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Fragrance Leaders & Newsmakers 2026: The Great Reset—Leadership Shifts and the 4 Forces Driving the Industry’s Future

Insights from major fragrance houses and upstarts reveal a future defined by the complex, yet integrated, dynamics of human creativity, scientific precision and hyper-local market relevance.

Mane's Aquafine is a fluid, transparent, biodegradable and highly fragrancing solution available for various categories of products from fine fragrance to fabric care.

5 Fragrance Innovation & Technology Debuts from Mane

Each technology is designed to overcome a challenge or demand within the fragrance/cosmetics realm.

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Sense and the Subconscious: Is Liking Enough?

When it comes to product design, a simple “like” is not enough. How does consumer emotion play a role in developing engaging and successful products on the shelves?

Euromonitor consultant, Carmen Silva, states that fragrance houses, brands and retailers will more greatly leverage AI, AR and VR to drive engagement and immersion with fragrances.

Investigating Fragrance Marketing And Purchasing Trends

Hear market projections from an industry researcher on purchasing, consumer trends, technology influences and more.

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Top 5 Fragrance Articles of 2024

Check out our most popular fragrance articles from the past year.

Fragrances & Moods: New Perspectives

Today we will look at two aspects of the impact of fragrance. The first concerns the effect of perfume in the social context. The second is more individual, covering perfumes and mood, stress level, and relaxation responses.

The fragranced portion of this issue digs into fragrance marketing, shifts in consumer trends and sustainability.

Leading Consumer Demands Shaking Up the Fragrance Industry

The February 2023 issue also digs into better-for-you flavor formulations.

After the two keynote lectures, an interactive creative session in which the audience will hear from four early career perfumers who have created a fragrance from a personal memory will take place.

IFRA UK Fragrance Forum 2023 is Set for Mid-October

The forum will be examining, and unpicking, the interaction between our sense of smell and our brains.

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Fragrance Is Rewiring the Personal Care Experience

The range's functional and biodegradable plant extracts, which are 100% natural in line with ISO 16128, are sustainably sourced from Madagascar, France and Bulgaria, per Symrise.

Symrise Launches Neurocosmetic-inspired Flowerconcentrole for Mood-enhancing Skin Care

Developed using Symrise’s Actimood technology ("a scientifically proven mood-activating scent design," per the company), Flowerconcentrole's neurocosmetic benefits leverage plant extracts to stimulate positive emotions.

Iberchem announced a new site in China is set to be commissioned in 2025 and will feature laboratories, R&D facilities, offices, and manufacturing facilities.

Iberchem SAU 2024 Leaders & Newsmakers

Iberchem shares 3 company highlights from 2023, influencers for innovation in 2024 and beyond as well as company goals.

6 Digital Technology Innovation Debuts in Fragrance in 2023

From artificial intelligence platforms to dosing robots, here are the latest launches.

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Patent Pick: Isopulegol Arousal

We consumers take things too seriously. This is evident from the growing demand for products that boost our morale or relax us. While marketers offer numerous (profitable) solutions, perhaps good, old-fashioned fragrance is the answer; that's what a new patent application suggests.

The platform is comprised of technologies and capabilities helping perfumers to address challenges associated to the “bloom.”

Givaudan Introduces Bloomful Fragrance Platform

The platform is designed to help perfumers address challenges associated to the moment when a fragrance comes to life and gradually fills the room.

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Keep Calm and Smell Linalool: Study Confirms Anti-anxiety Link

Researchers believe that with this study that they can develop clinical applications for linalool scents in treating various anxiety disorders.

The reusable scent cartridge has nine base scents that can be used to create multiple combinations and variations.

OVR Debuts First Spatial Scent Technology for the Metaverse

The patented microtechnology is designed to create nano bursts of scent without heat or fans.

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Emerging Trends Driving Innovation in Fragrance

Managing editor Jenna Rimensnyder shares her taps Mintel analyst to discuss how fragrances will have to adapt to new macroeconomic contexts, and provides insight into the June 2023 issue.

In the pages ahead, you will get an inside look at what key players in the industry have marked as influencers for innovation across flavor and fragrance segments.

The 2024 Flavor & Fragrance Leaders & Newsmakers Issue

Executives from some of the most influential F&F companies provide an in-depth look at the evolving market and provide insight into what's to come.