aromatic vs flavor

aromatic

noun
  • A fragrant plant or spice added to a dish to flavour it. 

  • Any aromatic compound. 

adj
  • Fragrant or spicy. 

  • Having a closed ring of alternate single and double bonds with delocalized electrons. 

  • Derived from benzene. 

flavor

noun
  • A substance used to produce a taste. Flavoring. 

  • One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon). 

  • The characteristic quality of something. 

  • A variety (of taste) attributed to an object. 

  • The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect. 

  • A kind or type. 

verb
  • To add flavoring to something. 

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