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Robertet's Jessica Reichert touches on the ingredient's versatility and usage.

Perfumer Notes: Orris

Robertet's Jessica Reichert touches on the ingredient's versatility and usage.

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Orris: A Star of Inspiration

An evocative natural ingredient with roots in artistic and olfactive history.

What future essential oils?

Communication between the essential oil supplier, fragrance supplier, and marketer must be improved. We are not always in a position to know which odor areas interest you. Your most creative fragrance ideas might be available today, with the right combination of natural products and natural-like aroma chemicals recently developed. This potent combination now allows for the greatest creative effort ever possible.

Raw Material Report: Editing Nature

Finding new, unique naturals and refining traditional extracts for contemporary effects

Unsaturated Trimethyl Undecanals -- Chemistry and Odor

Floral notes in formulation

From ingredients to packaging, the barrier to entry is lower for body sprays than fine fragrances.

Forward Thinking: 3 Fragrance Trends Happening Now

Solid perfumes, enhanced body sprays, and music-inspired scents are the latest fine fragrance trends hitting shelves.

As one of the most popular and expensive oils of the 19th century, violet oil’s compounds could be isolated into three major ionones. It was found that depending on the synthetic route, mixtures of the ionones in different ratios were formed, each of which had unique fragrance profiles.

Patenting Non-Naturally Occurring Fragrance Compounds

What does the patent literature tell us about innovation in the area of non-naturally occurring fragrance compounds? This short article provides some recent examples of U.S. patents that have claimed “new, useful and non-obvious” non-naturally occurring fragrance compounds or compositions.

Debut's proprietary technology replicates the molecular olfactive “fingerprint” of fragrance ingredients.

Debut Launches Plant Cell Biotech Platform for Fragrance Ingredients Without Cultivation

Debut’s founder and chief executive officer Joshua Britton explains his company's technology platform and how this can be a fragrance industry game changer.

Versailles was a practice in social ritual, royal etiquette and unrelenting opulence. It also happened to stink like an outhouse.

Royalty and Fragrances Part 2: The Scent of Versailles

Part two explores the fragrantly decadent court of Marie Antoinette, where her perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon saturated everyone in Versailles.

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EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT: Eternity: Ideas and Evolution

How innovations in chemistry have driven olfactive creativity.

The senior perfumer at Givaudan shares project wins, where they find inspiration and much more.

Profiles: Caroline Sabas

The senior perfumer at Givaudan shares project wins, where they find inspiration and much more.

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Forward Thinking: Fragrances of the Moment

Fine fragrance continues to be a competitive landscape, with a plethora of fragrance applications and choices across all distributions. With a myriad of options, consumers are no longer confined to fine fragrance for a memorable fragrance experience.

Presented with the swatch that would inspire Bill Blass Couture 7, Delphine Jelk was struck by its sense of spontaneity: 'So I went to citrus, very sparkling.'

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Three perfumers discuss their translations of couture into scent.

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Forward Thinking: Fierce Fragrances

Fine fragrance activity is being driven by new entrants, fashion designers, pop culture icons and entertainers and wearable scents. Novel packaging, fragrance focused retailers and interactive scent experiences continue to attract consumers.

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Indian Sandalwood Returns to the Perfumer’s Palette

Industry perfumers muse about the rare Indian sandalwood’s (Santalum album) earthy and complex notes sought after in fine fragrance formulations.

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Fragrances and Fragranced Products: A Strong Alliance

The powerful appeal of many soaps, detergents and cleaning products to consumers is often directly related to the products’ scents. Producers and suppliers of cleaning products understand that an amazing amount of research and innovation goes into the creation of product fragrances and that fragrance ingredients are at the leading edge in the defense of protections for trade secrets.

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Fragrance Trends: Global Fragrance -- Not Making Scents

The fragrance industry faces declining sales, increasing competition and a shorter shelf life. Valued at $25 billion last year, the global market for fragrance continues to flounder, with sales increasing at a rate that is slower than the average growth for the industry as a whole (see T-1). Why is this market proving to be such a challenge?

Social Interaction and Fragrance Use: Personal Fragrance Use

A Summary of Research Conducted for the Fragrance Research Fund. Despite the widespread use of personal fragrances and their assumed influence on social behavior, there has been little research documenting such influence. The goal of the proposed study was to provide such documentation, to understand the role fragrances play in determining social behavior.

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