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Now, while the smell wafts over you, let me tell you the history of an idea.
現在，趁著香味還縈繞在你們周圍，我來為你們介紹一個想法形成的過程。
Everything that you're smelling in here is made up of atoms that come from what I call the Upper East Side of the periodic table -- a nice, safe neighborhood.
現在你所聞到的都是由這樣一些原子組成的，他們來自被我稱為元素周期表“上東區”的地方--一個美好而安全的街區。
You really don't want to leave it if you want to have a career in perfumery.
如果你想從事香水業，你一定不想離開這個地方。
Some people have tried in the 1920s to add things from the bad parts, and it didn't really work.
二十世紀二十年代有一些人嘗試在香水中添加來自“壞街區”的原子，沒有成功。
These are the five atoms from which just about everything that you're going to smell in real life, from coffee to fragrance, are made of.
這五個原子可以組成從咖啡到香水，現實生活中你所能聞到的一切。
The top note that you smelled at the very beginning, the cut-grass green, what we call in perfumery -- they're weird terms -- and this would be called a green note,
你們最開始聞到的“前味”用香水專有名詞說就是割下來青草的香味，聽起來很奇怪，這一類被稱為綠葉調，
because it smells of something green, like cut grass.
聞起來像綠色的東西，比如割下來的青草。
This is cis-3-hexene-1-ol.
它的成分是順式-3-已烯-1-醇。
And I had to learn chemistry on the fly in the last three years.
過去的三年里，我可是在匆忙之中學的化學。
A very expensive high school chemistry education.
在一所十分昂貴的中學的化學課上學的。
This has six carbon atoms, so "hexa," hexene-1-ol.
它有六個碳原子，所以寫作“hexa”，已烯-1-醇。
It has one double bond, it has an alcohol on the end, so it's "ol," and that’s why they call it cis-3-hexene-1-ol.
它有一個雙鍵，在一端有一個乙醇，這是它的“醇”，這就是為什么大家稱之為順式-3-已烯-1-醇。
Once you figure this out, you can really impress people at parties.
一旦你弄清楚它的結構，你就可以在派對上賣弄了。
