The perfume trade
An interesting article from Chandler Burr in today’s New York Times, about the invention of scent molecules in the perfume trade.
Here’s the first paragraph:
Its scent is reminiscent of a mixture of a just-picked apple and a rose in its prime. But to the Takasago International Corporation, which manufactures this synthetic material, it smells even sweeter.
As they say, read the whole thing!
( I wonder if the perfume folks are as agitated about patent reform as big pharma … )
