Here you will find stories from across the business
From trend-spotting to sustainable success, discover our insights and articles
The cornerstone of a global enterprise
In the beginning there was vanillin: a brief history of Symrise, whose origins go back 150 years.
Waste-free & degradable
Symrise produces its Globanone® musk fragrance at Bushy Park in South Carolina. In doing so, the company applies the principles of green chemistry, which make the production process more efficient and the product more sustainable.
From service provider to strategic business partner
Human resources activities at Symrise will change in the coming years to put the company in an even better position for the future. An interview with Dr. Stephanie Coßmann, President Human Resources and Legal.
Facets of sustainability
From India to Madagascar to Holzminden: Symrise complies with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals throughout the Group, as evidenced by several examples from 2023.
Embracing traditions, shaping the future
Symrise has revived the southern French brand Maison Lautier, which is more than 150 years old and incorporated it into its portfolio. A visit to the cradle of perfurmery.
Positively into the future
Symrise established its own climate strategy at a very early stage. The Group wants to be climate-neutral starting in 2030.
All for one, one for all
Former competitors Groupe Néroli and SFA Romani merge under one roof at Symrise.
3x3 news
Here you’ll find important and exciting information in brief about partnerships, sustainable projects and products.
Humans as ecosystems
Symrise has developed special products to focus on the human microbiome. This offers unimagined possibilities.
Taste can be learned
In its own academy for flavorists, Symrise trains experts for three years who later work successfully in product development.
Staying on the safe side
With Symsafe, Symrise is rolling out a major campaign across the Group to strengthen occupational safety in the company.
Vitamin bomb
Symrise is launching the very first fair-trade acerola powder, which is cultivated organically in northeastern Brazil.
The rise of 'pet parenting'
How to stay at the forefront of an evolving pet food and pet care industry.
Scents you and your pet will agree on
A joint Group project combines its know-how of care, cosmetics and household cleaners to create products that make people and their pets equally happy.
On the road to an eco-friendly factory
In 2020, the Symrise Nutrition business unit Diana Pet Food opened its first production plant in Colombia. The plant is especially sustainable and provides a look into the future of manufacturing.
Bittersweet and multitalented
In the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal grows a fruit whose flavor and fragrance is used in food and beverages, cosmetics, household cleaning products and perfumes: the grapefruit. The company is dedicated to working closely with suppliers of the agricultural sector in the region.
A mighty little flower
Clove is an important raw material for Symrise. The company has developed a process in Indonesia that conserves resources when cultivating the spice.
Fragrances from big data
Symrise developed two perfumes for the Brazilian cosmetics giant O Boticário – nothing new – and the creative process was supported by algorithms and artificial intelligence. The “Philyra” project gives us a glimpse into the future.
Bergamot á la Symrise
Symrise is banking on sustainability and protecting biodiversity in its purchasing of this raw material.
Fine fish food
Aquacultures are growing around the world. Diana Aqua ensures the nutrition and wellbeing of fish with its products.
Everything’s bananas!
Diana Food produces excellent quality fruit and vegetable powders, flakes and purees in Ecuador.
Fragrances for the world
Perfumes arouse emotions, emphasize a style and often round out the entire personality.
As holistically as possible
Symrise has created a network of around 7,000 farmers in Madagascar, allowing the company to source 36 raw materials sustainably and reliably. But the farmers and nature benefit from this special partnership as well.
Bring on the future
Symrise wants to further reduce its carbon emissions. In pursuit of its goals, the company has launched the Houston program, which helps calculate the carbon and water footprint across the Group and raises employee awareness of sustainability.
From the field to the laboratory and back
The work of the Agroscience research department focuses on new methods of cultivating, harvesting and processing plant-based raw materials. Insights into an innovative world.
Faster, higher, farther
The IGNITE program, which was initiated in the Taste, Nutrition & Health segment, will help Symrise speed up the development of products and solutions in the future so that they reach market maturity more quickly.
Pure refreshment
Symrise sources mint oils from the USA which, in addition to nature-identical L-menthol, L-carvone and a variety of mint derivatives, are used as cooling and flavoring substances. A report.
Egg experts
Symrise acquired Dutch company Schaffelaarbos in 2022. In a functioning circular economy, the company produces high-quality products for the pet food industry from egg production sidestreams.
One of a kind
Sustainably produced captives are used as patented fragrance components to protect the compositions in fragrance combinations.
3x3 news
Brief insights into three topics, from different areas that moved Symrise in 2021.
Everything flows
Biodegradable fragrance ingredients from nature: To achieve this goal, Symrise relies on methods that include green chemistry.
Orange the world
A shared apartment, four roommates and a party. One ingredient that’s always around: the multitalented orange.
Cracking the code of nature
It’s six-thirty on a Tuesday evening and William, a content strategist in London, is waiting patiently to maneuver his shopping kart into the first aisles of his busy, local supermarket.
