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The Last Word: Carol Karahadian: a Lifelong Passion for Flavor Science

Karahadian has spent numerous years working in the industry with a career path that has combined her lifelong passion for science and knowledge of food,

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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.

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Forward Thinking: Fragrances of the Moment

Fine fragrance continues to be a competitive landscape, with a plethora of fragrance applications and choices across all distributions. With a myriad of options, consumers are no longer confined to fine fragrance for a memorable fragrance experience.

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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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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.

Fragrance Trends

Nevertheless, all of these future trends could be modified because of the development and proper utilization of new synthetic products. Modern perfumery today has no room for the sleepy ways of the past. We are all living in the jet age of fragrance marketing. We are all put to the task to keep pace with this puIsating market.

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.

Organosilicon Fragrances

Novel and interesting investigations in the field of the chemistry of odor have been recently described by Wrobel and Warmagat. In their search for new fragrances and for a better understanding of the relationship between the molecular structure and the olfactory propeties of compounds, the authors turned their attention to silicon. The principal approach was to introduce the silicon atom into the osmophoric center of odoriferous materials. A number of compounds have been prepared and evaluated. This article briefly summarizes the synthesis and olfactory characteristics obtained.

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Rethinking Fragrance

Years ago, one could say that a great advertising campaign with a sexy or romantic theme would easily lure the consumer to the counter to make a purchase. The cliché that “sex sells” is not necessarily the case anymore. This article compares the olfactive and retail landscapes of then and now, challenges in the perfumery landscape, fragrance and brand DNA, and more.

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Rethinking Fragrance

From consumer discovery to product formats and unusual notes, perfumery is evolving faster than ever.

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