The Perfume Bee

As we await reports from the goings-on at the recent World Perfumery Congress in Cannes, I thought you might like to see this “sneak preview” in the May 2007 Perfumer&Flavorist online. In this article, P&F has an interesting talk with Dominique Coutière, founder and president of Biolandes, who was scheduled to speak at the WPC about the future of natural and organic essential oils. Biolandes is a leader in supplying natural raw materials to the perfume industry.

While speaking of new directions for the company, Coutière states:

The second direction has been the development of new botanical extraction technologies that have enabled us to improve productivity and to improve the environmental impact. Our extraction technologies make it possible to sharply reduce the volumes of solvents used and we process most of our own botanical wastes by composting. Our two biggest factories—in France and Spain—use distillation residues as their primary energy source. For our Provence factory in France we also are investing this year in a new clean water treatment technology based on purification using bamboo (read whole article here).

I find it heartening that a major botanical supplier is demonstrating such deep concern for the sustainability of its processes throughout the supply chain. I look forward to hearing how this topic was received at the World Perfumery Conference.

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