If a food product has artificial flavorings (soda, candy/gum, breakfast cereal, etc.) do they also add an aroma agent to make it smell that way too? Or does whatever chemical goo they use as artificial flavor also coincidentally smell like it tastes?
From a quick survey of esters it appears that many of them are used as flavorings for their identical smell. I’m guessing it’s not a coincidence.
Remember, there are only a handful of things you can truly taste: Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and savory, at last count. Most of what we think of as flavor actually works through smell. That’s why “real” flavors taste the same as they smell, in the first place. Why would it be any different for the “artificial” ones?