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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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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.

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Bringing Transparency to Fragrances in Cleaning Products

"This is a core piece of our corporate responsibility program and committment to transparency as a wholte at Clorox," says Aileen Zerrudo, the company's director of corporate communications. "We felt that we wanted to address that interest [by consumers] in knowing what's in cleaners."

Application of Biotechnology to the Perfumery Industry

Here, I wish to suggest the future contributions of biotechnology to the perfumery industry by introducing the studies done in the past and also some newer techniques, such as recombinant DNA cell fusion, bioreactor and tissue culturing.

Il. Scientific Prospects from 1.5 Million Responses

Our collaboration with the National Geographic Society on the Smell Survey is particularly gratifying. As scientists, it is part of our responsibility to inform the public. And as researchers, it is our hope to tap ever greater sources of information about human physiology and behavior. I believe these two goals are beautifully intertwined in this project.

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American Society of Perfumers Announces 2018 Board

The ASP has announced its board for 2018. Among the appointments include Vincent Kuczinski to the role of president.

Airzai CEO, Airzai Muneeb Mushtaq, testing Firmenich fragrances made for Airzai Aroma.

Firmenich Announces Partnership with AI Startup Airzai

The partnership's mission is to co-create emotional scents to reinvent fragrance design through augmented creation.

The fragrance and flavor sectors are in the vanguard of the shift to green chemistry.

IFRA Examines F&F’s Path to Green Chemistry

A look at current and prospective routes to green chemistry initiatives.

A chemometric study of human odor perception

Thus this work suggests that, from this data set, the human odor sensory spectrum can be. explained by the existence of a two-dimensional continuum with the coordinates (odor) of a molecule determined by its directed dipole and electron donor-acceptor ability. This result is pleasantly straightforward and makes a trained expert’s ability to distinguish thousands of different odors reasonable.

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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.

Aromatherapy: Do Essential Oils Have Therapeutic Properties?

A pleasant odor has always been, and still is, an important factor for people to feel good, and feeling well is synonymous with good health. Therefore, we can conclude that all substances which are able to create a certain amount of well-being and well-feeling possess therapeutic properties and, therefore, can be called therapeutic agents.

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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Categorizing Attar-type Fragrance Products for QRA

An exposure assessment, in support of the proposal to categorize these products in the framework of the RIFM/IFRA QRA for skin sensitizers.

English speakers predominantly use source-based descriptors to describe scent.

How Fragrance Brands Put Scent into Words

Reframing the relationship between language and perfumery.

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WPC Update: Hotel & Registration Rates Now Posted

2016 World Perfumery Congress hotel and registration rates are now available.

IFRA Code of Practice 40th Amendment

The International Fragrance Association (IFRA) has published the 40th Amendment to the IFRA Code of Practice.

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