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Vanilla: Challenges and Opportunities

As part of our continuing online conversation, we offer the first in a series of Web Exclusive insights on the state of vanilla today and over the next 12 months.

Thugs, Bugs and Vanilla

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

Grown in Madagascar, vanilla CO₂ brings complexity and richness to fragrances.

Perfumer Notes: Vanilla CO₂

Grown in Madagascar, vanilla CO₂ brings complexity and richness to fragrances.

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Vanilla Curing

The senescent decline of a ripe vanilla bean and the birth of vanillin.

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Forward Thinking: Sweet on Vanilla

Vanilla is a tried-and-true flavor and fragrance that connotes warmth and comfort. In flavor, it’s most commonly used in ice cream and confections. In fragrance, it crosses categories including air care, fine fragrance and personal care.

Optimizing Vanilla Sourcing

How ethical sourcing practices can optimize cultivation, curing and the business of vanilla for growers and suppliers

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Forward Thinking: Enchanted By Vanilla

Consumers still have a sweet spot for this tried-and-true flavor and fragrance.

Vanilla 2003: First International Congress

From candles to body sprays, air fresheners to ice cream, vanilla’s increasing ubiquity has made it a key flavor and fragrance component. This growing popularity, then, gives rise to a whole series of issues involving commercial markets, sourcing, regional variations in product, extraction, analysis and authentication, and synthesis, among many others.

The vanilla market in Madagascar has been impacted by the adoption of natural flavors and climate change.

Vanilla’s Perpetual Crisis

Understanding the factors that play crucial roles in supply chain instability.

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Vanilla Enters the World of Genomics

Within the last few years, the development of new DNA sequencing technologies has revolutionized the study of crop plants. New technologies are now available that provide high-throughput DNA sequence coverage at low cost, making their application to smaller crops possible. Two research groups are currently applying these new technologies to Vanilla planifolia to study some of the important issues with Vanilla, such as disease susceptibility and vanillin biosynthesis.

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Processing Vanilla inside Madagascar

More than 140 years after Wilhelm Haarmann and Ferdinand Tiemann synthesized vanillin from pine bark, Symrise has unveiled a vanilla extraction facility in Benavony, Madagascar, which combines the company’s ingredient heritage with contemporary technology and sustainability initiatives.

Twenty-five Years of FEMA Vanilla Research

The inherent composition of a natural product such as vanilla may change over the years, and the growing sophistication of would-be adulterators may lead to novel attempts at "stretching" vanilla. The methods of analysis must therefore be periodically updated to reflect current conditions and to maintain their effectiveness.

Last Word: Vanilla, Ethics, and Market Drivers

A conversation with Scott May, VP, global sweet goods, Givaudan

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The State of Vanilla

Confections, candles, baked goods, fine fragrances, ice cream, lotions, sodas, oral care, snack foods: vanilla is arguably one of the most popular flavor and fragrance materials.

Vanilla: Anything but Plain

Mike Fasano outlines the complexities and nuances of vanilla extracts

There is a focus on the protection of both critically endangered and endangered fauna and flora, such as Bornean orangutans.

Forest Regeneration and Vanilla Cultivation in Indonesia

Increases in deforestation result in decreases in sequestration of carbon dioxide, leading to a loss of crucial ecosystem services.

Forward Thinking: Sweet on Vanilla

Vanilla has warmed its way into flavorists' and perfumers' palettes as a classic, yet on-trend ingredient

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New Approaches to a Sustainable Vanilla Supply Chain

What solutions are available to industry as concerns grow about the traditional supply chain’s sustainability?

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