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Putting on the Spritz: Beverage-Inspired Fine Fragrances

Fine fragrances raise a glass to the flavor world with scents inspired by classic beverages and cocktails.

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Profiles in Perfumery: “I’m an Indie”

Mandy Aftel’s “do-it-yourself” philosophy and focus on natural perfumery have resulted in a successful, unconventional fragrance career. Vanity Fair magazine has called her the “Angel of Alchemy,” but what Mandy Aftel, founder of Aftelier Perfumes, does is more simply explained. She makes scents for solid and liquid perfumes, face and body care products, custom perfumes, and more.

Perfumer Laurent Le Guernec

Learning to Let Go: Perfumers and Teamwork

Formulation insights from IFF perfumer Laurent Le Guernec.

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Natural Instincts: Global Trends in Women’s Fragrances

Emergence of aromatherapeutic, antioxidant-rich and “free from” formulations.

María Ángeles Santiago, senior perfumer, Iberchem

Iberchem Senior Perfumer María Ángeles Santiago Discusses Exciting Trends & Timeless Formulations

Santiago also shares advice for new perfumers and the evolution of the industry.

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Forward Thinking: Hair Flair, Fragrance and Care

Hair colorants, customized hair products and innovative hair care applications inspired by skin care are providing new opportunities and challenges for fragrance houses and consumer packaged goods manufacturers.

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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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Editor's Note: A Greener Heart

This issue, we get to the heart of one of the flavor industry’s ingredient concerns: adulteration in garlic oil. Due to its prevalence in countless savory products, garlic oil’s purity is an ongoing topic within the industry. Additionally, Christophe Laudamiel, perfume sculptor, shares his thoughts on educating both future perfumers and consumers for a more sustainable, more mindful fragrance industry.

Steady Progress in China’s Aromatics Industry

China’s perfumery industry is among the nation's fastest growing sectors. The Chinese factories need to consolidate and bring in foreign technology and management skills to upgrade their production. To raise production and improve quality, the country’s leading perfumeries are seeking funds and technology from other countries.

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State of Fragrance Through 2018: The Rise of the Niche Fragrance

Niche fine fragrance segment has added more than $240 million to the fragrance market since 2014.

Organosilicon Fragrances

Novel and interesting investigations in the field of the chemistry of odor have been recently described by Wrobel and Warmagat. In their search for new fragrances and for a better understanding of the relationship between the molecular structure and the olfactory propeties of compounds, the authors turned their attention to silicon. The principal approach was to introduce the silicon atom into the osmophoric center of odoriferous materials. A number of compounds have been prepared and evaluated. This article briefly summarizes the synthesis and olfactory characteristics obtained.

Sparkling Fragrances

The intersection of wine and perfumery

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Patenting Fragrance Isomers

Making very small changes to a molecule's structure can lead to patentable fragrance compounds.

Marriage of a Fragrance

If you do come up with the right idea, then you’ve got to find the fragrance that matches that idea and that’s a second hurdle that sometimes becomes difficult, I will describe an idea that was great, and a fragrance that didn’t marry well to that idea. The result of this mismarriage is at best a short term success and at worst a total failure. So, matching that fragrance becomes a second key hurdle.

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The Global Fragrance Market

Compared to beauty and personal care, fragrances experienced a renaissance in mature markets in the face of a fresh consumer desire to differentiate, while simultaneously gaining new adopters in rapidly advancing emerging nations.

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Perspectives on Citrus

The presence of citrus notes in the life of a perfumer.

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Fragrance Creation: Finding Signature

Perfumer Cecile Krakower discusses olfactive identity, the complexities of the development process and decoding fragrance vocabularies.

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Fragrance Viewpoint: Cinematic Coffret

Fragrance envelope pushers Christophe Laudamiel and Christoph Hornetz translate a new film into 15 essences. There is much talk in the perfume industry regarding the abundance of lackluster fragrance releases. Although this is much to the consternation of all, it’s no wonder; after the terrorist attacks in September 2001, the issue of safety has become acutely prevalent in our culture, almost to the point of pathology.

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