Volume 9 No. 2 2009 March 2009 793 INVESTIGATION OF THE RETRONASAL PERCEPTION OF PALM WINE (ELAEIS GUINEENSIS) AROMA BY APPLICATION OF SENSORY ANALYSIS AND EXHALED ODORANT MEASUREMENT (EXOM) Lasekan O 1,3 , Buettner A 1,2,4 * and M Christlbauer 1 Andrea Buettner *Corresponding author email: andrea.buettner@lmchemie.uni-erlangen.de 1 Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fuer Lebensmittelchemie, Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85748, Garching, Germany 2 Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV), Giggenhauser Str. 35, D-85354 Freising, Germany 3 Present address: Department of Food Science, University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 2240, Abeokuta Ogun State, Nigeria 4 Present address: Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry, Friedrich-Alexander- University, Schuhstr. 19, D-91052 Erlangen, Germany