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Endpoint: Relentless Hope

Developing new ways to improve the delivery and duration of flavors and fragrances is a constant struggle for F&F developers. This review takes a look at some of the ways it's done.

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Novel Non-beer Flavor Applications of Hop Oil Fractions

Application in fruit, beverage, dairy, savory and other categories.

Volatile Character-Impact Sulfur Compounds and their Sensory Properties

Volatile organic sulfur compounds are important constituents for the flavor of food, beverages and natural isolates. These character-impact sulfur compounds are, often in a certain low concentration, characteristic for the sensory properties of the material.

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Raw Material Bulletin: May 2016

This month's column features the latest ingredients, including methionyl butyrate, hop essence fraction, 2-ethylbutyric acid and more.

This month's editor's note is keeping it cool, calm and collected as P&F uncovers the essential sensations of mint and oral care.

Editor's Note: Keeping it 300

This month's editor's note is keeping it cool, calm and collected as P&F uncovers the essential sensations of mint and oral care.

Dana Daneker Gasiorowski, creative director, cross category North America, principal flavorist, IFF

Flavorist Dana Daneker Gasiorowski Embraces Curiosity in her Work

Gasiorowski approaches her flavor applications with an open mind and encourages budding flavorists to think outside the box.

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Forward Thinking: Hair Flair, Fragrance and Care

Hair colorants, customized hair products and innovative hair care applications inspired by skin care are providing new opportunities and challenges for fragrance houses and consumer packaged goods manufacturers.

Progress in Essential Oils: Rhododendron Anthopogon Oil

This month's article discusses the chemical composition of Rhododendron anthopogon Oil.

According to NielsenIQ data, the categories with the largest U.S. in-store growth were candles/fragrance oils, fragrances and deodorant, while online growth leaders were slightly reshuffled, led by deodorant, candles/fragrance and hair care.

Beauty Retail 2024 & Beyond: Shoppers, Inflation & Promotions

According to Circana’s Larissa Jensen, promotion in mass and prestige beauty is relatively low compared to accessories, footwear and apparel.

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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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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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