Walking into a home, you notice the fresh scent of a beach wave in the entry way, the aroma of baked gingerbread in the living room, and the tantalizing fragrance of fresh cut flowers in the kitchen. You are a recipient of the hard work of fragrance manufacturers who labor to entice your olfactory senses to reawaken old memories and to help you build new ones.
Flavor manufacturers provide businesses with artificial, natural, and combined natural/synthetic blends to give their products the perfect blend of flavor to make your product marketable. Fragrance suppliers infuse scents into a large multitude of products from candles, to hair care, to lotions to household products.
To find the right flavor and fragrance vendors for you:
1. Make sure that you understand the flavor compatibility with your desired finished product. Does the texture and product itself match the flavor you are trying to infuse it with?
2. Discuss the storage conditions of your product to ensure that what is put on the shelf at a store will keep its fragrance or flavor long enough for the consumer to purchase and enjoy it.
3. Choose a flavor or fragrance manufacturer that suits your budgetary needs.
Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done
Understand the science behind the fragrance and flavor industry
What is only a scent or a flavor to us, is a complex chemical description to the scientist creating the formula. Flavor and fragrance suppliers are the industry experts in finding the correct chemical balance to provide manufacturers the taste and smell to their products.
I recommend: Companies like
Spectra Flavor & Fragrance Research, LLC wonderfully explain the scientific process used by flavor manufacturers and fragrance manufacturers.
Utilize hands on flavor and fragrance suppliers
Companies such as Flavor Knowledge System (FKS), Inc. encourage their consumers to be completely in the know about their products and services. Their Flavor Creator(TM) 3.50 is also now available to help give you a skeleton to start on your flavor creation.
I recommend: FKS is one of the few fragrance and flavor suppliers to offer their clients training to create their own flavors.
Check out one of the newest flavor and fragrance suppliers
Agilex Flavors and Fragrances comes to you as one of the newest flavor and fragrance distributors.
I recommend: Agilex came about after the consolidation of six well known fragrance and flavor suppliers. They have assembled a talented, dynamic group, and they are ready to prove themselves in the industry.
Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide
- When shopping around for flavor & fragrance companies, ask about their latest innovations. You might be pleasantly surprised if they have a technology that could blow away your competition.
- Don't rule out the little guy. A smaller manufacturer may be just the right fit for your company's need.
The official source of Flavor and Fragrance Suppliers is
the Flavor and Fragrance Suppliers page at Business.com
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