Arctander's Book and/or CD Rom compiled by Steffen Arctander and is available in 3 volumes with hardcover binding as mentioned below:
 

• Aroma Chemicals Vol. 1
• Aroma Chemicals Vol. 2
• Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origins

 
These books were published in 1960 and 1969 respectively and reprinted in 2000.
 
Owing to their extensive demand and popularity, Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin and Perfume and Flavor Chemicals (Aroma Chemicals) are back in the market and are available in an exclusive three-book set that includes almost 90% of all chemicals presently used in flavors and fragrances, monographs, all known natural essential oils, extracts, oleoresins along with chemical structure, practical physical data, appearance, odor and flavor type. This set also includes botanical information, detailed odor and flavor descriptions, suggested uses, literature references and some safety and regulatory information.
 
Every information that one can find in Perfume and Flavor Materials of Natural Origin and Perfume and Flavor Chemicals (Aroma Chemicals) is now also available in a  CD-ROM. This is a simple and quick way of finding any particular information with the help of click of the mouse.

Understanding Fragrance Chemistry written by Charles Sell that focuses on the various aspects of organic chemistry that are of particular importance to the fragrance industry. The book is 2008 publication and comprises 350pages with a hardcover binding ensuring its durability.
 
Topics include:
 
·        The structure of matter
·        Organic molecules
·        Chemical reactivity
·        How nature makes fragrant molecules and many others
 
Each chapter ends with review questions that allow the readers to check their understanding of the content, and are provided with glossaries wherever appropriate. A specific chapter on chemical information and a bibliography will be handy to hose who want to read more on any of the subjects covered.

Cosmetics: Science and Technology was first published in the year  1957 and was unique in the sense that it was written by sixty-one authors, with most of them being employed with firms manufacturing the products described. Volume one includes descriptive information on the manufacture and formulation of fifteen different products and classes of products. These appear in the books in the below mentioned order:
 

• Cleansing creams and lotions
• Emollient creams and lotions
• Hormone creams
• Baby toiletries
• Hand creams and lotions
• Skin lighteners and bleach creams
• Suntan preparations
• Beauty masks
• Foundation makeup
• Face powders
• Rouge
• Lipsticks
• Eye makeup
• Dentifrices
• Mouthwashes

 
Volume two contains descriptive material on the manufacture and formulation of an additional eighteen products and classes of products in the following order:
 

• Shaving preparations
• Pre-shave and aftershave preparations
• Depilatories
• Shampoos
• Hair-grooming preparations
• Permanent waving products
• Hair straighteners
• Bleaches and related products
• Hair conditioners and related products
• Antiperspirants and deodorants
• Aerosol cosmetics
• Aerosol hair products
• Bath preparations
• Nail lacquers and removers
• Fingernail elongators and accessory nail preparations
• Eye lotions
• Fragrance, and emulsified and solid fragrances

 
The chapters in Volume three contains information on:
 

• The physiology of the skin and hair
• The physiology of sweat
• The use of colors in cosmetics
• Problems of quality control
• Preservation and psychological testing
• Historical information
• Legal information

 
In short, this volume contains all that information that the editors believe o be important on the subject of the title of the book, Cosmetics: Science and Technology, apart from the information mentioned in the first two volumes regarding the manufacture and formulation of the individual products. This book is  reprinted in the 2008 and consists of 2128 pages with a hard binding.

Sixth Edition of Food Chemicals Codex (FCC) that is a compendium of internationally recognized monograph standards and tests for the purity and quality of food ingredients such as preservatives, flavorings, colorings, and nutrients. In order to ensure that the products are prepared in compliance with good manufacturing practices and do not contain harmful levels of contaminants, the FCC is of immense help.
 
First published in the year 1966, FCC was recently acquired by USP from the Institute of Medicine. With the new Sixth edition, USP is updating the FCC through an open collaborative revision process involving industry, government, and the public information and features that include:
 

• Empirical formula; structural formula; formula weight; and CAS, INS, and FEMA numbers
• Description of the substance, including the physical form and solubility
• Function
• Identification
• Assay
• Physicochemical characteristics
• Loss on drying or water content
• Residual solvents
• Impurity limits
• Specific tests
• Packaging and storage
• Publication schedule

 
The Sixth Edition of FCC published in Spring 2008 will be followed by a supplement publishing in Spring 2009. Subsequently, USP will continue to publish the FCC every two years with one supplement in the interim year.
 
