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Zurich perfumer Andy Tauer has an interesting post on his issues with sourcing ingredients.

The market for high quality essential oils, absolutes, resins and delicate synthetics is being grazed these days. The best quality goes to China. Yep. Because they buy a lot, and more and even more. Thus, buyers who used to be served with priority in the past because they were good buyers, find themselves second tier or third tier, fighting for high quality oils with companies such as Givaudan or IFF or others.

I’ve been lucky, I guess merely because I’m using small quantitites. But seeing what major perfumers have to go through in terms of sourcing is interesting, but a tad bit frightening, to say the least.