Seeking Color Change Technology for Perfumes

A SpecialChem client is looking for a technology allowing a perfume to be colored while in the bottle and transparent while vaporized on the skin or fabric. The technology must be odorless and compatible with perfume components.

Innovation in the perfume and fragrance industry is traditionally led by packaging. A perfume showing a different color while packaged and release on the skin or fabric would be a game changer. The SpecialChem client, a leading personal care brand owner in America, is looking for such technology to tackle this market opportunity, leading to high volume potential.

The proposed technology must:

• change color (from a color to no-color)
• transform from black or red or violet to transparent (not perceived by consumer)
• should be compatible with perfume formula component (alcohol / fragrances / water / UV filters …)
• being safe for the skin
• be odorless
• resist pH between 5,00 and 7,00 (the SpecialChem client could adapt the pH of the formula depending of the technology requirements
• resist temperature between 02°C and 45°C
• not leave stains on skin or clothes / transparency must appear when perfume touches the skin or the tissue (not necessarily at the same time. It could be 2 minutes after the contact with the skin or tissue)
• be irreversible (it must remain transparent after the change color)
• work with spray

Our client is expecting launching a perfume incorporating the proposed technology as soon as possible.