Flavors and Fragrances(F&F) are the essential ingredients that lend taste and smell,respectively, to food and personal or home care products. Without these, allthe products that we use such as toffees, chips, toothpastes, soaps andshampoos, would be tasteless or odorless, boring, functional products. Flavorsand fragrances are integral components of packaged foods and other consumergoods. Natural and synthetic flavor compositions create the cherry taste ofcherry cola, the cinnamon aroma of pumpkin lattes and the cool mint flavor oftoothpaste. Fragrance compositions add the fresh scent of pine to householdcleaning products and exotic top notes to fine perfumes.
Perfume is a mixture of fragrantessential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents - used to give thehuman body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces "a pleasantscent". Perfumes today are being made and used in different ways than inprevious centuries. Perfumes are being manufactured more and more frequentlywith synthetic chemicals rather than natural oils. Less concentrated forms ofperfume are also becoming increasingly popular. Combined, these factorsdecrease the cost of the scents, encouraging more widespread and frequent,often daily, use.
