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Site Visit: Ernesto Ventos, Barcelona

Spanish essential oil heritage and new specialties

Flavor Bites: 2-Phenylacetic Acid

Fruit, nut, savory, alcoholic and other flavor uses.

Book Excerpt: Production-friendly Flavors

Tips on avoiding production delays and rejection by customer QA

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Flavor Bites: "Made for China"

The Chinese flavor market has integrated a number of outside influences, but it still quite strongly reflects the traditional cuisine.

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Ensuring the Future of Boswellia

With thousands of new customers demanding more from fewer trees, both trees and harvesters face a multiplicity of challenges.

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Editor's Note: Nature’s Sensory Bounty

One of the most valuable aspects of the F&F industry is its close proximity to the natural world and the hands that cultivate, distill and formulate its essences. How are you telling these stories to the world?

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Flavor Bites: trans-2 Hexenol

Featuring a distinct apple characteristic, the ingredient provides a green profile without a trace of the usual leafy notes and contributes to a finished flavor's authenticity.

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Flavor Bites: Lauric Acid

Though largely used in dairy flavor applications, lauric acid with its mild long-lasting taste effect and mild odor can also be used in a range of savory, fruit and fermented flavors.

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The Juice: Calice Becker

The perfumer’s perfumer, Calice Becker talks about her signature style, the role of fragrance in people’s lives and adapting to the evolving fragrance industry.

Labeling of Alcoholic Beverages

Early in 1975, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms of the Treasury Department proposed regulations regarding the labeling of Wines and Distilled Spirits. These proposals followed m earlier set of regulations concerning Beer and Malt Beverages, with a hearing on this scheduled for February, 1975. Because of the inter-relationships among these classes of taxed beverages, the Beer/Malt Beverage hearings were rescheduled to be in close proximity to the others, and all finally took place during April, 1975.

Thugs, Bugs and Vanilla

Madagascan politics and a virulent crop disease highlight vanilla’s tenuous supply conditions.

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Flavor Bites: Methyl Jasmonate

Potential application areas in flavor formulations—mint, floral, berry, tea and more.

Schiff Bases — A Primer

The flavor and fragrance industry uses many classes of chemicals, including a number that otherwise are encountered only rarely outside of organic chemistry textbooks. A good example is Schiff bases, named for their discoverer, German chemist Hugo Schiff (1834-1915). A Schiff base, along with by-product water, is formed by reaction of an aldehyde with a primary amine.

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The Ritual of Bathing

Whether we wish to simmer in the scented suds of our personal bathtubs or sweat it out with the crowds at the banya, we are truly seeping in tradition and ritual… all the while honoring ancient practices.

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Flavor Bites: Propenyl Guaethol

With its ability to be about 20 times stronger than vanillin, this ingredient works well in brown flavors at low levels or can be used in combination with vanillin.

Base-catalysed of terpenes

We have projected in the foregoing survey significant advances in the isomerisation of terpenes by base catalysis. Invoking this technique, it si seen how many of the delicate reactions are smoothly accomplished, adding new dimensions to terpene technology. How terpenes, which are notoriously sensitive to thermal and proton impact, have been engineered in the desired direction through base catalysis is an important chapter in the history of terpene chemistry.

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.

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Biogenesis of a Perfume

The main idea in perfumery is not to make a perfume you or your collaborators would like, but rather to make a successful perfume. Remember Louis Amic’s quote using a poker machine as imagery for a perfume’s five elements; name, fragrance, bottle, distribution and financial support.

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