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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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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

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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Patenting Fragrance Isomers

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

Classification of Perfumes and Fragrances

Every year, about 200 new fragrances appear on the market. However, many of them disappear within 10 years. It could be worthwhile to classify existing perfumes and fragrances with the aim to gain more knowledge and to stabilize the market.

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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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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.

Fragrances With Real Impact

Focusing development on fragrances that correlate with different consumption habits. This article presents a basic study identifying which fragrance aspects in women’s prestige perfumes cause consumers to reach out for specific products.

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Fragrance Outlook: Noir to Niche

From “black” fragrances to limited-edition scents, the future of perfume lies in the unique and surprising. drom fragrances’ Tribeca (New York) fine fragrance studio is unique for a number of reasons, including its open floor plan and perfumers’ bar—a sort of shared work space that encourages interaction among noses.

In fine fragrance, gourmand notes 'need to be less straightforward and are used to reinforce pleasure and longer-term well-being, as opposed to a temporary satisfaction,' says Xavier Renard, head of fine fragrances Europe, Givaudan.

Gourmand Fragrances of the Future

Far from a passing fad, sugary sweet scents are here to stay.

NEXT: Fine Fragrance’s New Reality

The economic crisis is rapidly changing the way the fragrance industry operates; Karyn Khoury explains why that’s a good thing and how suppliers and marketers can reconnect and re-engage with consumers.

The dynamics of fragrance marketing

Fragrance suppliers have traditionally developed fragrances with limited knowledge of the components which characterized the total package. We would like to see the 1980s emerge into an era in which we will be afforded the opportunity of developing highly specialized fragrances; ones which would be finely tuned to and illustrative of the "total package" concept.

Perfumer POV: Fragrances for Troubled Times

The financial crisis will affect our everyday work, but not necessarily in the way we may think.

What Makes a Successful Fragrance Launch

I like to think that we do the same. But one thing is sure: we couldn’t have done it without the perfumer. Time and again, perfumers take our words and descriptions and purple prose and give them life, For that, we are very thankful.

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