From candles to body sprays, air fresheners to ice cream, vanilla’s increasing ubiquity has made it a key flavor and fragrance component. This growing popularity, then, gives rise to a whole series of issues involving commercial markets, sourcing, regional variations in product, extraction, analysis and authentication, and synthesis, among many others.
Vanilla 2003: First International Congress
Dec 28th, 2008



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