Reuters is reporting that hundreds of classic fragrances, including Chanel No. 5, will have to be reformulated if EU proposals to restrict ingredients such as citral (from citrus fruits), coumarin (from tonka beans), eugenol (from rose oil) – to 0.01 percent of the finished product; and completely ban tree and oak moss.
The Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety (SCCS), who are advising the EU, say that 1-3% of people “are allergic or potentially allergic to perfume”. The industry isn’t taking it lying down. Reuters say that “Trade associations including IFRA and Cosmetics Europe, whose members are perfume and cosmetics companies such as LVMH, are aiming to submit a joint industry proposal to the Commission by the end of 2012.”According to an article Perfume & Flavorist, IFRA suggested “using technologies such as smart labeling, telephone hotlines and websites to help consumers obtain detailed, accurate and beneficial information on fragrance materials, which would allow consumers to evaluate a product in relation to potential skin allergens and their own requirements”Which makes a lot more sense in our view.Further reading
- Perfume-makers fear EU legal blow to industry : Article on Reuters
- SCCS research
- IFRA Says SCCS Draft Opinion Needs Multi-Stakeholder Approach : Perfumer & Flavorist
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Since it appears these perfume allergies are triggered by application, not by smelling it on someone else, surely it's enough to provide warnings on the product and let people make an informed choice whether to wear it or not. Mitts off my Mitsouko! :-)
God I'm so sick of these changes...I'll definately hoard some No.5 if this is the case, even though I really don't want to.
I want to know what percentage of the population is addicted to alcohol? If it's over 3%, is the government going to outlaw the production of spirits?
Gee, you can go down the list of things.....how about gasoline? Isn't it a carcinogen? So why not ban gasoline?
The whole thing smacks of BIG BROTHER!!!
The people who make the decisions stand to profit from them and those who expose them are ridiculed.
The regulatory bodies are funded by the big companies who manufacture the replacements for the banned substances.
One day we will shove their captive molecules up their ars** while giving away free oakmoss!
And yes, I'm hoarding already. I can't imagine a world without N'Aimez Que Moi, Parfum Sacre, Ta'if, Paris, Samsara, etc., etc. Altered as so many already are, I don't see they how they could survive further doctoring, so I keep several backups for each now.
I say we round up those busybodies who are advocating this outrage and dump them into a vat of pure oakmoss extract until they see reason!
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NANNY STATE EUROPE.
Is there a good way to have sythetic coumarin, oakmoss and citral ? It seems like almost every fragrance I have has these indgredients. I just don't even see how it is possible. All the modern mainstream designers use coumarin.
You hit the nail right on the head!
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So what happens when they find that an even greater percent of the population is allergic to the some replacement chemicals they're really trying to push? I'll bet you won't hear a peep out of the regulators, as they will work really hard to keep it from the public. How much more greedy and corrupt can they get?
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Thank you for sharing that and proving that these extreme restrictions are out of control.