A Vanilla Story

Did you know that most of the time, when you smell a vanilla fragrance, you’re not smelling real vanilla at all? Most of the time, you’re simply smelling one of the major molecules that make the vanilla scent: vanillin. And you’re missing the complexity of the...

A Sandalwood Story

A few years ago, the supply of sandalwood really became a problem. The star of the warm woods, the Indian white sandalwood, had been decimated by overexploitation, it had become almost unaffordable and hard to find. Synthetic molecules, although they allow interesting...