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You will have to learn to use these materials not only in alcoholic dilution (as for fine fragrances) but also in several applications as these are offered to the consumers

Ask An Expert: Building Your Relationship with Fragrance Materials

Senior perfumer Serge Oldenbourg returns for part three of his four-part series.

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Upholding the World's Most Ancient Fragrance Tradition

When it comes to fragrance tradition, India is where it all began. Krishnaraj Iyengar features one of the country’s oldest traditional perfumeries upholding the country’s millennia-old scented legacy.

Bertrand Duchaufour shares that he came to perfumery because of a passion for fragrances when he was a teenager through a girlfriend who was passionate about perfumes.

One-on-One with AMAFFI Perfume House Perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour

Duchaufour shares how he came to the fragrance industry, how the job of a perfumer has evolved over the years and more.

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Royalty And Fragrance: A Tale Of Two Palaces, Part 1

In our Scent and Spirit edition, part one of this two-part series explores the lush fragrances of the sultan’s court of the Deccan era in India from 15-1700s.

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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The Future of Fragrance: World Perfumery Congress 2016

This year's congress brought together more than 1,100 attendees worldwide to discuss what makes "scents" in fragrance sustainability.

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Non-Alcoholic Solvents in Multifunctional Fragrances

By replacing alcohol as the carrier solvent with biology-based hydrocarbons (BBHCs), it becomes possible to design and manufacture entirely novel multifunctional products that straddle the line between perfume and beauty care while carrying an “all-natural” certification.

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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.

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.

The androgynous bottle is inspired by Samā‘, a sacred whirling dance of the whirling dervishes listed as intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

Behind the Scenes of an Independent Perfumer's Crowdfunded Scent Launch

The perfumer discusses the artistic project, building a soliflore fragrance as well as the nuances of its creation.

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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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New Niche: Simple or Simplistic?

From simple packaging to simple product names, the trends in niche fragrances are seeing a growing demand for minimalism. Are the fragrances themselves following a similar path when it comes to formulations?

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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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