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Defending Fragrance Ingredients on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Why is REACH registration so critical to the fragrance industry? Because if ingredient suppliers do not properly register perfumery’s “crown jewels,” the aromatic character of legendary fragrances such as Chanel No. 5 could be at risk.

Mood Benefits Fragrance

The profiles presented here illustrate that fragrances can have measurable and distinctive effects on our mood in ways that could prove beneficial for the user. We believe that further improvements in our measurement techniques, and a better understanding of the mood changes evoked by specific perfumery ingredients will allow for the development of more impactful mood-aftering fragrances.

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Mood Benefits of Fragrance

IFF developed an interest in aromatherapy in the early 1980s as a potential means for imparting a stress-reducing benefit to fragrance. Aromatherapy is an age-old practice of applying the healing benefits of certain aromatic essential oils. In the traditions of aromatherapy, specific essential oils are stress reducing, whereas others are energizing, and still others can have either effect, depending on the user's state of mind/body interaction. We reasoned that the best way to study the stress-reducing properities of fragrance would be to investigate their physiological effects.

The study's primary finding—even the highest-end users of fragranced products have extremely low exposure to fragrance.

Inside RIFM's Fragrance Ingredient Exposure Paper

P&F+ connected with the study's authors to discuss the finer points of the study's results and what it means for fragrance industry professionals and consumers.

This article was provided by Chemlinked and compiles information on the major countries that have regulations on fragrance allergen labeling and their specific labeling requirements.

[updated] Fragrance Allergen Labeling Requirements in 7 Regions + 45 EU Additions

This article from Chemlinked compiles information on major regions with regulations for fragrance allergen labeling and their requirements. Legislation in progress also is mentioned. [Update: On July 26, 2023, the EU added 45 new entries to the Annex.]

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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.

Schiff Bases — A Primer

The flavor and fragrance industry uses many classes of chemicals, including a number that otherwise are encountered only rarely outside of organic chemistry textbooks. A good example is Schiff bases, named for their discoverer, German chemist Hugo Schiff (1834-1915). A Schiff base, along with by-product water, is formed by reaction of an aldehyde with a primary amine.

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Chemical Characterization of Vanilla pompona Scheide, Part I

In this four-part series, researchers extensively study the composition of Vanilla pompona for fragrance applications. Here, existing literature on V. pompona is reviewed and compared with V. tahitensis and V. planifolia. Test protocols for GC-MS and DTD-GC-MS are described, and some results are discussed.

International Perfume Standards Program

In summary, we determined that it was necessary to have a fresh fragrance oil quality control standard representative of the quality of oil available in any given overseas location. We recognize that ensuring worldwide quality required a central location to evaluate and approve the initial samples of oils before being purchased around the world. Once an initial quality was determined, it was necessary to assure that each location had access to a fresh quality control standard representing this quality. A procedure was then set up to assure annual replacement of quality control standards.

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Royalty And Fragrance: A Tale Of Two Palaces, Part 1

In our Scent and Spirit edition, part one of this two-part series explores the lush fragrances of the sultan’s court of the Deccan era in India from 15-1700s.

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Simplifying the Assessment of Aromatic Chemicals

This article examines the use of science and technology in fragrance safety and development through computer data and systems.

GC-FT/lR and the Analysis of Aromatic Essentials

In the area of instrumentation one can hope for the emergence of more. intense energy sources, a higher transmitting light pipe, and improved electronics; all resulting in significant reduction of sample size requirements. We would hope that current research efforts in GC-FT/IR-MS continue and that that type of dedicated instrument appears in the commercial sector.

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The Future of Fragrance: World Perfumery Congress 2016

This year's congress brought together more than 1,100 attendees worldwide to discuss what makes "scents" in fragrance sustainability.

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Frankincense Geopolitics, Trade and Transparency, Part 1

In a comprehensive overview of the frankincense industry, the authors discuss the global trade in frankincense and its sociopolitical impact.

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Fragrances and Fragranced Products: A Strong Alliance

The powerful appeal of many soaps, detergents and cleaning products to consumers is often directly related to the products’ scents. Producers and suppliers of cleaning products understand that an amazing amount of research and innovation goes into the creation of product fragrances and that fragrance ingredients are at the leading edge in the defense of protections for trade secrets.

Social Interaction and Fragrance Use: Personal Fragrance Use

A Summary of Research Conducted for the Fragrance Research Fund. Despite the widespread use of personal fragrances and their assumed influence on social behavior, there has been little research documenting such influence. The goal of the proposed study was to provide such documentation, to understand the role fragrances play in determining social behavior.

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F&F Literature Review: Value-Added Materials

What do 1,3-propanediol and flavor have in common? And how are skin sensitization assessments evolving past animal-free testing? Find out the latest in value-added materials.

Organosilicon Fragrances

Novel and interesting investigations in the field of the chemistry of odor have been recently described by Wrobel and Warmagat. In their search for new fragrances and for a better understanding of the relationship between the molecular structure and the olfactory propeties of compounds, the authors turned their attention to silicon. The principal approach was to introduce the silicon atom into the osmophoric center of odoriferous materials. A number of compounds have been prepared and evaluated. This article briefly summarizes the synthesis and olfactory characteristics obtained.

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