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Green notes

Perfumery notes. The green trend will continue as more and more new green smelling chemicals are produced.

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Editor's Note: A New Experience

What makes an F&F product memorable? Depth. Layer. Texture. And its coinciding political climate.

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Editor's Note: F&F Advocacy & Communication

How do regulatory, R&D, creatives, marketers and product developers unite under evolving environmental, social, political, cultural, technological and creative landscapes?

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Editor's Note: Strength in Diversity

Consumers continue to request more natural, cleaner, organic, non-GMO and transparently labeled ingredients in their products, which provides the F&F industry an opportunity to look deeper into the "culture" of clean ingredients.

Science Notes: The Research and Patent Wire

Recent advances in flavor and fragrance technology and investigation. A closer look at cocoa: Ducki et al. used headspace SPME and GC/MS to examine the aroma profile of cocoa products. The authors employed a number of temperature conditions and extraction times for maximum recovery.

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Editor’s Note: Growing Beyond F&F

Despite changing consumer demands and regulatory restrictions, the F&F industry is growing and meeting the challenges with innovation.

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Editor's Note: Behind the Scenes

Managing Editor Eden Stuart shines a light on the unsung hero's of the flavor and fragrance industry.

Regulatory Notes: Disclosure Issues in F&F

Protecting formulas, sources and other forms of intellectual property in a thriving regulatory environment. The Fragrance Materials Association (FMA; fmafragrance.org) and Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA; femaflavor.org) recently co-hosted an in-depth webinar on key intellectual property (IP) issues, particularly the protection of formulas when faced with disclosure requests from customers, physicians, the public and other sources.

Perfumer's Notebook: Stability of Fragrance Profile

An essential feature of any well compounded fragrance is its property of maintaining a constant profile during its exposure. This applies to fragrances applied to the skin, as with colognes or perfumes, or exhibited on the surface of toilet soaps. Marked change in profile during exposure may occur through lack of attention to relative evaporation rates of the perfume components. The rate at which a substance evaporates is, of course, a direct function of its vapor pressure, i.e. its tendency to change from liquid or solid to a gas.

Elections in the United States and European Union have ushered in concerns for major regulatory changes.

Editor's Note: New Year, New Regulations

As a new year begins, how will policy changes impact the flavor and fragrance industries?

Regulatory notes: Communicating With Customers About Fragrance Regulatory Changes

The effect of the Seventh Amendment to the European Cosmetic Directive and the California Safe Cosmetics Act on fragrance suppliers and customers. While visiting a fragrance supplier earlier this year, the conversation turned to the challenge of communicating with customers about regulatory changes. In addition to exchanging information about what ingredients might be in a particular fragrance, these conversations frequently touch on the need for the customer to decide either to label or disclose the presence of a particular ingredient, or to reformulate.

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Editor's Note: A Sense of Real Life

The beauty of the F&F industry is how it enhances our day-today life. With the rapid changes to day-to-day life, due to technology, the challenge then becomes how to develop a personal connection with consumers.

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Editor’s Note: A Sense of the Future

The F&F industry is undergoing quite a transformation, which shows clearly through M&A activity and regulatory changes. This issue we look more closely at the direction of the F&F industry’s transformation, and it’s moving up.

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Editor's Note: The Doors of Perception...Lead Us to the Senses

With the evolution of digital technology, the industry is moving into superhuman territory.

RIFM celebrated the publication of its peer-reviewed safety assessments covering over 2,000 fragrance-producing ingredients in the scientific literature.

RIFM 58th Annual Meeting Notes: Highlighting Achievements & Honoring the Late Dr. Robert Bedoukian

The evening event focused on RIFM's ground-breaking research and NGRA programs and highlighted the storied careers of scientists.

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Beyond "Green"

As sustainability has become a buzzword, consumers have grown more aware of issues such as climate change, and so corporations have been compelled to release sustainability reports marking progress toward specific goals. Naturally, cost-management and profitability are also important factors.

Q&A: Going Green with Chemistry

How to implement and measure the impacts of green chemistry in F&F.

FMA Ponders Green Fragrances: a Balancing Act

Defining "green" and "sustainability"; defending safe fragrance ingredients and delivering on consumer demands.

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