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Harun Yahya

cretory tissues. Special cells undertake this function on the
upper surfaces of rose, lily and lilac plants. In lavender,
these cells are distributed all over the plant. Plants use very
fine and sensitive secretory hairs to disseminate these per-
fumes. Cells at the tips of these hairs emit a fluid mixture of oil
and resin that evaporates easily. When we add the internal se-

cretory cells, secretory sacs and secretory channels to this sys-
tem, we are looking at an astonishing design all squeezed into
a tiny leaf. The dissemination of the plant’s perfume into the air
is a great miracle and source of enormous pleasure for human
beings. When you enter a garden the delightful fragrance you
Lavender
encounter reaches you thanks to this impeccable design in the
leaves. Were it not for this order in leaves, flowers could not be
able to give off their scents, which would remain locked inside them.
So to whom do the power, intellect and artistry belong that tell plants

to emit these fragrances and that design them in that manner? All of these
sublime attributes are the work of our Lord, the infinitely compassionate
and merciful.
During the production of scent, the most accurate calculations apply.
Molecules with the most highly complex structures are produced during
the course of this process. For instance, the Spanish jasmine (Jasminum
grandiflorum), makes use of 10 different compounds to produce its fra-

grance. The rose family uses between three and 10 compounds in scent
production. The white freesia (Freesia alba) and the water lily (Nelumbo nu-
cifera) use 10 and six, respectively. The honeysuckle (Lonicera periclyme-
num) that blossoms in gardens in June uses six different chemical com-
pounds. These chemical compounds, shown in the table overleaf, that we
have difficulty in even reading, are used as a perfume and chemical for-
mula separately by every plant, in areas too small to be seen with the na-
ked eye. However, everywhere in the world, the same plants have been
producing the same scents ever since the moment they were first created.

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