Our research effort is dedicated to discovering, developing, and manufacturing new and unique flavor and fragrance ingredients that provide our flavorists and perfumers with an advantage in creating consumer preferred products.

• Based on our Living FlowerŽ and GeneressenceŽ programs, we focus on the chemical synthesis of newly identified ingredients to differentiate our final compositions from our competitors.

• Natural ingredients and pathways are the other major focus of our research with dedicated teams in the areas of:
  
  Biotechnology (Natural Chemicals)
  Molecular Biology
  Enzymology (Flavor Enhancers, Meat Replacers)
  Process Flavors (Savory & Sweet Building Blocks)
  Natural Isolates/Essential Oils (Vanilla, Sensates, Extracts)
  Chemical Synthesis
  
  
• IFF is becoming the industry's most vertically integrated source of natural vanilla products. To realize this we are comprehensively developing staff, facilities, and modern agricultural techniques for every step of cultivation, curing, and the final processing of cured beans into natural extracts and building blocks.