Flowers die, but does their scent also die?

Yes it dies…....Why would there be a scent without something for it to emanate from?

With cut flowers, scent has a shorter shelf life than the flowers. Ditto for growing things. Smell a freshly opening rose bud; check out the flower when it is starting to get blowsy. No smell, or at best, a rank one.

Yes.Dead roses don’t smell very good :)

What do you think pot pourri is?

Ah, metaphysics?

I am assuming that “die” means “cease to exist”.

A flower’s scent is a concept that exists beyond the flower. But that is a type, not a token. The scent-as-token has died, as others here have pointed out. Let’s be honest, though. The flower-as-type exists as well, even after that specific flower has decayed. This is more of question about semantics.

Is that what you’re getting at?

Pot pourri are dead (dried) flowers with sent added to it.

They don’t smell that way all on their own. ;-)

Oh, I see. Well, Plumeria blossoms smell quite lovely for weeks after they have died. My mommy has a Plumeria tree in So. Cal. which I often had to rake after.

Pot pourri has a number of essential oils (lavender, for example, minced cloves, possibly cinnamon and a fixative that is usually orris root). Dried flower petals have no scent (and clearly no “sent” either.”

The scent can be extracted, that’s what parfumiers do.

First it changes and eventually is gone.