So we really messed up on this one. Even we can have a difficult time with R and S Limonene! We appreciate your patience with this video and here it is for the final time. Rest assured everything in here is accurate and correct.

We messed up! A while ago we made a Facebook post about how the mirror-image forms of limonene create the smell of oranges and lemons — but it turns out we fell for a really persistent myth. So we wanted to clear it up! Here’s the lemony-fresh truth about the scent of citrus.

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Producer: Kirk Zamieroski
Writer: Emma Hiolski
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Sources:
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cbdv.200490146
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/172/3987/1044.long
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jfq.12226

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