Market & Pricing
Fragrance raw material prices swing harder than most commodities: a single bad harvest or a change in export policy can double or collapse a price within a season. This pillar follows the numbers, farm-gate prices, international quotes, shortage and oversupply cycles, with the context needed to tell a genuine structural shift from short-term noise.
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Madagascar vanilla: from €2,000 a kilo to collapse, how to explain the swings
In a few years, the price of Malagasy vanilla went from historic records to a spectacular collapse. A look at the mechanics of one of fragrance and food's most volatile markets.
Fragrance's raw material shortage: how the industry is responding
Growing scarcity of noble natural materials, price volatility, dependence on a handful of production basins: how fragrance industry players are building structural responses.
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