Symrise Proposes Bringing Perfumer To Fore Of Fragrance Marketing
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
With cautious consumers demanding to know why they should purchase a given product, the key to boosting fine fragrance sales could be introducing them to the experts – the perfumers, according to Symrise's Doreen Bucher.
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