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Fragrance Issues: Defining “Natural”

As the first personal care products bearing the Natural Products Association’s seal hit store shelves, an assessment of “natural” fragrances in personal care

Synesthesia is a neuropsychological trait in which the stimulation of one sense causes the automatic experience of another.

Decoding the Synesthesia Fragrance Boom

How perfumers and brands are telling multi-dimensional stories of emerging scents.

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Digitally Delivered Fragrance and the Perfumer

For as long as man has used fragrance, it had one feature that set it apart from all other forms of esthetic decoration, cultural messages, sensory agents and psychological magic: once you presented it, you had lost control over it. It would float wherever diffusion and air currents carried it.

Defending Fragrance in a Transparent World

Highlights from the first annual meeting of the International Fragrance Association North America

The Designer Image—lnternationai Fragrance Style

It has been my attempt to share some of the joy and excitement we feel at Avon in creating new fragrances. I would like to thank all the perfumers for the willing and highly creative cooperation we have always encountered in creating together dynamic new fragrances for the entire world.

Recent Developments in Flavor and Fragrance Chemistry

Recent Developments in Flavor and Fragrance Chemistry, book review. There is a wide selection of topics representing current research in the flavor, fragrance and biochemistry areas. There will be something to satisfy the varied interests of potential readers from the avid organic chemist to the casual historian of the industry.

The fragranced portion of this issue digs into fragrance marketing, shifts in consumer trends and sustainability.

Leading Consumer Demands Shaking Up the Fragrance Industry

The February 2023 issue also digs into better-for-you flavor formulations.

Fragrance and Its Packaging—Dealing with the Subliminal

Perfume containers have been created as art throughout the centuries. Museums and private collections abound with exquisite examples of perfume flacons from renaissance to art deco. Perfume bottles have been designed both to please and amuse the consumer and to contain and connote the essence itself

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Technology Decisions Challenging the Flavor and Fragrance Industry

If there is one thing that successful technology companies have in common it is marketing and public relations. One can hardly read a business-oriented magazine today without seeing either a technology advertisement or self promoting article. But how is a layman to separate fact from fiction?

Design and Creation of a Successful Major Fragrance

This discussion of the design and creation of successful major fragrances will deal with tbe subject from the standpoint of fragrance planning and evaluation by a major marketer. I see this as a creative process, not as a science, but as an art--an artistic process which should have as its end not only a work of beauty, but a fine product which will make a major contribution to the profit picture of its marketer.

Textile Materials With Fixed Cyclodextrins As A Fragrance Depot

The ability to semi-permanently infuse fabrics with finished fragrances and/or fragrance materials opens up a new realm of formulation and application possibilities for perfumers. The market has already seen the introduction of scented pillows and the like, but Buschmann et al.’s recent work presents the possibility of (washable) scented sportswear, linens, upholstery and many other household products that may be customized at will, and which may intake unpleasant odors while imparting pleasant ones.

Current Issues Developments Fragrance and and in the Cosmetics Industry

This paper discusses recent changes in the fragrance and cosmetics market of Japan. Here, fragrance means alcoholic fragrance, such as perfumes and eaux de cologne. This paper also suggests today’s requirements for fragrance and cosmetics and it considers the impact that Europe’s political changes will have on the fragrance and cosmetics industry worldwide.

Jack DiMaggio, MD, global fragrances and flavors, Colgate-Palmolive.

WPC PREVIEW: Defining the Winners and Losers in Fragrance’s Future

Jack DiMaggio on relevant innovation, differentiation and revising cost structures.

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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Fragrance Futurology: 10 Ways Farm-to-Table Will Impact Perfume’s Next Decade

"Farm-to-bottle" is the obvious evolution of today’s global appetite for perfumery naturals. Watch out for some of the supply chain subtleties so you don’t get left behind.

Scent and Component Analysis of the Hybrid Tea Rose

The hybrid tea rose as a group is one of the major modern roses cultivated as a garden rose today. It was developed and has been bred since the latter half of the nineteenth century by cross breeding the hybrid perpetual rose with the tea rose.

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Fragrance Trends: Global Fragrance -- Not Making Scents

The fragrance industry faces declining sales, increasing competition and a shorter shelf life. Valued at $25 billion last year, the global market for fragrance continues to flounder, with sales increasing at a rate that is slower than the average growth for the industry as a whole (see T-1). Why is this market proving to be such a challenge?

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The Global Fragrances Market – Bringing Fragrances Closer to Consumers

The demand for premium fragrances has bright days ahead, but traditional brands (especially luxury designer brands) will need to adapt to face the growing competition from niche and “indie” players.

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