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Temporal dominance of sensations

The temporality of sensations has been acknowledged in the food industry and for a long time as a potential key driver of liking. However, no practical method was available until now for tracking down such a temporal sensory signal simultaneously on...

Catalogue: Fragrance 2007

Authors: Brieuc de Larrard, Sandra Corneau

Company: Symrise AG

November 14, 2007

Let the product talk

at LVMH, Product insight has successfully contributed to several types of problematics. two will now being explained: the launch of a new fragrance (Pucci for women) where the brief is to try and understand which juice should be chosen to meet best...

Catalogue: Fragrance 2007

Authors: Evelyne Rédier, Sandrine McClure

Company: Reperes

November 14, 2007

Touching smells, sniffing colours, tasting odours

This paper looks at two aspects of fragrances which roughly correspond to sociological and psychological perspectives.In the first section, it examines the sense of smell and the human experience (sensory and social) of fragrances.The second section...

Catalogue: Fragrance 2007

Authors: Alan Branthwaite, Luigi Toiati

Company: Focus S.r.L.

November 14, 2007

Likeability, liking is not enough

The purpose of this paper is to take stock of a very good friend of Market Researcher: Likeability.We are reviewing why it is our best friend through easiness and reliability, but also where we should be very careful if we do not want to be fooled....

Catalogue: Fragrance 2007

Authors: Agnès Fournier, Nathalie Yvert-Blanchet

November 14, 2007

Back on track

This presentation describes how Rexona lost its way in France and how research created a new category language to show the way back to growth. A fusion of different approaches was used including Semiotics, Extended Creativity Groups, In-depth...

Catalogue: Congress 2007: Excellence

Authors: John S. Pawle, Jaroslav Cir, Simon Patterson

Companies: Unilever, QRi Consulting Ltd.

September 19, 2007

Warm vodka and sweaty women

Conventional research techniques failed to find the key insights necessary to drive behavioural change around Russian women's relatively infrequent use of deodorant. A combination of semiotics, ethnography and market analysis provided a means of...

Catalogue: Consumer Insights 2007

Authors: Jaroslav Cir, Greg Rowland

Companies: Greg Rowland Semiotics, Unilever

May 7, 2007

Direct olfactometry and gas ography as a tool for the dynamic semantic characterisation of fragrances?

This paper presents a new method for fragrance evaluation: Direct Gas Chromatography-Olfactometry.All tests were performed with a set of six fragrances representing the sweet and 'gourmand' trend emerging during the 1990s. A preliminary study...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Fragrance Research Conference 2005

Authors: Barbara Rega, Jean-Marc Sieffermann, Julien Delarue, Pierre Giampaoli

May 15, 2005

Typology of fragrance emotions

The fact that we are capable of distinguishing many distinct emotions is illustrated by the vast number of emotion-denoting words that exist in most human languages.In the English language, for example, researchers have reported lists of up to 400...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Fragrance Research Conference 2005

Author: Pieter Desmet

May 15, 2005

Fabric conditioner fragrance optimisation for the Australian market

This paper is a case study involving a client with a successfully performing brand of fabric conditioner who has acquired another brand in the Australian market. The business strategy was to relaunch both brands with revised fragrance ranges that...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Fragrance Research Conference 2005

Author: Sarah Hyland

Company: Colmar Brunton

May 15, 2005