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Book Excerpt: Understanding Fragrance Chemistry

In an excerpt from his new book, Charles Sell delves into the forces driving organic chemical reactions in fragrances. Fragrance ingredients are organic chemicals (i.e., chemicals with structures based on carbon) and so their chemistry is part of organic chemistry. Chemical reactions basically occur when instability or imbalance exists in atoms, molecules or ions.

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Inside Fragrance Creation: Sustainable Scents

Two top perfumers provide a guided tour of naturals producer Laboratoire Monique Rémy. “Our business is very simple: take [a botanical] at the right moment, and put it in a form which is available to the perfumer the rest of the year,” says Bernard Toulemonde, general manager of IFF subsidiary and naturals expert Laboratoire Monique Rémy (LMR). “Now you know everything,” he jokes.

The Benefits Of Fragrance Materials

Fragrance is universally recognized for its aesthetic value. Providing a pleasant scent will always remain the primary role of fragrance in consumer products. Yet fragrance provides many other benefits to consumers and to the products to which they are added. Describing these additional fragrance benefits is the focus of this paper.

Compatibility with waxes is a critical consideration when choosing a fragrance solvent.

Choosing the Right Fragrance Solvent

Maximizing performance while meeting sustainability and other consumer-driven metrics is a critical balance.

Japan: A Fragrance & Flavor Journey

A sensory exploration from the WFFC

Fragrances Through Hydrochlorination of Terpenes

Among the reactions that have enriched terpene chemlstry, perhaps the simplest and one of the outstanding is hydrochlorination. This reaction has been used for structural elucidation, for derivatization to identify and/or purify terpenes and for synthesizing perfumery chemicals. How the application of hydrochlorination on terpenes has unearthed the treasure caves of fragrances is a vibrant chapter worthy of portrayal.

Fragrance for Today—and Tomorrow?

Our present situation is that fragrances in today’s products need to be not only attractive to the consumer, but also safe, cost effective, readily available in large quantities, and stable under a variety of conditions.What will the future bring? The answer is very simple, and a repeat of my earlier statement--it is going to bring whatever the consumer wants.

The Safety of Fragrance Materials

When one considers the long history of the use of fragrances, their broad distribution, and the extent of exposure to them, one is impressed with the very few examples of injury to humans that can be attributed to these materials, The only problems reported have been occasional rashes on the skin, and even more specificalIy, light-induced rashes. And yet there is a persistent myth in the cosmetic industry that any problem encountered in the safety testing of a new cosmetic must be attributable to the fragrance component. Only systematic screening of all of the materials used in fragrances by an independent scientic body, and systematic and voluntary conscientious response by the industry to eliminate ingredients shown to cause harm can dispel this myth.

CEO Samantha Mane shared, 'Our consumer insight department is essential for understanding consumer needs globally and driving fragrance innovation.'

MANE 2025 Fragrance Leaders & Newsmakers

The group's chief executive officer gives an overview of the company's achievements from the past year and its plans to leverage digital tools in the future.

Company president Satoshi Masumura shared, 'The need to address mental health challenges will remain critical, so how fragrances augment positive emotional experiences will continue to be relevant.'

Takasago 2025 Fragrance Leaders & Newsmakers

Takasago is focused on maintaining sustainability in all of its operations when it comes to fragrance.

Fragrance: Creativity and the Job

Jeen-Claude Ellena has headed a group of perfumers that have been known for a philosophy of perfumery based on two principles 1. The number of materials that e perfumer can know well end use effectively is limited somewhere in the range of 400. 2. The most effective way to practice perfumery is as a group where a composition is openly discussed with a team as a way of developing the most effective and economical fragrance formula. In this article he explains this philosophy.

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Fine Fragrance: Art or Business

Perfume has always been part of our environment, of our well-being, and will become more and more a sort of defense against the surrounding materialistic world. A touch of fantasy, an element of dream, of escape at “arms reach’’-or should we say “at flagon’s reach.”

Fragrance: “A Celebration of Scentsations”

34th Annual Symposium of The American Society of Perfumers

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Forward Thinking: Fragrances March On

Personalized retail experiences, rejuvenated department stores, celebrity scents, designer releases, limited-edition spoof scents and sustainable fragrances are driving fine fragrance innovation.

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Fragrance Perception: Is Everything Relative?

Recent research presents a leap towards a consensus in fragrance mapping.

U.S. Market of Flavors & Fragrances

The U.S. flavor and fragrance industry occupies a very important place on the world scene (probably between 25% and 30% world market share). There is much confusion, misinterpretation and misunderstanding concerning its real market size and trends, which is due to an inadequate definition of terms and also to bad research and research methods.

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2021 Flavor & Fragrance Leaders & Newsmakers

Executives from several leading F&F companies provide an in-depth look at the last year and trends to come.

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Sesquiterpenoids: The Holy Fragrance Ingredients

One important group of fragrance ingredients found in incense of different origins are sesquiterpene-related molecules. The chemical structures and properties of these materials, including frankincense, myrrh, sandalwood, agarwood and Bursera graveolens, are detailed in this article.

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