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  New President’s chosen charity

  June 16th, 2020

  We are pleased to announce that our new President Peter Malton has chosen Abscent as his chosen charity of the year. Abscent are a charity set up to help those who have lost their sense of smell and work to help these people with smell training. Smell training has been demonstrated in over a dozen […]

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  Virtual IFRA UK forum 2020 and book launch now available to watch for free

  October 22nd, 2020

  IFRA UK has been holding conferences called the Fragrance Forum, since 2011, and highlights of these from the past presenters have now been compiled into a book, which is really worth getting if you have even a passing interest in olfaction and the cultural, artistic and scientific fields olfaction touches.

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  Thoughts on Stimulating Creativity in Perfumery

  One rainy Sunday morning, sipping a cup of earl grey tea, and snuggled in my favourite armchair I was listening to a Podcast by economist Tim Harford, that really grabbed my attention: It was called “The power of messiness”, and was exploring ways to give your creativity a boost.

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  What Happens When a Perfumery Ingredient is Banned?

  What happens when a perfumery ingredient is banned? By Penny Williams. Imagine a word is banned, imagine the word "fair" is no longer allowed to be used. There are several replacement words you could use, so whilst this is annoying, is it really a big deal?

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  Message from the President – Peter Malton

  July 27th, 2020

  Message from the President – Peter Malton Dear Members, We wanted to update you with our current plan for events over the coming year. Due to the current Covide-19 situation all future events for the remainder of 2020 will be run online. This has given us an opportunity to put on events that we would […]

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