The perfume industry manufactures and sells fragrance products made from mixtures of aromatic essential oils, synthetic aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents, most often sold in liquid form to give the body, objects, and living spaces an agreeable scent. Modern perfumery depends heavily on a small number of specialist chemical suppliers, with Givaudan, International Flavors and Fragrances, Firmenich, Robertet, Takasago, and Symrise together dominating the global production of synthetic aromatic compounds and each patenting new synthesis processes every year. France and Italy remain long-standing centers of perfume design and commercial fragrance production, with the Grasse region of southern France especially significant to the industry's history and present-day operations. Alongside synthetic ingredients, natural extracts drawn from flowers, woods, and animal sources continue to play an important role in fine fragrance composition.
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Why is the French town of Grasse so closely tied to the perfume industry?
Grasse is a world leader in natural fragrance production and the industry dominates its local economy.
Grasse is described by Encyclopaedia Britannica as a world leader in producing natural fragrances for the perfume industry and flavourings for food manufacturers. The industry dominates the local economy, even though it is largely controlled by multinational groups. Roses, jasmine, other flowers and bitter orange blossom are cultivated in the surrounding area, and the perfumes are distilled from them.
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Additional Source Wikipedia: Global Industry Classification StandardGICS: Personal Products
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1. Wikipedia: Perfume
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Perfume ( PUR-fewm, US also pər-FEWM) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent.
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Flavours and fragrance
Puig (company) (Wikipedia)
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