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The company believes upcycling might just be the next trend in fragrances. While artichoke, cauliflower, leek, asparagus, and onion may not be ingredients that inspire much romance, these new innovations resonate with major consumer trends in Asia Pacific, an important and fast-growing fragrance market.
— Read more in From food waste to fine fragrance: How upcycled ingredients meet consumer demands for sustainability and naturality at Cosmetics Design Asia.
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A prospective class action filed in a New Jersey, US court last week has become the latest case mounted against fragrance giants Givaudan, Firmenich, International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) and Symrise.
The lawsuits follow the announcement of investigations by antitrust authorities in Switzerland, Europe, the UK and the US into suspected pricing collusion earlier this year.
— Read more in Lawsuits mount against Givaudan, Firmenich, IFF and Symrise amid fragrance antitrust investigation at Cosmetics Business.
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Shares in Givaudan and Symrise were hammered today after the Swiss antitrust agency named them as part of a quartet of companies in the crosshairs of international competition watchdogs.
Swiss competition commission COMCO said its probe was targeting market leaders Givaudan, domestic rival Firmenich, which is merging with Dutch chemicals group DSM, US-based International Flavors & Fragrances and Germany's Symrise.
— Read more in Switzerland joins global cartel probe into $5-billion fragrance market at RTE, or see Fragrance firms hit by price cartel probe at AFP via Yahoo.
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Water used in restaurants to clean food. With the help of technology, we are able to source water used to clean, say, strawberries or orange and distil it to use in perfume-making. It's a sustainable process and the smell you get is very close to the natural smell, so helps in experimenting more.
— Perfumer Philippine Courtiere of Symrise on materials she is experimenting with. Read more in Meet the French perfumer who likes to experiment with water used for cleaning food at Mint.
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Chromatography analyses showed that out of 133 natural and synthetic ingredients tested, the technology induces a variation in the analysis results for 118 of them: 93 being difficult to quantify, 25 being difficult to identify.
In the main, according to Symrise, 40% of tested raw materials were affected by Cryptosym and 29% of them were completely “encrypted” by the technology.
— Fragrance and flavor company Symrise has developed a colorless and odorless base that blurs the results of gas chromatography, making it harder to copy a fragrance. Read more in Symrise blurs chromatography analyses to protect their fragrances at Premium Beauty News.