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香りの科学

香りの科学

Can a Small Catalyst Make Ambrox?

A confined small-molecule catalyst favored the desired ambrox stereochemistry. Yield, selectivity, solvent recovery, and environmental limitations remain distinct questions.
香りの科学

Can We Selectively Make a Jasmine Fragrance’s Molecular Form?

Enzyme and chemical reactions selectively produced a Jessemal stereoisomer, with a 95% final-step yield but 18% overall yield.
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Can Fabric Release a Floral Fragrance Little by Little?

Hydrolysable profragrances increased measured fragrance concentrations above cotton after one and three days, without testing perceived strength or consumer preference.
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Can Yeast Produce More of a Key Patchouli Aroma Compound?

Engineering enzymes, pathways, and PDR12 improved patchoulol recovery in yeast. Reported titers came from the dodecane phase, not purified product or total culture content.
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Can 13 Compounds Recreate the Aroma of Tahitian Vanilla?

A 13-compound reconstruction resembled Tahitian vanilla across seven attributes rated by 11 panelists, but the test did not establish sensory equivalence.
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Can a Green Note Make Vanilla Smell More Like Rum?

A green-smelling compound enhanced vanilla’s rum-like character in expert assessments and changed cultured-cell receptor responses, without proving a direct perceptual mechanism.
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Do Natural Fragrance Ingredients Have a Smaller Environmental Footprint?

A life-cycle assessment of 27 fragrance ingredients shows why production processes and assessment methods matter more than origin labels alone.
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Can We Identify the Origin of Anethole in Essential Oils?

Composition and carbon isotope measurements helped investigate anethole origins, while hydrogen isotope ranges alone risked misclassifying natural variation.
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Does a Higher Price Guarantee Essential Oil Quality?

Analyses of citrus oils bought mainly online found that price and natural claims alone did not establish composition, purity or authenticity.
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Can Orange Essential Oil Testing Be Faster and Use Fewer Resources?

A faster chiral GC-MS method retained useful orange-oil information while reducing analysis time, electricity and helium use.