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Molecule 4471A smells like something you’d detect in a perfume: It has a citrusy tang of sugar and acid, but also notes that turn it from fruit towards flowers.
It contains neither. Like other synthetic molecules created by Osmo, 4471A wasn’t derived from blooms blanketing a field in France but brewed in a lab — in this case, an office in New York packed with glass flasks, robotic machinery and jars of chemical compounds.
Osmo spun out…
