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Unilever and Fragrance: Emotion and Function

Marcella Bartoletti on scenting personal, home and oral care brands for a changing world.

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Fragrance Creation: Fragrances for Natural and Certified Organic Personal Care Products

The link between fragrance and health in personal care product development. A recent article in Woman’s Wear Daily reported that organic brands and products based on sustainable resources have become one of the fastest-growing segments in beauty care. In fact, according to the Organic Trade Association, sales of US organic personal care products grew 28% to $282 million in 2005.

Science, Sex, and Fragrance

The fact remains that odors and fragrances can provoke both positive and negative responses. You in your role as purveyors of fragrance can build in many positive responses to a particular product.

Fragrance and Product Functionality

Product development is a horizontal Iinkage between a series of formulation events and consumer reactions. Creativity amounts to a novel association between seemingly unrelated facts. Creative perfumery then becomes the act of providing a fragrance to serve as a logical connection between a concept and a product formula. The concept is eventually translated into advertising and package copy when the product is actually marketed.

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Remove Color, Haze and Imperfections From Your Flavors and Fragrances!

Gusmer Enterprise’s filtration products are the solution to your liquid clarification needs. We offer filter media that aids in the removal of haze, wax, colloidal particles, odors, and color; leaving our customers with a clean, filtered and polished product.

Fragrance for Today—and Tomorrow?

Our present situation is that fragrances in today’s products need to be not only attractive to the consumer, but also safe, cost effective, readily available in large quantities, and stable under a variety of conditions.What will the future bring? The answer is very simple, and a repeat of my earlier statement--it is going to bring whatever the consumer wants.

Current Issues Developments Fragrance and and in the Cosmetics Industry

This paper discusses recent changes in the fragrance and cosmetics market of Japan. Here, fragrance means alcoholic fragrance, such as perfumes and eaux de cologne. This paper also suggests today’s requirements for fragrance and cosmetics and it considers the impact that Europe’s political changes will have on the fragrance and cosmetics industry worldwide.

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Fougere in Colognes, Cosmetics and Soaps, and in Men’s Fragrances

In a previous article we discussed fougère compounds for fine fragrances. The current article will present other types of fougère compounds.

Living legend of India’s Irani Zarthushtis, Aqa Boman Kohinoor, and his son, Afshin, offer incense sticks to the holy Faravar.

Scent and the Spirit: Fragrance in Zoroastrian and Jewish Traditions

From flames of righteousness to scent in scriptures, these two ancient faiths provide an interesting look at the ritual and ceremony behind some of the world’s most coveted ingredients.

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Digitally Delivered Fragrance and the Perfumer

For as long as man has used fragrance, it had one feature that set it apart from all other forms of esthetic decoration, cultural messages, sensory agents and psychological magic: once you presented it, you had lost control over it. It would float wherever diffusion and air currents carried it.

Digitally Delivered Fragrance and the Perfumer

For as long as man has used fragrance, it had one feature that set it apart from all other forms of esthetic decoration, cultural messages, sensory agents and psychological magic: once you presented it, you had lost control over it.

Fragrance and the world around us

Today, a prime fragrance supplier needs a much bigger capital investment than ever before to service customers properly. Why? Much more equipment is needed to provide better stability and longer shelf life, and to comply with an ever-lengthening list of ingredient and manufacturing safety standards and environmental safeguards.

Judgement in Fragrance Creation and Selection

Perfumer's Notebook. This analysis emphasizes the kinds of judgments the perfumer must make in the process of creation of a fragrance. The perfumer must be capable of an imaginative approach, be able to objectively evaluate his work through sound testing techniques, be able to make correct decisions, and have a thorough knowledge of the aroma materials with which he works.

Heterocyclic Compounds in Flavors and Fragrances Part Ill. Pyridine and Derivatives

During the last two decades the role of heterocyclic compounds in food flavors has been reviewed by several authors (18, 78, 79, 117-122). While furans (66), pyrroles (68), thiophenes (61), thiazoles (62, 63, 120), oxazoles (65, 57), Iactones (64), pyrazines (55, 56) and their reduced systems were periodically treated, surprisingly, pyridines which are among the most widely distributed volatile flavor compounds have not been described in detail (69). Therefore, the purpose of this review is to fill this gap.

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Formulating with Natural and Organic Fragrances

The explosive growth in natural and organic personal care products during the last few years reflects a changing society and a concern about what people put into their bodies. There isn't a day that goes by where one doesn't see some reference to the word "natural" or "organic," either in the form of an ad, article or consumer study for food and personal care products.

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.

Honoring Home and Personal Care Fragrance

The 2011 Unilever Fragrance Awards recognize the role of scent in successful brands

Fragrance in Good Times and Bad

Givaudan’s Michael Carlos on how the economic crisis could reshape the industry.

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