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Patenting Fragrance Isomers

Making very small changes to a molecule's structure can lead to patentable fragrance compounds.

Defending Fragrance Ingredients

SFP and IFRA host a discussion with perfumers surrounding the escalating pace of European regulation.

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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.

The Benefits of Fragrance

The luncheon speaker at the Symposium was Dr. Morley Kare, who provided an educational and most captivating presentation on the subjects of taste and smell.

Fragrances & Moods: New Perspectives

Today we will look at two aspects of the impact of fragrance. The first concerns the effect of perfume in the social context. The second is more individual, covering perfumes and mood, stress level, and relaxation responses.

Fragrance Market in Japan

In this paper, I will explore the reasons that have prevented the Japanese fine fragrance market from expanding. Also, I will consider the relationship between consumer lifestyle and fragrance as well as the Japanese preference of fragrance.

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The Benefits of Fragrance

The following is a statement adopted by the International Fragrance Association to confirm the current and historical importance of fragrance in the lives of global populations. It was issued on March 21, 2000.

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Fragrance with Antiaging Benefits

Traditional aromatherapy has claimed that essential oils have activity on the skin but only recently has research substantiated that essential oils can act as actives in cosmetic products.

Axel Schnuch, University of Goettingen

Allergy Prevalence in Fragrance

Despite self-regulation, the fragrance industry still faces continual public health pressure from regulators and other stakeholders seeking to ensure that its products do not cause allergic reactions. A workshop by the International Fragrance Association discusses these issues.

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Mood Benefits of Fragrance

IFF developed an interest in aromatherapy in the early 1980s as a potential means for imparting a stress-reducing benefit to fragrance. Aromatherapy is an age-old practice of applying the healing benefits of certain aromatic essential oils. In the traditions of aromatherapy, specific essential oils are stress reducing, whereas others are energizing, and still others can have either effect, depending on the user's state of mind/body interaction. We reasoned that the best way to study the stress-reducing properities of fragrance would be to investigate their physiological effects.

2011 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

As growth returns, challenges persist

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