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Section: Fragrance > Regulatory & Research

The Future of Fragrance CBI: A Formula for Transparency?

As NGO and regulatory pressure grows for ingredient disclosure and other challenges to intellectual property, North American stakeholders gather to assess opportunities and threats.

Strategic Factors for Business Success in the Flavor& Fragrance Industry

We can see around us much evidence of an accelerating rate of change in technology, economy and politics, and last but not least, of social change, These changes will also affect the flavor and fragrance industry in the 1990s. Nevertheless, it can be said that the middle/long-term (1988-1995) growth outlook is relatively favorable.

Formula for Success: Innovation in Fragrance

The industry’s prospects for the next five years: excess launches, pricing pressures and the perfumer's palette.

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The Case for Fragrance Family Loyalty

Fine fragrance marketing initiatives and sales training continue to ignore the fundamental tie that binds people to their perfume—the olfactory experience of wearing a favorite scent. The fragrance industry continues to dance around the edges of olfactory marketing, but hasn’t gotten religion, investing only half-heartedly in promotional programs based on fragrance families.

The Future for Fragrance in Mass Marketed Products

I believe it is necessary to have early, direct, close contact between the major architects of product quality-the formulator and the perfumer.

Inside Flavors: Real Time Volatile Flavor Release Monitoring and its Flavor/Food Application Using Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrometry

Understanding how aroma compounds interact with and are released from simple and complex foods. Flavors and fragrances usually are complex mixtures of molecules with different physical properties, including volatility, fat solubility and sensorial characteristics, covering a wide spectrum of threshold values. They are usually present in natural extracts or final products at levels in the order of ppb to ppm.

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Are You Prepared for Registration? Specialty Aroma Chemicals Approach Final Finish Line for REACh

December marked the 10th anniversary of the end of the REACh pre-registration phase and the start of the registration phase. This is an important milestone, as the industry faces a final deadline particularly critical for aroma chemicals.

Opinion: Formulating Fragrances for NPA and DfE

Fragrance creators' and manufacturers' challenges and opportunites in meeting criteria

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Endpoint: From Scent Dieting to Flavor Irritants: ‘Wellness’ in F&F

What does the word wellness bring to mind? Sinking into a neck-deep mud bath? Meditating in a swirl of incense? Hitting the gym four times a week? Or maybe crunching away on home-grown, organically harvested vegetables? Recycling, composting, supporting fair trade, etc., all elicit a sense of wellness in some form.

A cloud forest vista in the Ecuadorian Chocó, a mega-diverse and highly threatened tropical forest system.

Mane x TRLP Invest in Plant Conservation for Fragrance Formulation

The Red List Project and Mane discuss opportunities and challenges for fragrance companies in the conservation realm.

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Natural Source Testing for Flavors and Fragrances

In highly regulated marketplaces where mislabeling could have legal and commercial repercussions, a reliable natural source test is critical at the procurement, research and development, product launch and supply stages.

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2018 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

Driven by regulation and marked by innovative technologies paired with a rising demand in natural, this year’s leaderboard addresses the industry’s horizontal growth in an increasing digital, globalized landscape.

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2016 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

An exclusive look at the top companies' financial reports, sustainability strategies, R&D initiatives, M&A activity and more.

Searching the patent literature for flavor and fragrance materials

When searching the perfumery or flavor use of a chemical, novel or not, two places in each classification system should be searched: all organoleptic use class(es), and the chemical per se class. At a minimum, the search should cover the U.S. Classification system, the International Patent Classification, the standard chemical literature (e.g. Beilstein and Chemical Abstracts), and the standard literature of our industry: Bedoukian’s Perfumery and Flavoring Synthetics, Arctander’s Perfume and Flavor Chemicals (Aroma Chemicals) Vol. I and II, and the Fritzsche library bulletin.

Rational Odorant Design: Fantasy or Feasibility?

Exploring the two approaches to rational odor design and the possibilities of each. Why do we strive for rational design of odorants? Since the birth of synthetic organic chemistry in the mid-19th century, fragrance chemists have sought to design and produce fragrance ingredients to supplement those obtained from plant (and formerly animal) sources.

Understanding this analytical method and its role in analyzing botanicals.

HPTLC Fingerprinting for Essential Oil Authenticity

Understanding this analytical method and its role in analyzing botanicals.

Perfumers need to be more comfortable being uncomfortable, explore new ingredient ideas and learn to win with the palette of the future.

3 Change Agents Shaping Fragrance Formulation

How perfumers can best navigate three areas currently having the biggest impact on the fragrance industry.

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F&F Literature Review: Fragrance Release

Recent studies in biotechnology and genetic disposition are shining a light on why consumers crave the F&F products that they do.

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