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Section: Fragrance > Regulatory & Research

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Scent & Spirit: Shamanism and Scent

What does mysticism smell like? We venture away from the glossy perfume counters of today and into the fumes of the past where our ancestors used scent as a portal to explore transcendence and magic.

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Safety Solutions Make Perfect Sense for Scents and Flavors

Learn how a world-renowned flavors producer is meeting global regulatory compliance, improving efficiency and spending more time doing what they love - creating fun flavors that pass the taste test.

The Sweet Smell of Standards

We can conclude with confidence that the demand for new international standards in the field of essential oils will continue to grow. We need such standards to facilitate world trade and to promote the quality of the products.

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Smelly Signs: A Language for Scent

Part two of the author's World Perfumery Congress speech explores scent semiotics to develop more meaningful and dependable perfumery for the future.

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Safety Solutions Make Perfect Sense for Scents and Flavors

Learn how a world-renowned flavors producer is meeting global regulatory compliance, improving efficiency and spending more time doing what they love - creating fun flavors that pass the taste test.

Study compares Brontide natural butylene glycol to three common diluents.

Genomatica Study Shows Sustainable Diluent Improves Fragrance Performance

Study compares Brontide natural butylene glycol to three common diluents.

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Nasal Cilia: The ‘Long and Short’ of Scent-sation

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have identified patterns in cilia length and function within the naval cavity of a mouse model.

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Too Stressed to Sense: Modern Life and Our Sense of Taste and Smell

Though stress has long been associated with physical and cognitive impairments, recent research suggests that it can also play a key role in how we taste and smell.

Molecular Surface Analysis: A Computer Assisted Search for Structure-Odor Relationship

The purpose of this article is threefold. First, we shall explain how we have adapted the small computer to carry out comparisons between the surface regions of molecules and to identify regions of significant spatial similarity. Secondly, we shall demonstrate how this method was applied to the development of new synthetic cedarwood tobacco flavorants.

Speed Smelling

Nine perfumers present scents free of creative constraints

Synthesis and odor characteristics of some analogs of acyclic sesquiterpenoids

In summary, it could be stated that the crucial factors affecting the odor of the compounds under investigation are the carbon chain structures and type of functional groups. These observations confirm Beets’ thesis that “the profile of a molecule with an easily accessible functional group is responsible for the odor type.

Olfaction Sensitivity in Sleep: The Effects of Fragrances on the Quality of Sleep

A Summary of Research Conducted for the Fragrance Research Fund. Until the series of studies (described below) were conducted only anecdotal accounts but not scientific reports were available concerning olfaction in sleep. We proposed that knowing more about tbe sense of smell in sleep maybe beneficial in terms of safety and in terms of health.

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Stop Making Scents?

The fragrance industry is commonly known for the production of costly perfumes, but its greatest assets are the intellectual properties behind these tangible creations. The most valuable of these are fragrance formulas, any one of which may cost several hundred thousands of dollars and require more than a year to develop.

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Recovering a Sense of Smell

The following literature examines how researchers and physicians are attempting to treat anosmia through nasal implants, gene therapy and honey applications.

Perfumery and the Sixth Sense

I have shown that estratetraenol and androstadienone may be used as components in perfumes and can enhance such products. We are approaching a radical shift in the concept of perfumery. Henceforth, the design of a perfume should take into account stimulation of the long neglected sixth sense, the vomeronasal system.

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Adding Scents to Symbols

Choice-making for people with severe disabilities can be extremely challenging. Here, the authors review the approach, outline the initial findings and consider the implications for this innovative field of study.

Sacrosantol was compared to N-SWO for its safety and skin benefits, using various in vitro models.

Skin Benefits of Sacrosantol: A Reconstituted Sandalwood Oil Based on Natural and Biotechnology-derived Ingredients

Part 2 of 2: Reviewing the study’s comparison of Sacrosantol to naturally produced sandalwood oil.

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IFRA Forum 2017: Scents and Sensibility

This year's forum explored an expansive look at the use of fragrance in packaging, psychology, health and even city planning.

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