Aromatech the Archive

Clove and allspice are not two spices on your brief. Chemically they are mostly one compound, and nothing on the spec sheet will tell you that. They are separate botanicals with separate CAS numbers. On the formula they are two ...

Thai basil is not really a basil flavor. It is a tarragon molecule wearing a Thai accent. Thai basil runs on anise and licorice, with a green herbal edge underneath. That anise note is the whole personality of the herb. ...

"Nature-identical." It's on the regulatory line of a European spec sheet somewhere in your supplier folder. Most people move past it. A nature-identical flavor molecule is made by chemical synthesis and is the same molecule you would find in nature. ...

America's 2026 flavor of the year spent half a century as contraband. Growing black currants was federally banned from 1911 to 1966 to protect pine timber, and some state bans outlived the millennium. McCormick just crowned it Flavor of the ...

"Category I saffron, ISO 3632." That line on a certificate of analysis is doing less work than most buyers think. Here is what it certifies. A lab dissolved dried stigmas in water at 1%, ran the solution through a spectrophotometer, ...

Half the world tastes candy here. The other half tastes a muscle rub. Wintergreen gum, root beer, birch beer. In the US this reads sweet, cold and nostalgic. Put the same sample in front of a European panel and you ...