Rebirth of a long-standing brand
Symrise is revitalizing the French brand Maison Lautier, which has belonged to the Group since the mid-1990s, for the innovative sustainable natural substance portfolio of the Scent & Care segment.
Six steps to success
Plant extracts are being intensively researched, analyzed and brought to market in a six-step process. Chamomile provides just one example.
A hemp success story
At the “Hemp Day,” Symrise demonstrated how the ever more important raw material can be sustainably cultivated and processed.
Rating: extremely valuable
The concept of the circular economy is growing in importance worldwide. In many areas, Symrise is applying principles that take byproducts of production and use them to manufacture valuable products.
The cultivation specialists
Symrise is collaborating with supplier Van Aroma in Indonesia to secure sustainable agriculture and thus the future of patchouli farmers.
Entrepreneurial spirit and innovation
A perfect acquisition: The British company Cobell is strengthening Symrise’s position in the UK market.
Queen of the kitchen
One of the most important raw materials is the onion. Symrise aims to be the global leader in diversity, quality and sustainability.
Of bees and biodiversity
Symrise has bulid up a beekeeping very close to its headquarters in Holzminden.
Social petwork
Diana Pet Food has participated financially in the social network Yummypets in 2016.
Latino America
Taste and scent. What preferences do Hispanics have? With "Conexión Latina" and "Sabor in America," Symrise is developing suitable products.
Endless diversity
In the species-rich Amazon region of Brazil, Symrise identifies new raw materials to develop products for the global cosmetics market.
Commitment on all levels
In accordance with the Low-Carbon Transition Plan, Symrise has taken a variety of measures to make the entire Group climate neutral by 2045.
Great benefit for the future
The trendscope™ 2024+ report for the food and beverage industry is a prime example of how Symrise analyzes trends in all segments and puts them into practice to create value.
Healthy development
Bioactive ingredients for use in healthcare products offer enormous growth opportunities. Symrise has pooled its expertise in this area and developed a vision and strategy.
Less CO₂ with the same effect
Perfumer Anne Dussourt is working together with the Symrise sustainability team on reducing the carbon footprint of the company’s fragrance creations.
The beauty of deep red
Symrise is the first company in the industry to use hibiscus from verified sustainable sources.
Vegetable diversity
One raw material, many uses: Three experts from different divisions discuss synergies.
Creating added value
Symrise produces a range of fragrances and flavors from the byproducts of other industries. It doesn’t get more sustainable than this.
Proteins? But without meat!
A rapidly expanding global market: Vegan and vegetarian alternatives to meat, fish and dairy products are booming.
A commitment to sustainability
In Brazil, Symrise has built an education center at its Granja Viana site near São Paulo, which will primarily benefit schoolchildren from the surrounding area.
Green chemistry: the power and the possibilities
Transforming natural and renewable by-products into high quality ingredients. From orange peel to oral care. Production of authentic-tasting concentrates.
The farmers in focus
Symrise enters into sustainable supply-chain partnerships in areas around the world where the company sources many of its raw materials. Three examples.
Embracing naturalness in a changing world
Consumers are taking control under Covid, adding health, creativity and wellbeing to mealtimes.
Second life
Symrise has implemented the first application of Sulfacid® technology in the fragrance and flavor industry. Exhaust fumes from production are desulfurized at the plant in Jacksonville, Florida. The environment benefits from this and Symrise also saves on costs.
The fragrance of forests
Renessenz, as part of Pinova Holdings, puts Symrise's raw material base in the Aroma Molecules business unit on a new footing.
Ecologically optimized
The eco-design matrix developed by Diana Pet Food analyzes, measures and optimizes the environmental performance of products all along the value chain. This changes the company’s environmental footprint, from the development of raw materials to purchasing, research and development, production and logistics.
Favorite fragrance
Symrise is working with the CRIEPPAM research institute and local farmers to promote the sustainable cultivation of lavender in Provence.
All about the berries
Diana Food produces standardized cranberry extracts and powders in Canada. A glimpse into a sustainable value chain.
Innovative spirit
At Symrise, good ideas are born where people work together every day. In Holzminden, a team has optimized the processes in spray drying.
New raw materials and products from the diversity of nature
Symrise has been sourcing vanilla from Madagascar directly from producers since 2004.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Innovative flavor compositions and novel scent and care experiences are created at Symrise when teams from different divisions work together.
A science in its own right
What do cats and dogs like to eat best? In expert panels, Diana Pet Food investigates the taste preferences of the four-legged friends and the quality of the food.
Purely a matter of taste
Feed for animals in aquacultures must be healthy, nutritious and tasty at the same time. At Diana Aqua’s new Aqualis test center in Thailand, employees are developing innovative functional components.