There are very few companies that synthesize linalool, and flavors and fragrances are its main application fields.

Linalool can be divided into natural linalool and synthetic linalool. Natural linalool is found in various plants such as rosewood, camphor tree, coriander, aloe vera, and lavender. Synthetic linalool refers to linalool synthesized through a certain process route using chemical products such as acetylene, acetone, isobutylene, α-pinene, β-pinene as raw materials. Synthetic linalool can meet the growing market demand and is not limited by natural resource sources. It has gradually attracted the attention of relevant domestic and foreign enterprises and research institutions, and the scope and amount of use have continued to expand.

Linalool is one of the most frequently used spices in daily chemical flavors and food flavor formulas. Synthetic linalool can be used directly as a spice, or it can be formulated into compound spices. Since synthetic linalool also has the properties and characteristics of alcohols and olefins, its corresponding derivatives such as formate, dihydrolalool, tetrahydrolalool, linalool oxide, geranyl acetone, etc. have higher boiling points. High, the fragrance lasts longer, and it is also widely used in the preparation of various flavors and fragrances. According to the“China’s Synthetic Linalool Industry Market Monitoring and Future Development Prospects Research Report 2022-2026” released by the Industrial Research Center , in 2021, the consumption of synthetic linalool in the Chinese market will be 6,600 tons, and the market share in the field of flavors and fragrances will exceed 80%.

At present, there are very few companies engaged in the production of synthetic linalool in my country, with only Zhejiang Xinhecheng Co., Ltd., while there are relatively many companies producing natural linalool. Zhejiang Xinhecheng Co., Ltd. has a long research and development time, and its technology and production scale are in a leading position in both domestic and foreign markets. Most of the other companies operating synthetic linalool business are foreign brand agents. At present, the main competitive brands of synthetic linalool in my country’s market include: Germany’s BASF, the Netherlands’ DSM, China’s Xinhecheng, etc. Xinhecheng cooperated with Zhejiang University and after more than 10 years of research and development, it successfully realized the industrial production of linalool series of spices. Compared with German BASF, Xinhecheng adopts a three-step reaction of alcoholization, hydrogenation and acylation, which not only improves the yield of each step of reaction, but also reduces the production cost of synthesizing linalool.

Industry analysts said that in the future, with the innovation of synthetic linalool technology and equipment and the continuous development of downstream industries, synthetic linalool The application areas of linalool will be broadened to a certain extent, but the main application areas are still flavors and fragrances; the proportion of medical care and other application areas has increased, but the growth rate is limited. From the perspective of consumption structure, in the future, the development of the downstream market will continue to upgrade, product quality will continue to improve, and the quality requirements for synthetic linalool will also increase. The requirements for the aroma, purity, and impurity content of synthetic linalool products will also More granular. In addition, with the improvement of product quality requirements and the diversification of application fields in the downstream market, downstream customers’ demand standards for synthetic linalool products will also be more refined.