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Forward Thinking

Read Amy Marks-McGee's Perfumer & Flavorist column, which focuses on the parallel relationship between fragrances and flavors.

 

Perfumer & Flavorist 1/12

Forward Thinking: A Note on Fragrance, A Feminine Point of View
By Amy Marks-McGee

A focus on rose, love, life and gold carry feminine fine fragrance trends

"Ingredient stories, compelling marketing themes and attention-grabbing packaging are conventional methods brands use to differentiate themselves, create emotional connections and gain market share. This year, rose, gold, love and life are the resonating themes impacting the women's fine fragrance market."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 10/11

Forward Thinking: Au Naturel
By Amy Marks-McGee

From botanical beauty products to raw, vegan fast food drive-thrus, natural and organic trends are affecting fragrances and flavors

"While there is no globally harmonized definition of "natural" in the fragrance and flavor industry, many companies are moving ahead and creating their own interpretations of these kinds of products. The most interesting new products evolving in the "natural" segment are botanicals, organic, vegan and raw."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 8/11

Forward Thinking: You Are What You Eat
By Amy Marks-McGee

Promising culinary ingredients with beneficial health properties emerge as key components in flavored and fragranced products

"Today, the term is often used by consumer packaged goods manufacturers to market their functional flavored and fragranced products including food, beverage and beauty care products. This phrase helps highlight and communicate beneficial culinary ingredients for the inner and outer body. Caviar, argan oil, yumberry, kombucha and spirulina are a few examples of promising food ingredients that manufacturers and marketers are currently using in products on both sides of the flavor and fragrance industry."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 4/11

Forward Thinking: Beauty Inside and Out
By Amy Marks-McGee

Health and wellness applications take center stage

"In an article in the January 2009 issue of Perfumer & Flavorist magazine titled "The F&F Horizon: 2009 and Beyond," I predicted "the convergence of health care and nutrition with personal care products and cosmetics is the future. Lines will blur as ingestible products that promote beauty from within enter the market. Consumers are searching for functional products that deliver nutritional, pharmaceutical and beauty benefits." Two years later, health and wellness continue to be popular buzzwords on consumers' lips. Now there are a plethora of market products that address consumers' needs for functional products that promote overall health, wellness and beauty from within."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 3/11

Forward Thinking: It's Citrus
By Amy Marks-McGee

From standbys lemon, lime and orange to yuzu, bergamot and blood orange, citrus remains one of the most vital elements adding zest to the flavor and fragrance market

"Common citrus ingredients such as lemon, lime and orange are often used to flavor or fragrance consumer packaged goods. Citrus connotes refreshment and adds zesty and effervescent sensations to both flavors and fragrances. Traditionally citrus has been expected in juices and the ready-to-drink market (RTD), and it has been used predominately in household and functional products. Today, however, citrus is widespread and accepted across markets."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 11/10

Forward Thinking: Aloe and Agave Redefined
By Amy Marks-McGee

From tissues to detergents to cocktails and beyond, new applications breed new sensory experiences with healthy positioning.

"Aloe vera and Agave americana are both perennial, succulent plants that at first glance look alike. Controversies aside, aloe and agave are impacting the fragrance and flavor industry, crossing categories and turning up in many new product launches."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 9/10

Forward Thinking: Turmeric, an Emerging Ingredient
By Amy Marks-McGee, Trendincite LLC

Novel applications from beverages to personal care

"Turmeric, also known as Indian saffron (haldi), is a ground root related to ginger that is grown in India and other parts of Asia and Africa. It is described by iFood as having a "peppery, warm and bitter flavor and a mild fragrance slightly reminiscent of orange and ginger." This versatile ingredient is widely used as a natural food colorant, cooking spice and herbal supplement."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 6/10

Forward Thinking: Fruit of the Vine
By Amy Marks-McGee, Trendincite LLC
Wine and grape seed extracts will continue to be explored for their health properties as new delivery systems and alternative market segments are concurrently developed, creating opportunities for both the flavor and the fragrance industries

"Grapes are known for their antioxidant properties and health benefits. There has been an increased interest in grapes, particularly those used in wine. Manufacturers are launching an array of alternative and innovative consumer products and services using wine in a variety of foods and beverages, as well as in beauty products."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 3/10

Forward Thinking: Get Your Vitamins
By Amy Marks-McGee, Trendincite LLC
Health benefits where you least expect them

"Vitamin products are not new; they have existed since the early 1900s. However, new applications and delivery systems are emerging-from functional beverages and fortified foods to vitamin injections-as consumers seek new methods to get their daily dose of vitamins."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 1/10

Forward Thinking: Bring Home the Bacon
By Amy Marks-McGee, Trendincite LLC
From cocktails to candy to candles, bacon flavor and aroma offers opportunities for innovation

"Q: What do the following items have in common: restaurant menus, cookbooks, confections, ready-to-drink products, personal care products, fashion and design, and technology?
A: One ingredient: bacon."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 11/09

Forward Thinking: Fountain of Youth 2.0
By Amy Marks-McGee, Trendincite LLC
Sprayable, drinkable and wearable antiaging solutions at the frontier of product development

"There is a plethora of antiaging products available-and it's not just skincare. New launches range from makeup to hair care to fine fragrance to nutraceuticals to cosmetotextiles."

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Perfumer & Flavorist 1/09

The F&F Horizon: 2009 and Beyond
Consolidation, core lists, raw materials, the economy, growing customer demands, all things green, and functional flavors and fragrances

"The convergence of healthcare and nutrition with personal care products and cosmetics is the future." - Amy Marks-McGee, Trendincite

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Perfumer & Flavorist 1/09

3 Key Trends for 2009
By Amy Marks-McGee, Trendincite LLC

"Products and services that are multisensorial, green, or functional are going to shape the fragrance and flavor industry in 2009 and beyond."

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