Eurofragance has taken the wraps off Olivante, an innovative captive ingredient that delivers opulence in fine fragrances, personal care and air care scented products.
Olivante is made by upcycling discarded olive pulp into a fragrance raw material through a 100% natural process.
Felipe San Juan, R&D Manager Ingredients and Fragrance Performance and Magdalena Rey, Technical Perfumer, both at Eurofragance, spent months scouring the Spanish countryside searching for the variety of olive with the right concentration of the desired volatiles and precursors.
Because different varieties of olives generate different odorant residues, this search was important to first identify the waste material with the most promising olfactive profile.
They worked over a two-year period with a waste management engineer from a specific region of Spain to obtain the ideal original material.
Eurofragance then transformed and refined it via an eco-friendly, multi-step purification process into a new perfumery ingredient that they named Olivante.
The result is a 100% natural, upcycled fragrance raw material.
“Olivante cannot be made from any random olive pulp. Terroir and climate from a very specific region of Spain are key to this project,” said San Juan.
“Then we applied our scientific expertise to characterize and separate the essential odorant molecules needed to develop a desirable captive ingredient.”
