Flowers use scents to attract bees and other organisms to carry their pollen from one place to another. People use flowers to make perfumes and colognes. If you were living at the time of the dinosaurs, could you have made perfume? Recently, the paleontology journal Historical Biology had a paper titled “The antiquity of floral secretory tissues that provide today’s fragrances,” authored by George Poinar and Greg Poinar, two Oregon State University experts on amber. Amber is sometimes mistakenly called petrified sap. It’s not. Sap is water-soluble. Amber is petrified resin, the hard-to-dissolve sticky stuff that oozes out of a pine when it is cut or damaged, such as when you cut a Christmas tree.