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Companies dedicated to sourcing upcycled formulation ingredients are highlighting what’s available while simultaneously supporting a circular and transparent supply chain.

Fragrance Industry Shifts to Repurposed Ingredients to Amplify Sustainability

Investigating the latest sustainability initiative burgeoning within the fragrance industry.

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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.

Strawberry furanone is one of the most important aroma compounds and is used in a wide range of flavors for both food and beverages.

Synthesizing Strawberry Furanone

Comparing industrial routes of strawberry furanone, a critical flavor ingredient.

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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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Reflections of a Retired Flavorist Before He Forgets: Strawberry

The demand for “natural flavors and the availability of “natural ingredients (such as ethyl butyrate, ethyl 2-methyl butyrate, diacetyl, ethyl caproate, hexyl and hexenyl compounds, the aliphatic acids, methyl cinnamate, maltol and furaneol and yC1O and C11 lactones) enable the flavorist to produce a “natural strawberry with a minimum of juice or fruit extractives. It also verifies that Aldehyde C16 is not a necessary ingredient.

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First Person: Hacking Musk Strawberry Flavor

Decoding an exotic botanical close to home.

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Flavor Bites: (E)-2-(3,7-Dimethyl 2,6-octadienyl) cyclopentanone

Overall, this quite complex chemical assumes a surprised resemblance to natural apricots.

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White Peach Juice Extract Joining Crystals Drop Family

Given its Anti-Bacterial and enticing Flavor, White Peach Juice Extract is gaining popularity with both consumers and product developers around the world.

Reflections of a Retired Flavorist Before He Forgets: Peach

Until the natural sulfur components, like p-hydroxy phenyl butanone, are available in a "natural" form, today's flavorist can create more realistic peach and raspberry flavors than "natural" ones.

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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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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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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.

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