Scientist; Fragrance Ingredients

Job Summary

Are you passionate about fragrance ingredient innovation and eager to shape the future of Home Care experiences through science and sensory insight?

IFF is a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering innovative solutions that delight consumers and enrich everyday experiences. We bring together science, creativity, and collaboration to create products that matter.

The Scent business unit creates fragrances that evoke emotion, enhance functionality, and bring products to life across multiple consumer categories, including Home Care and Fabric Care. Innovation, sensory expertise, and ingredient science are at the core of how we deliver value to our customers and consumers.

You will be part of a cross‑functional R&D and AoP (Art of Perfumery) platform team, working closely with perfumers, evaluators, and fragrance ingredient experts to assess, validate, and recommend new fragrance ingredients for innovation platforms.

You will play a critical role in ingredient‑led innovation by translating scientific and sensory insights into clear, data‑driven recommendations that shape the global fragrance ingredient portfolio.

• Acting as the key point of contact for R&D / AoP platform perfumers.
• Preparing application samples of new FRET ingredients in accordance with or finished fragrance applications.
• Supporting innovation with a strong focus on Home Care applications.
• Designing and executing “in‑use” evaluations at key consumer touchpoints, benchmarked against relevant standards.
• Ensuring evaluations are aligned with R&D outline KPIs.
• Collaborating on Go / No‑Go decisions for new ingredients.
• Defining recommended usage level ranges for accepted ingredients.
• Conducting stability testing and performance evaluations under different environmental conditions.
• Managing ingredient assessment data, ensuring traceability and historical tracking.
  
  Partnering with the Fragrance Ingredient Strategic Specialist to maintain the database of commercialized FRET ingredients.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Organic Chemistry or a related scientific discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of scent experience in fragrance (ingredient) projects or programs.
• Strong affinity with fragrance ingredient chemistry.
• Ability to smell and distinguish basic perfumery materials.
• Understanding of ingredient stability and behavior across applications.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and project management skills.
• Detail‑oriented, structured, hands‑on, and results‑driven mindset.

• Experience across multiple Home Care / Fabric Care touchpoints.
• Familiarity with Sensory Decision Making (SDM) frameworks.
• Ability to translate scientific findings into clear innovation recommendations.

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan Annual bonus opportunity
• Paid parental leave – 16 weeks

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of religion, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation or disability.

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$70,352 - $87,940