This summer, CrowdGather, a company that specializes in working with and improving online communities, will be launching Erox, a unisex fragrance created with synthetic human pheromones.

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Turin identifies the "official birthday of fragrance chemistry" as the discovery of the synthetic simulation of coumarin, an essential component of the tonka bean, prized for its sweet, nutty and smoky fragrance, in 1868.

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Costly land and labour values have forced many perfume makers to move to major cities and increase the use of synthetic materials, said Virginia Bonofiglio, associate chairperson of cosmetics and fragrance marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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