Making An “Experience” Of Personal Care: Chemical Firms Talk Shop
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Fragrance and specialty molecule developers are leveraging consumer and market insight to design ingredients for inclusion in personal-care products that enhance the end user's "sensory experience.
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