Aroma Ingredients

Innovative aroma ingredients for the flavor & fragrance industry

Innovate to stand out from your competition: The fragrance industry has a growing need for sustainable aroma products with a good regulatory profile, improved price performance ratios and unique olfactive profiles.

By combining our strengths in chemistry with the know-how of flavor and fragrance houses and other strategically relevant partners, we can accelerate the development of sustainable fragrance ingredients for the whole industry. Biotechnology complements our key innovation capabilities and supports the transformation to renewables-based aroma ingredients.

In everything we do, we ensure that each drop of our products is full of innovation:

Introducing BASF’s Future‑Proof-Palette, built on Safe-by-Design principles

The Future‑Proof-Palette includes Dihydrorosan®, Velberry® and now, Micadelva™, covering floral/green, fruity/gourmand and citrus, olfactive spaces. All three ingredients share Safe‑by‑Design principles, resulting in high‑performing fragrance ingredients that give perfumers creative freedom without regulatory risk.

These ingredients demonstrate how BASF’s Safe-by Design approach enables the development of innovative molecules that balance creative performance with high safety standards. By rigorously assessing carcinogenicity, endocrine activity, persistence, and other related hazards early in development and advancing only candidates with favorable profiles, BASF is building a future-ready portfolio of fragrance ingredients designed to meet evolving regulatory expectations.

Read more about our Future‑Proof-Palette and Safe-by-Design principles here

Excellence in chemistry meets creativity of perfumery: How we develop innovative and sustainable solutions for the entire flavor and fragrance industry

The innovation approach of BASF’s Aroma Ingredients business combines its strengths in chemistry with the know-how of flavor and fragrance houses and other partners in the F&F industry. Consolidating the capabilities of all partners in one innovation ecosystem speeds up the development of new-to-the-world fragrance ingredients for the whole F&F industry.

The fragrance industry has a growing need for new aroma ingredients, but innovation in new ingredients is increasingly expensive, time-consuming and complex.

BASF's Virtual Innovation Ecosystem speeds up the development of new-to-the-world fragrance ingredients by combining the capabilities of cutting-edge technology with chemical expertise and the know-how of our innovation partners.