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Endpoint. Seeing Past the Amber Glass

What do you think the consumer envisions in a product touted as natural? That using it will make them healthier, wholesome and bring them closer to nature? Or that nature’s extracts hold secrets to longevity and enlightenment?

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Progress in Essential Oils: Spike Lavender

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of spike lavender (Lavandula latifolia Medic).

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Progress in Essential Oils: Sweet Fennel Oil and Extract

In this column, Brian M. Lawrence reviews the composition of sweet fennel oil and extract as found by various researchers. For example, a commercial sample of sweet fennel oil was screened for its anti-platelet activity by Tognolini et al. (2006) and Guerini et al. (2006) using GC-FID and GC/MS. Results are reported herein.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Ylang Ylang and Cananga oil

This month's column discusses the chemical compositions of ylang ylang and cananga oil.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Silver Fir or Abies alba oil

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of silver fir oil.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Myrica Gale

Adored by beavers, once found in beers of north western Germany during the Middle Ages and used as an effective insect repellant or a perfumery ingredient, myrica gale oil's constituents can shed new light to formulators on other ways it can be used in F&F.

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Endpoint: Look Both Ways

A yearly recap of F&F’s research highlights and what’s to come for 2018.

Argentinian Citrus Essential Oils 1992-1996

Over the last two decades several reports have been published on the production of essential oils in Argentina, particularly the citrus oils. Among the citrus oils, lemon is the dominant product.

The Worldwide Flavor and Fragrance Industry, 1985-1990

Basic Industry Trends in an Unstable Monetary and Highly Competitive Environment

The World Flavor and Fragrance Industry 1979-1981

Since 1979, the world flavor and fragrance industry has experienced a period of lower profitability brought about by lower nominal (calculated in current U.S. dollars and local currencies) and real (quantity) growth rates as well as increased competitive pressures. Table I analyses in detail worldwide sales of 35 public and private companies (16 individually and 19 collectively) during the period 1979-1981 (with growth rates in current U.S. dollars and local currencies).

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Progress in Essential Oils: Turmeric Oil, Part 2

Part two of this two-part column compares the chemical compositions of turmeric oil and Curcuma longa.

Essential Oil Essential Oil Research and Symposia 1969-1989

The time is ripe, perhaps, to review the development which has taken place since the Essential Oil Symposium started in 1969—and try to see a little ahead. The aims of the symposia should be as before: namely, to bring together scientists who are interested in all aspects of essential oil research, for discussions of common problems and presentation of their results, to the benefit of essential oil research in general.

Basic Business Trends In The Worldwide Flavor and Fragrance Industry 1987-1990

Therefore, the consumption of flavors and fragrances is directly dependent on micro- and macro-economic conditions in these flavored and perfumed end-product markets. Growth in these end-product markets dictates the demand for flavor and fragrance materials.

1 + 1 = 3

P&G’s Steve Hicks on challenging category belief systems and innovating for superior fragrances and flavors that build brands.

1990’s Creative Challenges for a New Decade

Mr. Chairman, members of the American Society of Perfumers, honored guests and speakers. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 36th Annual Symposium of the Society. It is with particular pride and accomplishment that the society completes three and one-half decades of providing a forum for our industry. A forum which permits those within our industry or related to it to present their ideas or works to a large representation of the business at one time.

The National Geographic Smell Survey . . . 1.The Beginning

When Editor-in-Chief Bill Garrett first approached me with the idea of doing an article in the National Geographic on the sense of smell, I looked at him aghast. How could you, I asked, do a story on somethtng that cannot be seen or photographed, described (what does a rose smell like), held, heard, or touched. The more I looked into it however, the more I was intrigued by the idea of tackling this subject.

1,1-Dimethoxy-2,2,5-trimethyl-4-hexene: The Grapefruit Acetal

Chemistry and application in fragrance.

The Nectar of Gaia: Aroma Chology in the 1990s

It gives me great pleasure to be here today and to have this opportunity to talk to you about a connection that exists between the fragrance industry and the ecology of our planet. Millions of years ago the only fragrance that existed came from the earth itself, through the flora and fauna that was evolving in the biosphere, That portion of the earth’s fragrance created by living plants is what John Steele and I refer to as the Nectar of Gaia.

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