What are blended flavors?
December 15, 2025
Blended flavors are complex aroma products created by blending multiple single fragrances or natural flavorings according to specific formulas and proportions. They possess the following core characteristics:
1. Rich and Creative Aroma Layers
- Synergistic Effect: Different fragrance components blend together to produce more complex and three-dimensional aroma layers (top, middle, and base notes), achieving a unique style that single fragrances cannot achieve.
- Customizable: Formulas can be flexibly adjusted according to needs (such as mimicking natural floral or fruity scents, or creating abstract fragrances), and are widely used in e-liquids, food, cosmetics, perfumes, and other fields.
2. Enhanced Functionality and Stability
- Maskating Unpleasant Odors: Effectively neutralizes or masks off-odors in raw materials (such as chemical odors in pharmaceuticals and industrial products).
- Improved Product Consistency: Compensates for batch-to-batch variations in natural flavorings through blending, ensuring aroma stability.
- Enhanced Lasting Power: A reasonable combination of components with different volatility extends the overall aroma's persistence.
3. Economy and Practicality
- Cost Optimization: Balances cost and effect by using a small amount of expensive fragrances (such as natural essential oils) in combination with synthetic fragrances.
- Adaptability to Processing Conditions: Heat-resistant/acid/alkali-resistant components can be selected to maintain the effectiveness of the aroma, addressing the needs of high-temperature processing and pH changes.
4. High Technical Barriers
- Complex Formulations: Requires mastery of perfumery techniques and fragrance chemistry knowledge to avoid reactions between components that could lead to aroma distortion or precipitation.
- Regulatory Compliance: Mixed fragrances used in food and cosmetics must comply with national or international safety standards (such as IFRA, GB 2760).
5. Wide Range of Applications
- Food and Beverages: Imitates natural flavors (such as strawberry milk flavoring) or creates new flavors (such as "lychee rose").
Precautions
- Compatibility: The compatibility of the fragrance with the base must be tested to prevent discoloration, separation, or inactivation.
- Dosage Control: Overuse may result in an jarring aroma or even trigger allergies (especially in cosmetics).