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Rose Oil in Kashmiri India

An emerging cash crop benefits industry and local agribusiness.

Flavors and Fragrances as Functional Ingredients

Flavors and fragrances have a shared heritage, a common raw material base (natural products) and common technologies (extraction and distillation). Until recently, however, the flavor and fragrance industries were moving in different directions. Now there is a coming together, with common challenges. Now we talk about “functional ingredients,” as opposed to flavors and fragrances.

iso-Valeric acid makes a subtle, but very useful, contribution to hazelnut flavors at 100 ppm.

iso-Valeric Acid in Dairy, Brown, Nut, Savory, Alcoholic Drink & Fruit Flavors

The profile of iso-valeric is very much stereotypical of the primary cheese odor, without any hint of the faint goaty character that starts to creep into the series of aliphatic acids from six carbon atoms upwards.

Tobacco accords are often used as a warm, rich and slightly sweet base note.

Consumer Preferences Are Redefining Tobacco's Role in Flavor and Fragrance: Q&A with Tobacco Flavorist Manoj Arora

The chief perfumer and tobacco flavorist of Sacheerome discusses how trends towards health and wellness are applying to tobacco flavors and fragrances.

Raw Material Bulletin: July 2014

This month's raw materials include hyssop oil, rose Istanbul, 3-nonen-2-one, acerola extract and more.

Menthone

An aroma chemical profile, menthone.

2-Phenylethyl Alcohol: An Aroma Profile

Phenylethyl alochol is a higher aromatic alcohol characterized by a delicate fragrance of rose petals starting at 20 ppm.

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Orris: A Star of Inspiration

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

Tetrahydrofuran and Tetrahydropyran Derivatives as Odor Substances

In summary, over the past few years many terpenoid THF and THP derivatives have been both synthesized and characterized in nature. Some of them have been shown to demonstrate unique sensory properties, and together with their stability, they have attracted the attention of even the most fastidious of perfumers

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The state of: Bois de Rose and Linalool ex Bois de Rose

Bois de Rose and the highly coveted natural linalool that it produces has faced years of sustainability difficulties. New sustainable production methods are broadening its contemporary usage once again.

Roots: the earliest history of the essential oil industry

Modern technology, from the time of Robert Boyle (1627-91), father of modern chemistry, is relatively familiar. But the fifteen centuries from the first century A.D. until Boyle, when many of the first efforts were made to develop the science and tools used today, tell a story that if unfamiliar, though fascinating. Many personalities, ideas, and cultures played a unique part in the birth and youth of modern sciences upon which we now draw for familiar products.

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Progress in Essential Oils: Rosewood or Bois-de-Rose Oil

This month's column discusses the chemical composition of rosewood oil.

Turkish Rose Oil

Nowadays, the production of rose oil and rose water is confined almost solely to the Isparta and Burdur provinces of Turkey. Hence, rose oil has been produced in Turkey for over a century. Initial production by cottage industry was largely replaced by modern industrial techniques, with the establishment of the first large distillery in Isparta in 1934.

Tunisian Rosemary Oil

The distillation of essential oils is a centuries-old tradition in Tunisia. The field production of rosemary oil, as practiced today, was introduced to Tunisia by the French in the nineteen thirties.

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Inside Fragrance Creation: Sustainable Scents

Two top perfumers provide a guided tour of naturals producer Laboratoire Monique Rémy. “Our business is very simple: take [a botanical] at the right moment, and put it in a form which is available to the perfumer the rest of the year,” says Bernard Toulemonde, general manager of IFF subsidiary and naturals expert Laboratoire Monique Rémy (LMR). “Now you know everything,” he jokes.

An anatomy of rose

One should remember that the chemicals reported may not always be desirable to use. They may be artifacts or production or analysis. After reviewing the chemicals at one's disposal, one should be able to determine which constituents are characteristic and which are playing only a supporting role. The importance of being intimately familiar with the character and performance of each chemical cannot be overemphasized.

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Turkish Rose Oil Research: Recent Results

ose oil was produced by hydrodistillation from fresh flowers of Rosa damascena Miller. (Turkey and Bulgaria are the two main producers of this precious material.) Results of the analysis of Turkish rose oil produced by the Gülbirlik Cooperative in the past 16 years are provided in this article.

Turkish Rose Oil Research: Recent Results

Rose oil was produced by hydrodistillation from fresh flowers of Rosa damascena Miller. (Turkey and Bulgaria are the two main producers of this precious material.) Results of the analysis of Turkish rose oil produced by the Gülbirlik Cooperative in the past 16 years are provided in this article.

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