 3.24 \(\pm\) 1.15 & nd \\ \hline  & & Sum total & & 1221 & 3278 & 84,791 \\ \hline  & & & & & & \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}  
* nd = not detected;
* n = no information  
\end{table}