I found this really interesting article about engineering and perfume. It said perfume ingredients are being "regulated out of existence" and companies are trying to find new ingredients to replace the old ones. Oakmoss was the main ingredient talked about and used by many popular perfume industries. after finding out it was an allergen it was restricted and led to the engineering of perfume that smell closely to it.
I thought it was very interesting that companies would go to such lengths to create the oakmoss sent using different ingredients because the sent was so popular. I also feel as though the engineers have a hard task of trying to make the smell almost exact because of article saying how people who buy the perfume will be very hard to trick because they are so familiar with the sent.
In many of my posts engineers are trying to create solution to problems at hand. They try new ingredients and try to modify or in this case replicate a product. I find that really fascinating and interesting that that people can create something almost exact to the original but they use different ingredients.
If you want to read the article here's the link:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/10/ff_perfume/
Courtney Humphries. "Engineering Replacements for Essential Perfume Ingredients.".21 Oct 2011 Wired. web. 30 Mar 2014.
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