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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?

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Pyrazines for Fragrances

Although pyrazines are applied mainly to flavors, some select materials make an excellent fit for fragrances.

Marriage of a Fragrance

If you do come up with the right idea, then you’ve got to find the fragrance that matches that idea and that’s a second hurdle that sometimes becomes difficult, I will describe an idea that was great, and a fragrance that didn’t marry well to that idea. The result of this mismarriage is at best a short term success and at worst a total failure. So, matching that fragrance becomes a second key hurdle.

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.

Fougere in Fine Fragrances

Fougère in Perfumery.

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

2015 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

In this series of interviews with top executives at leading F&F houses, companies expressed that raw material price concerns are less prevalent now than in years past, although the industry is becoming more competitive as acquisitions consolidate the industry and regulatory burdens mount.

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The Fragrance of Paradise

The perfumer recently took some time to discuss the ways in which his interest in multimedia projects has informed his perfumery, his creative process, the subjectivity of fragrance, signature and the state of the fragrance industry.

Safety/Testing of Fragrances

The fragrance industry enjoys a good reputation as a remarkably safe industry: the incidence of reported human injury problems is very low. With all of the groups mentioned above continuing as guardians of fragrance safety, albeit from differing points of view, the record can only improve in the future.

Fragrance As a Trademark

Perhaps you or your clients should ask your trademark attorney to do an intellectual property audit of your inventory of product ideas for potentially protectable fragrance marks. The next time your customer smells your product, will they think of you?

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Multidimensional Fragrances at Home

How the technical, hedonic and cost factors of the laundry and home care categories are changing the way fragrances are developed.

2014 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

Perfumer & Flavorist magazine’s 2014 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard ranks the top companies in the industry. It also includes select exclusive insights from key executives on the state and future of the industry.

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Ingredients of Fragrance Innovation

Rose, ingredient evolution and niche formulations— highlights from the Elements Showcase

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2016 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

An exclusive look at the top companies' financial reports, sustainability strategies, R&D initiatives, M&A activity and more.

Science, Sex, and Fragrance

The fact remains that odors and fragrances can provoke both positive and negative responses. You in your role as purveyors of fragrance can build in many positive responses to a particular product.

In the July issue, readers will hear from key players in the flavor and fragrance industry regarding recent strides over the last 12 months, key factors shaping innovation and impacts of evolving regulatory updates.

Trailblazers in Flavor & Fragrance

Managing editor Jenna Rimensnyder pens her editor's note for the 2023 Leaders & Newsmakers issue.

The emerging fragrance consumer

As a perfumer once told me, the success of a fragrance is cerebral, not nasal. This is another way of saying it is a message for the brain to appreciate--and this is where Vogue comes into its own.

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