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of around 70 different scent molecules.
It is estimated that the smell of cof-
fee results from a combination
of at least 150 different chem-
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ical substances. A top-qual-
ity perfume may contain
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500 ingredients. The anal-
ysis mechanism in your
nose identifies these chemi-
cal substances at very low
concentrations, without your be-
ing aware of it. All these processes
that take place between your detecting a
smell and concluding that it belongs to coffee brewing, take place
in much less than a second. Bearing all this in mind, the supe-
rior creation in the scent perception mechanism can
doubtless be better appreciated.
God reveals in one verse that:
And in your creation and all the creatures He has
spread about there are Signs for people with
certainty. (Surat al-Jathiyya: 4)
