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Narcissus poeticus: The Heart Note

Olfactive aspects, chemical composition, extraction, economics and ethnobotany

Perfume Garden at Chelsea Flower Show.

"Perfume Garden" Wins Gold at 2009 Chelsea Flower Show

The Perfume Garden has won the gold and most creative award at this year's Chelsea Flower Show in London.

Speed Smelling

Nine perfumers present scents free of creative constraints

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Scent and the Spirit - Sufism’s Fragrance of Love

One of the world’s most sublime mystical traditions, Sufism views scent as the spirit’s essence.

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Traditional and Supercritical CO2 Extraction of the Volatiles from Narcissus poeticus L.

Quantitative and qualitative comparison of yield from the two extraction techniques.

Versailles was a practice in social ritual, royal etiquette and unrelenting opulence. It also happened to stink like an outhouse.

Royalty and Fragrances Part 2: The Scent of Versailles

Part two explores the fragrantly decadent court of Marie Antoinette, where her perfumer, Jean-Louis Fargeon saturated everyone in Versailles.

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The Future of Fragrance: World Perfumery Congress 2016

This year's congress brought together more than 1,100 attendees worldwide to discuss what makes "scents" in fragrance sustainability.

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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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Scent & Spirit: Poisons, Potions and Perfumes

Danger and beauty have always gone hand-in-hand—or in this case, nose-in-heart—when it comes to some of the world’s most poisonous flowers. Here, we take a historical sniff at how oleander, datura and belladonna among others have been used for centuries in fragranced potions; with recent perfumers paying homage to the flowers’ alluring powers in the niche fragrance scene.

Through fermentation, wine emits intricate fragrance accords and flavors that often find similarities with perfume.

Wine & Fragrance

A look at the unique connections and complex notes.

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