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Flavor Bite: Linalool

This flavor mainstay, when used at various levels, fits an extremely wide range of tea and fruit flavor profiles.

This month’s column digs into recent scent trends and collaborations in the growing candle industry.

Forward Thinking: Candle Scent Trends & Seasonal Staples

This month’s column digs into recent scent trends and collaborations in the growing candle industry.

Photo Album and Highlights: CSA Roundtable, Elections

New raw materials, 2008-2009 board in place

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Raw Material Bulletin: April 2016

This month's raw materials features natural vanillin extract clove, methyl anthranilate, 2-methylbutryaldehyde and more.

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Flavor Bites: Anisyl Alcohol

Found naturally in Tahitian vanilla beans, the ingredient is an interesting floral note that can be used in a variety of brown, fruit and dairy flavor applications.

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Flavor Bites: Geraniol

The rose character of geraniol is very bright and fragrant but it also possesses considerable depth, which is especially helpful in flavors.

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Organoleptic Characteristics of Flavor Materials April 2018

This month’s column features discussions on cis>-p-menthan-7-ol, 2,6-dimethyl pyrazine natural, cocoa decolorized (PG), whiskey CO2 extract and more.

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Flavor Bites: Methyl Anthranilate

Dislike of methyl anthranilate at high levels should not blind us to the multitude of subtle but intriguing influences that are possible with this chemical.

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Fragrances and Fragranced Products: A Strong Alliance

The powerful appeal of many soaps, detergents and cleaning products to consumers is often directly related to the products’ scents. Producers and suppliers of cleaning products understand that an amazing amount of research and innovation goes into the creation of product fragrances and that fragrance ingredients are at the leading edge in the defense of protections for trade secrets.

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Fragrance Trends: Global Fragrance -- Not Making Scents

The fragrance industry faces declining sales, increasing competition and a shorter shelf life. Valued at $25 billion last year, the global market for fragrance continues to flounder, with sales increasing at a rate that is slower than the average growth for the industry as a whole (see T-1). Why is this market proving to be such a challenge?

Social Interaction and Fragrance Use: Personal Fragrance Use

A Summary of Research Conducted for the Fragrance Research Fund. Despite the widespread use of personal fragrances and their assumed influence on social behavior, there has been little research documenting such influence. The goal of the proposed study was to provide such documentation, to understand the role fragrances play in determining social behavior.

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Forward Thinking: The Food & Beverage Industry Gets Lit

Consumers’ growing demand and interest in the rapidly evolving cannabis industry are giving rise to new CBD-infused food and beverages as well as cannabis-focused retail, foodservice and hospitality industries.

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The Global Fragrances Market – Bringing Fragrances Closer to Consumers

The demand for premium fragrances has bright days ahead, but traditional brands (especially luxury designer brands) will need to adapt to face the growing competition from niche and “indie” players.

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Fragrance Research: The Multi-sensory Approach to Fragrance Creation

Modern research techniques unveil the power of fragrance in communicating with consumers. Modern brands are tuning into the senses, realizing that the correct sensory combination results in an emotional connection with consumers that is a powerful driver of success in the marketplace. People navigate their lives and make choices by using the five senses.

The company is planning to recruit expert perfumers in the United Kingdom, United States and India to work across the global portfolio of brands.

Inside Unilever’s New Fragrance House: Q&A with VP of Fragrance

Vivek Sirohi discusses the decision to create Unilever’s own fragrance house and what that means for the company going forward.

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Fragrance Creation: Fragrances for Natural and Certified Organic Personal Care Products

The link between fragrance and health in personal care product development. A recent article in Woman’s Wear Daily reported that organic brands and products based on sustainable resources have become one of the fastest-growing segments in beauty care. In fact, according to the Organic Trade Association, sales of US organic personal care products grew 28% to $282 million in 2005.

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Fragrance Handbook: Creating a Winning Candle Fragrance—From Brief to Manufacture

Addressing the three “C’s” of formulation: cost, compatibility and cold throw—plus a candle fragrance glossary. “Air Care—US,” a Euromonitor report released last winter, detailed this $2 billion-plus market, which grew 6% between 2004 and 2005. Within this segment, candles jumped 30%—more than any other category—to sales of $265 million.

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State of Fragrance Through 2018: The Rise of the Niche Fragrance

Niche fine fragrance segment has added more than $240 million to the fragrance market since 2014.

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