The perfumes are exported to over 26 countries worldwide, including the USA and Canada, South East Asia and North America. Whether perfume from Dior, Gucci, Joop or Jil Sander, scents from the company from Bitterfeld-Wolfen can be found in almost every bottle. Because hardly anyone knows: the majority of scents and aromas which are used worldwide are developed in laboratories such as at Miltitz Aromatics. "It all started almost 20 years ago. The first major commission came from Grasse in France, the global capital for perfume. It was a job order production, i.e. according to the customer's specifications and we developed a violet perfume. Customised, so to speak, and we were thereby able to make our mark“, explains Müller. "The violet perfume is a classical scent in perfume manufacturing and is very costly to produce.“ The fragrance obtained is refined in Grasse and is used as a perfume for cosmetics, washing-up liquid, detergent and even food flavouring substances.Miltitz Aromatics GmbH has more than 60 scent and aroma substances which have been developed in its own research laboratory on behalf of customers. In this way, for example, Dr. Peter Müller's team is the only manufacturer of the distinguished ambergris scent substance hydroxyambran which is used in perfume manufacturing for the characterisation of the base note. The smell is tobacco-like and woody and the perfume is described as having an aphrodisiac effect. Ambergris is produced in a natural way when sperm whales ingest their food. But not only because the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) prohibits the trade of sperm whale products, natural ambergris is no longer used. The synthetic manufacturing of the scent substance is also significantly more cost-efficient.However, Miltitz Aromatics GmbH does not produce its own perfumes. "We have specialised in fulfilling customer wishes“, explains the aroma expert Peter Müller. "Research is carried out in our laboratory on behalf of our partners. Nothing is ready-made.“ In this way, the grapefruit scent was also created specifically for a customer, because the fresh, bitter scent is the secret perfume tip for summer 2011. The turnover figures show that this is the right decision. "This year we will break the 12 million euro turnover mark. In the past year, this figure was 11 million euros.“Currently, the Miltitz experts are researching a new technology for a large plant which enables new innovations with cost-saving advantages. If things go as Managing Director Peter Müller describes, the new large plant should commence operation in the coming year, on the company's anniversary. "This would mean a significant wish would be fulfilled. Because raw materials can be offered even more cost-efficiently with this plant, assuring us a great deal of independence.“Perfume was produced by the Schimmel company in Miltitz near Leipzig as long as hundreds of years ago. Expropriated during the GDR era and transformed into a cosmetics state holding company, the start of the 1990s offered the opportunity to build on old traditions at the new site in Bitterfeld-Wolfen. With the founding of the company, it was no coincidence that the name "Miltitz Aromatics“ was used. Today, Dr. Peter Müller and his 50 employees have regained its reputation for being perfume experts.Author Dagmar PerschkeContact:Miltitz Aromatics GmbHManaging Director Dr. Peter MüllerRiechstoffstrasse06766 Bitterfeld-Wolfen

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