Founded in Geneva, Switzerland, 125 years ago, Firmenich is the world’s largest privately-owned company in the fragrance and flavour industry, with a turnover of $6.29 billion (as at June 2021). Its business is focused on three key areas: perfumery, ingredients and taste, all backed by world-class science and innovation from its R&D centres around the world.
When we think of how perfumes are created, we may imagine an apothecary-type set-up where perfumers in white lab coats sniff dozens of essential oils to arrive at the best scents. While this scenario could still be true for small-batch artisanal fragrance houses, bigger manufacturers like Firmenich rely on more than just oils and test tubes to develop their scents.
A large part of Firmenich’s success is its extensive library of digital innovations such as recently-launched Scentmate — an AI-enabled platform that streamlines and simplifies perfume co-creation to deliver winning fragrance solutions for its clients. Using 50 years of fragrance data, Scentmate recommends the best perfumer-curated fragrance solutions, shortening into minutes a process that previously took weeks. Samples arrive within 48 hours, and orders are fulfilled in under five days.
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