Essential Oils Industry Books

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Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin

Author: Steffen Arctander
Hardcover: 736 pages
Publisher: Allured Pub Corp
Copyright: 1994
ISBN: 931710367
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Who Will Find This Book Essential?

Important reference on natural fragrance materials!

Do you have a passion for natural essential oils? This is a must-have book.

Reviewer

Arctander's book Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin has remained an industry "Bible" for decades for good reason: there is nothing comparable on the market. His breadth and depth of knowledge of the culture, extraction, organoleptic properties, market and, ultimately, how the natural aromatic could be used in fragrance or flavoring is unsurpassed. As a perfumer, educator and host of a group that studies natural perfumery, I instruct everyone who wants to study perfumery to "get Arctander's book, there is no substitute".

Product Description

Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin contains practical descriptions of available materials, their origin, production and processing, appearance, odor and flavor type, evaluation, application and availability with brief notes on their main constituents, replacements and most common adulterants.

This unique treatise is divided into two parts. The first is a clear set of definitions and processing methods that are used to isolate the natural products described in the book. The second part, which is the meat of this text, is a series of more than 500 monographs on crude and processed perfume and flavor materials of natural origin including both vegetable and animal-based products. Examples of materials contained in this text are items of rare usage such as agarwood oil, flouve isolates and civet products for the perfumer and horseradish oil, lemon petitgrain oil to tagetes oil for the flavorist. In addition all of the commonly used natural materials can be found in the text. An appendix conta

Table of Contents

1.0 Definitions and methods of processing

2.0 Monographs an raw materials (600 pages)

3.0 Tonnage of world production of important natural perfume and flavor materials

4.0 Value of world production of the most important natural perfume and flavor materials

5.0 Location of the most important centers of production with respect to tonnage

6.0 Location of the most important centers of Production with respect to value for the local community

7.0 Grouping of the natural materials according to the odor type and suggested use

General Index

French-German-Spanish condensed index