Specialist track: Industrial and Functional Fragrances
Fragrance for soap, detergent, home and personal care: bases, stability and dosage in the product.
Lessons
How a base changes a fragrance
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Partitioning and Release in Functional Products
Why a fragrance smells different in a lotion, a shampoo and a detergent: partition, logP, micelles and release. Calculate where a material sits, then test it.
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Chemical Survival in Harsh Bases
Which fragrance materials survive high pH, bleach and peroxide? Learn the reaction logic, predict problems by functional group and plan a stability test.
Product families
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Soap and Alkaline Systems
Soap is alkaline, so it reshapes a fragrance. Choose materials for pH, discoloration and process, compare soap methods and test before you scale up.
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Laundry and Fabric Care
Why most fragrance goes down the drain, what deposits on fabric, how encapsulation works and what EU rules say about it. Run a small dry-fabric comparison.
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Shampoo, Shower and Surfactant Systems
Fragrance dissolves in micelles, changes viscosity and clarity, and blooms on dilution. Learn the mechanics, and plan a small trial on an unfragranced base.
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Candles and Air Care Engineering
Engineering a home fragrance: wax compatibility, wick, burn safety, evaporation curves and sprays. Log a real evaporation curve from a reed-diffuser test.
Bringing it to product
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Dose, Cost and Performance Trade-Offs
In functional products the fragrance budget is tiny and the base unforgiving. Work out cost per use and performance per unit of cost, then make a choice.
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Specialist Project: One Fragrance, Two Bases
Write a full adaptation plan taking one fragrance into two product bases: chemistry review, adapted formulas, a test plan and a list of checks still needed.