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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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Fragrance and Dementia

Innovative fragrance therapy is increasingly being used to enrich the lives of those suffering from dementia by supporting engagement, alertness and appetite stimulation.

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Fragrance and Transparency

It is not coming because of any pending legislation, but rather because of a desire from consumers and some consumer goods companies to lift the veil of secrecy from fragrance ingredients.

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Fragrance and Communication

The sense of smell has a powerful influence over our emotions, memories and reactions. For children with profound learning and communication difficulties, smell can help them identify people, places and objects. So, given that olfactory information has a direct path to our limbic system, can it be positively harnessed in an educational environment?

Fragrance and Social Behavior

My research on fragrance and social behavior is concerned with how people use fragrances to create social images and to play social roles. As a social psychologist, I am well aware that people employ a wide variety of strategies and tactics, some subtle and others not-so-subtle, to control the images they convey to others. With the support of the Fragrance Research Fund, we are looking at the role that people’s choices of fragrances (that is, their perfumes, their colognes, their after-shaves) play in the fashioning of images.

Enantiomeric Odor Differences and Gas Chromatographic Properties of Flavors and Fragrances.

Enantiomers of flavors and fragrances show characteristic differences in odor and taste; thus, the enantiomer composition is an important property that should be determined by analytical resolution on a chiral stationary phase in gas chromatography.

Safety Aspects of Flavors and Fragrances

The flavor and fragrance industry has, for a long time, been conscientious about the safety of its products, From the very beginning it has participated in the development of safety evaluations and regulations for flavors and fragrances, both in the US and Europe. In this paper the developments of both flavors and fragrances will be summarized. The difference in approach in these two areas will be discussed, as well as possible future developments.

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.

Heterocyclic Compounds in Flavors and Fragrances Part Ill. Pyridine and Derivatives

During the last two decades the role of heterocyclic compounds in food flavors has been reviewed by several authors (18, 78, 79, 117-122). While furans (66), pyrroles (68), thiophenes (61), thiazoles (62, 63, 120), oxazoles (65, 57), Iactones (64), pyrazines (55, 56) and their reduced systems were periodically treated, surprisingly, pyridines which are among the most widely distributed volatile flavor compounds have not been described in detail (69). Therefore, the purpose of this review is to fill this gap.

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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.

The Relationships Between Emotion, Perfumes and Fragrances

Reading the general literature on perfumery we find remarks suggesting a special relationship between emotion and perfume. However, despite such statements, there have been few actual suggestions as to how emotion and olfaction might be linked. However, there are a few clues and I feel that we can move towards looking to see how the sensory systems of olfaction and emotion come together.

Promoting and Defending Fragrance in the Media

IFRA North America explores the benefits and pitfalls of media engagement and how industry and the public view risk and safety

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The Science and Opportunities of Modern Fragrance

Mood and health enhancement, anosmia frontiers, and beyond.

Similarly to other industries, AI started from applications that are not unique to fragrance, such as analyzing consumer behavior as recorded in e-commerce transactions and social media for the purpose of creating fragrance products that sell better.

Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence in Fragrance

Exploring the growth and potential of artificial intelligence in fragrance formulation.

Effects of Fragrances on Vigilance Performance and Stress

The present project originated in an interest in testing the hypothesis that certain fragrances have an inherent ability to affect peoples’ level of physiological arousal independently of their hedonic properties.

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Creating a Partnership Between Fragrance and Cosmetic Actives

Moderator Rachel Grabenhofer led a panelist of industry leaders during the third day of the 2016 World Perfumery Congress to answer if fragrance houses can tap into the cosmetic actives market.

Opinion: Formulating Fragrances for NPA and DfE

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

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