Who needs the FCC?
 
The FCC is an essential reference for anyone involved in:
 

• Food manufacturing
• Food chemicals and ingredients
• Food quality control
• Food regulatory affairs

 
How the FCC helps?
 

• Provides a comprehensive and easy access to monograph standards for over 1,000 food-grade ingredients
• Includes step-by-step guidance for tests and procedures
• Saves time and expense when setting protocols and SOPs

Provides assistance for maintaining regulatory compliance

Indian Pharmacopoeia 2007-2008  is available in 3 volumes. Published by Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, Ghaziabad, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Govt. of India, and includes 2328 pages. According to the Drugs and Cosmetic Act, 1940, Indian Pharmacopoeia is the legally recognized book of standards for the quality of drug substances and their preparations included therein.
 
Volume 1 of the book contains the General Notice, Preface, the structure of the IPC, Acknowledgements, Introduction and the General Chapters. Volume 2 includes General Monographs on Drug Substances, Dosage Forms and Pharmaceutical Aids (A to M). volume 3 deals with Monographs on Drug Substances, Dosage Forms and Pharmaceutical Aids(N to Z) followed by Monographs on Vaccines and Immunosera for Human use, Herbs and Herbal products , Blood and blood related products, Biotechnology products and Veterinary products.

About BP 2009  : The British Pharmacopoeia (BP) 2009, published August 2008, is the authoritative collection of standards for UK medicinal substances and the official source of UK pharmaceutical quality standards.
The BP contains monographs, which set out the mandatory standards for active substances, excipients and formulated preparations, together with General Notices, Appendices (test methods, reagents, etc) and Reference Spectra. Detailed information and guidance on various aspects of current pharmacopoeial policy and practice are provided in the Supplementary Chapters of the BP.
Key features:

• 44 new monographs for formulated preparations including veterinary medicines
• New and revised monographs for herbal and complementary medicines
• Standards for widely used unlicensed medicines
• European Pharmacopoeia material up to and including Supplement 6.2
• A complete, multi-format resource including print, CD-ROM and online
• New developments on www.pharmacopoeia.co.uk delivering the complete text of the British Pharmacopoeia and European Pharmacopoeia standards to your PC
• Value-for-money networking with full technical support from TSO, the publisher of the BP.

The BP is an essential reference for anyone involved in pharmaceutical research and development, manufacture and testing, and plays a vital role in ensuring that medicinal substances on the UK market meet standards of safety, quality and efficacy.
The BP is supplied in a variety of formats designed to be flexible to suit the specific needs and requirements of your organisation. The hard copy edition package comprises a boxed five volume set containing the BP in four volumes and the BP (Veterinary) volume, plus single user access to the BP online via www.pharmacopoeia.co.uk, the dedicated BP website. Concurrent-user licences are available, allowing access for a specified number of users or across an entire organisation.
Following registration using the product ID supplied with the hard copy, customers will be granted a single user licence to access the BP online and will have the option to receive the CD-ROM that contains the whole of the current British Pharmacopoeia.
Contents of BP 2009 To view the contents of BP 2009, please download the indexes in PDF format.

• BP 2009 Index (325KB PDF)
• BP 2009 (Vet) Index (56KB PDF)

BEST SELLER Title by SYMRISE Scientists, the 5^th latest edition of Common Fragrance and Flavor Materials encompasses information on natural and synthetic fragrance and flavor materials which are commercially available, produced and used on a relatively large scale. It also includes information on which are important ingredients for the creation of fragrance and flavor compositions because of their specific sensory characteristics such as smell and taste.
 
This book provides information on the properties, methods employed in manufacturing and the areas of applications alongwith extensive information on nearly 500 of the most used fragrance and flavor compounds. It includes everything right from names, molecular formula, physical data and odor to flavor descriptions, uses and a number of processes for the larger scale production of chemicals. The consecutive chapters talk about essential oils, animal secretions, quality control, toxicology and literature. Moreover, the formula, name and CAS registry number index are an invaluable and timely addition to this edition.
 
