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Ru Supported Catalysts Testing in the Preparation of p-Isopropylcyclohexylmethanol

Optimizing the reaction conditions for this key aromatic material.

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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.

Versailles was a practice in social ritual, royal etiquette and unrelenting opulence. It also happened to stink like an outhouse.

Royalty and Fragrances Part 2: The Scent of Versailles

Part two explores the fragrantly decadent court of Marie Antoinette, where her perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon saturated everyone in Versailles.

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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.

Adesmia Boronioides, also called Paramela belongs to the family of Fabacea. It is a small bush that grows up between 0.4 and 2 meters high.

Inside Paramela Essential Oil: Perfumery Usage, Chromatographic Profile and Chemical Composition

The olfactory profile of this oil is unusual and very interesting with great tenacity and fixation.

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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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Synthesizing Mayol from Cuminaldehyde

The authors discuss two distinct preparations of the widely used muguet ingredient from cuminaldehyde.

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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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.

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.

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.

2012 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

Acquisitions, raw material price pressures and an uncertain economy make for a mixed picture

A Fracas about Fragrance

The uneasy application of copyright to perfume

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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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Patenting Fragrance Isomers

Making very small changes to a molecule's structure can lead to patentable fragrance compounds.

Defending Fragrance Ingredients

SFP and IFRA host a discussion with perfumers surrounding the escalating pace of European regulation.

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