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To come up with the next big things for the nose or taste bud, fragrance-and-flavor companies send their scientists on "scent treks." On a recent trip to Papua New Guinea, Roman Kaiser, director of smell research for Givaudan, collected more than 50 samples, including a rare hoya plant...
Subha Patel, Kaiser's counterpart at IFF, has journeyed to Kenya and Guangzhou in China. In Southern India, she drew smell samples from cardamom flowers, local tea and fresh red clay. In lieu of bringing back buckets of samples or dead flowers, Patel records her findings chemically. Her primary tool...
However tough the competition, the industry is united in one concern. Development, says Subrenat of the World Perfumery Congress, is endangering its raw materials. India has lost thousands of acres of its sweet-smelling sandalwood trees, for instance, over the past decades. If that trend continues, it will be even...
Over 90 percent of practicing physicians accepted gifts or payments from pharmaceutical companies, according to a Harvard Institute of Health Policy study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study revealed that most physicians received drug samples or small gifts, such as pens or mugs, over a...
As well as using carbon dating and infrared analysis, Charlier employed the unusual technique of olfacation, or sniffing. In a blind test, two smell experts from French perfumeries Guerlain and Jean Patou whiffed samples of burnt wood, decomposed bones and skin, and noted the odors. "The smells weren't all...