Contents:
 

• Introduction
• History
• Definition
• Physiological Importance
• Natural, Nature-identical, and Artificial Products
• Sensory Properties and Structure
• Volatility
• Threshold Concentration
• Odor Description
• Individual Fragrance and Flavor Compounds
  • Aliphatic Compounds
  • Acyclic Terpenes
  • Cyclic Terpenes
  • Other Cycloaliphatic Compounds
  • Aromatic Compounds
  • Phenoles and Phenol Derivatives
  • O-, O,S- and S,S-Heterocycles
  • N- and N,S-Heterocycles
• Natural Raw Materials in the Flavor and Fragrance Industry
  • Introduction
  • Isolation of Natural Fragrance and Flavor Concentrates
  • Survey of Natural Raw Materials
• Analytical Methods/Quality Control
• Safety Evaluation and Legal Aspects
  • Flavoring Substances
  • Fragrance Materials
• Formula Index: CAS Registry Number Index

2nd Latest Edition Herta Ziegler (Editor)  Hardcover 852 pages

The demand for flavourings has been constantly increasing over the last years as a result of the dramatic changes caused by a more and more industrialised life-style: The consumer is drawn to interesting, healthy, pleasurable, exciting or completely new taste experiences.   This book draws on the expert knowledge of nearly 40 contributors with backgrounds in both industry and academia and provides a comprehensive insight into the production, processing and application of various food flavourings. Methods of quality control and quality management are discussed in detail. The authors also focus on conventional and innovative analytical methods employed in this field and, last but not least, on toxicological, legal, and ethical aspects. Up-to-date references to pertinent literature and an in-depth subject index complete the book.  
 

This book is a revised version of Louis Appell's well-known work Cosmetics, Fragrances and Flavors that was first published in the year 1982. To enable easy reference, an index has been added to the book. The book discusses in detail the various aspects of the formulation of cosmetics, perfumes and flavors, and their chemistry and manufacturing procedures.
 
The main part of the book, Chapter I deals with the formulation of cosmetics and toiletries of every description and contains more than 200 ingredient label declarations of leading cosmetics with over 250 formulations suggested for the preparation of similar products.
 
Chapter II talks about the physical aspects of odor, summing up the author's findings. In Chapter III, the creation of perfumes according to the author's principle of olfactory equilibrium and equivalent weights is discussed. The systematically arranged formulas include 50 French-style perfumes, 30 high-class colognes, 75 floral perfumes, 130 cosmetic perfumes, some imitation essential oils, special perfume bases and perfumes for cosmetics and soaps.
 
Chapter IV discusses the formulation of flavors, whereas Chapter V deals with the stability of aromatic chemicals and essential oils in various cosmetic media. Chapters VI and VII entirely concentrate on the syntheses of specific aromatic chemicals.
 

AOAC is pleased to announce that the second revision of the 18th Edition of the Official Methods of Analysis (OMA) is NOW AVAILABLE. OMA is the most comprehensive and reliable collection of chemical and microbiological methods available

Arcadi Boix Camps
Hardcover
300 pages
Published 2009

Perfumery: Techniques in Evolution, 2nd Edition by perfumery luminary Arcadi Boix Camps reveals a profound knowledge of the use of perfumery materials in new and traditional formulas. With the addition of three more articles from Perfumer & Flavorist magazine, this combination of seven articles from 1978 through 2004 provides a unique review of perfumery chemicals that have been introduced to the industry in the past 30 years.

NEW in this edition:  

• An additional section of three more articles from Perfumer & Flavorist magazine
• Double the number of pages
• All material has been edited and updated with new content where appropriate
• New photographs and illustrations

With a flair for language and poetry, Boix Camps shares his vast knowledge of perfumery with sincere and vivid detail. He equates perfumery, in both technique and composition, with art, literature and dance—a vocation of pure creativity. His passion for scent has led him around the world numerous times, in an effort to discover and gather together the myriad fragrances of the earth.

In this new edition, Boix Camps outlines the relationships between fragrance materials, grouping them by category and exploring how their relationships with one another and across categories and existing perfumery products have evolved throughout time. Written in an accessible, personable manner, awash in Boix Camps’ own fl air for the subtlety and majesty of scent, Perfumery: Techniques in Evolution, 2nd Edition is a must-have look at the ever-changing world of perfumery through the eyes of one of its most ardent supporters and master craftsmen.

The first volume describes, from a general point of view, the history, chemistry, biological origin and functions of the essential oils, methods and analysis. The second volume deals with the chemical constituents of essential oils. Succeeding volumes are devoted to individual oils, their botanical and geographical origin, specific methods of production, physiochemical properties assay and use. Pages   3894 (6 Volumes)