Perfumer & Flavorist

Consumers are looking for healthier versions of their favorite indulgent treats, often with a reduced sugar or salt content.

Flavor Experts Discuss Challenges and Opportunities with Sugar, Salt Reduction for the Health-Conscious Consumer

This month’s Industry Insights column explores how flavor developers and manufacturers are balancing better-for-you formulations with the quality consumers know and love.

As neuroscience and ingredient technologies advance, it’s definitely possible to make reduced sugar foods and beverages taste better.

What Formulators Need to Know About Natural Flavorings with Modulating Properties

IFF's R&D teams aim to move fast creating new moleules without compromising the integrity of the science.

Biotechnology as a ‘Flexible Toolbox’ for R&D: Q&A with SVP of IFF Scent

Exploring the Nuances of Citrus for Wellness

Exploring the Nuances of Citrus for Wellness

ADM’s latest consumer research shows that citrus represents more to wellness than the conventional immunity boost.

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Fragrance is the smallest mass market segment, but it grew at the fastest rate, with both dollar sales and units up about 15%.

Beauty’s Resilience Comes With New Rules: 2025 Sales & Lessons for 2026 from Circana's Latest Data

Prestige unit sales increased at a flat rate, while average selling price was up by 1%.

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Lallemand’s Hevani™: Your Blueprint for Next‑Generation Vanilla Sensory Experiences

Lallemand’s Hevani™ delivers a clean, creamy vanilla profile through precision fermentation, offering stable quality, renewable sourcing, and consistent availability for modern flavor formulation.

The launch signals a strategic play around fragrance layering and base-building.

NOYZ Launches MYLK DE PARFUM, a Pour-On Fine Fragrance Milk That Rewrites the Ritual

The launch signals a strategic play around fragrance layering and base-building.

The Global Flavors and Fragrances Platform connects Azelis’s local F&F businesses through a unified operating and commercial model.

Azelis Taps Pierre-Jean Hellivan to Lead Global Flavors & Fragrances Platform

Since joining Vigon in 2011, and following its acquisition by Azelis in 2021, he has played a central role in global key account management and in strengthening cross-regional collaboration across the Azelis network.

Founded in 2009 by Mike Bagshaw (center), I.T.S has built a reputation for flavor solutions, supplying natural flavors across the food and beverage industries.

I.T.S to Build One of UK’s Largest Natural Flavor Manufacturing Sites

The site, expected to be operational in 12–18 months, will provide 20 times the liquid and powdered flavor capacity of I.T.S’ current Newbury facilities.

Positioned as a collaborative hub, the Jakarta center houses perfumers, creative assistants and an application lab working across categories, while remaining fully plugged into Givaudan’s global network.

Givaudan Doubles Down on Southeast Asia With Jakarta Creative Hub “10 Capital”

The opening marks a strategic step-up for Givaudan, which has operated in Southeast Asia for more than 30 years.