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Emerald Kalama Chemical’s Expanded Portfolio Addresses Latest Fragrance Trends

Earthy, natural, floral, fresh and citrus notes all play an important role in today’s fine fragrances, personal care and household products.

You will have to learn to use these materials not only in alcoholic dilution (as for fine fragrances) but also in several applications as these are offered to the consumers

Ask An Expert: Building Your Relationship with Fragrance Materials

Senior perfumer Serge Oldenbourg returns for part three of his four-part series.

Unsaturated Trimethyl Undecanals -- Chemistry and Odor

Floral notes in formulation

Industry luminary: Remembering Jack Friedman

A family member recalls Friedman’s influence, both professionally and personally. When my uncle Jack Friedman passed away this past August, it was a double loss for family members who also related to him on a business level. We knew him as a kind but firm mentor and as the driving force at the helm of Florasynth Inc. for more than 50 years.

Fresh Marine Notes

1-Methyl-4-(4-methyl-3-pentenyl)cyclohex-3-ene-1-carbaldehyde and its dihydro derivatives.

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PFW's Patchwood Perfumery Contest

PFW Aroma Chemicals B.V. has launched Patchwood, a new aroma chemical that is powerful and woody, with a fresh ozonic top note and camphoraceous, leathery impression.

Ambrofix is inspired by the more well-known, yet entirely evasive material, ambergris.

Perfumer Notes: Ambrofix

Ambrofix is inspired by the more well-known, yet entirely evasive material, ambergris.

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Raw Material Bulletin: February 2016

This month's column features valencene, 2-heptanone natural, thialdine and more.

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Forward Thinking: Fragrances Spring Forward, Part 1

Current fine fragrance activity is being driven by experiential retailers, custom fragrance technology, natural fragrances, gender-fluid launches, hero ingredients, eye-catching packaging, book releases and beverages using scents to enhance the olfactory experience.

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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.

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Forward Thinking: Fierce Fragrances

Fine fragrance activity is being driven by new entrants, fashion designers, pop culture icons and entertainers and wearable scents. Novel packaging, fragrance focused retailers and interactive scent experiences continue to attract consumers.

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2016 Flavor & Fragrance Leaderboard

An exclusive look at the top companies' financial reports, sustainability strategies, R&D initiatives, M&A activity and more.

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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.

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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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?

Topics in Perfumery: Magnolia and Lily of the Valley

A continuing meditation on the art, craft, materials and techniques of fragrance creation. I have thought quite often that I am lucky because I live on the outskirts of Barcelona. Visitors believe that Barcelona is very beautiful—and it really is—but unfortunately most people just visit downtown.

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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.

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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