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Section: Fragrance > Personal Care/Beauty

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How Scent and Hospitality are Redefining the Experience Economy

As ambient scent-scaping becomes increasingly sophisticated, unique wellness offerings are integrating fragrance in surprising and visionary ways.

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Streamlined collaboration: FRICKE and EFF improve manufacturing efficiency

Improve your fragrance and flavor production with FRICKE's innovative Dosingstar, enhancing efficiency and precision. Learn more at the World Perfumery Congress 2024 / Stand no. 512!

The new ICATS courses are written by a team of industry experts and academics with decades of experience in the aroma trades.

ICATS Adapts Learning Platform to Support Continued Aroma Trade Education: Q&A with Education Officer

The revamped website includes interactive tools, such as discussion boards and downloadable resources, to enhance the student experience.

Morgan shared, 'With OCTAVIA MORGAN Los Angeles, my goal is to offer sophisticated, gender-inclusive scents that elevate the senses while respecting well-being and the environment.'

OCTAVIA MORGAN Los Angeles Emphasizes ‘Thoughtful Formulation, Transparency and Sensory Experience’: Q&A with CEO, Creative Director

A member of the 2023 cohort of Ulta Beauty’s MUSE Accelerator program, Octavia Morgan built her brand to include signature blends and clean ingredients.

Progress in Essential Oils

Lawrence discusses the composition of Indian and Australian sandalwood oils.

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Forward Thinking: The Natural Evolution

Scrutinizing labels is the new norm, and consumers continue to be increasingly selective about the ingredients that they will use in their products. This has led to many innovations in natural skincare, deodorant, hair care and fine fragrance products.

Unilever and Fragrance: Emotion and Function

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

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Progress in Essential Oils: Myrica Gale

Adored by beavers, once found in beers of north western Germany during the Middle Ages and used as an effective insect repellant or a perfumery ingredient, myrica gale oil's constituents can shed new light to formulators on other ways it can be used in F&F.

Fragrances are among the most highly tested ingredients in the consumer marketplace and, through constructs such as the RIFM, our industry has long promoted the safe use of fragrances.

Fragrance Policy And Regulation Advances & Efforts

Understanding recent updates in ingredient policies in cosmetics, testing and fragrance.

Natural and Organic: the Emerging Revolution

What’s driving the biggest dynamic shift in the F&F industry? Imagine a world in which the price of gasoline is 25 cents a gallon, where Starbucks Frappuccinos are nutritious and contain no calories, and you actually like your mother-in-law. Unrealistic, perhaps, but for those involved in the organic world, and organic personal care specifically, the announcement in August 2005 that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will allow for USDA certification of personal care products was received with equal disbelief.

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Topics in Perfumery: Creating Effective Natural Fragrances

What’s driving the contemporary fragrance consumer and how perfumers can overcome obstacles to deliver on the promise of “natural”. “As we stand at the brink of a second nuclear age and a period of unprecedented climate change,” the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking recently stated, “scientists have a special responsibility, once again, to inform the public and to advise leaders about the perils that humanity faces.” With dire predictions such as this and the realities of life, no wonder that there exists an atmosphere of stress and anxiety throughout society.

Chinese customers, notably Gen Z, increasingly see skin care as a long-term investment and are willing to spend more money on high-quality goods.

Prestige Beauty is China’s Next Growth Engine

So far, in more than a year, Shiseido has sold 15 mass and cosmetics brands, which further signals that Shiseido is concentrating on more prestige and premium business segments.

Comparing Notes: Complexity, Performance and Natural Effects

Perfumers Olivia Jan and Donna Ramanauskas discuss guaiacwood, jasmine sambac and oxathiane for fine fragrance, personal care and consumer product applications.

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The Art of Perfumery: An Orchidia Education

"Ooh, smell this!" she delights, twisting the cap off a new shampoo discovery, and leaning into her shopping companion. "It smells so good. It reminds me of (pause) something ..."

This year, BeautyWorld Middle East continued to cater to fragrance creators, distributors, and retailers with a vast selection of offerings, featuring an impressive array of fragrance compounds, perfumed candles, incense sticks, solid perfumes, and room fragrances.

Fragrance Innovation Shines at Beautyworld Middle East 2024

See event highlights, key conference discussions and the announcement of 2025 dates.

We're in the beginning stages of the educated or informed consumer; which is a consumer who will eventually and ideally be looking beyond typical buzzwords like 'clean' or 'safe' in their purchasing.

3 Ways the F&F Industry Can Connect & Educate Consumers

Managing editor Jenna Troyli's editor's note for the February 2024 issue.

Pheromones, the natural chemical signals our bodies emit, can influence how we perceive and connect with others, especially in romantic contexts.

The Impact of Fragrance on Enhancing Pheromones and Attraction

Fragrance developers are experimenting with natural and synthetic pheromones in their formulations, and new research indicates they’re onto something.

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OQEMA adds Oud to its Naturals and Essential Oils Range

With its traditional roots and expanding popularity, oud oil is becoming a common ingredient in cosmetics, personal care and fine fragrance products.

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