KANEBO ‘NOSE’ EXPLAINS HOW HIS COMPANY INTEGRATES HEALTHY SCENTS IN ITS PRODUCTS
June 1st, 2010
BY JULIAN RYALL
WITHOUT looking, Ryoichi Komaki, 57, reaches out and unerringly selects one out of hundreds of small, glass bottles that are arrayed on shelves around his desk. He unscrews the cap and dips an absorbent strip in the liquid. Wafting it under my untutored nose, it is clearly the scent of a rose - but not any old rose.
This is the heady scent of the essential oils of a white rose grown in Bulgaria that Dr Komaki, the chief perfumer of Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., has discovered has the ability to inhibit the production of melanin in humans, the cause of ...
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