Roman Kaiser

Roman Emperor ( born July 15, 1945 in Kirchberg SG ) is a Swiss fragrance chemist. Since 1968 he is employed at Givaudan, the world's largest manufacturer of fragrances and flavors, where he analyzed natural fragrances with the help of the so-called headspace technology and reconstructed for use in perfumes.

Life

After studying chemistry at Winterthur Technical 1968, he joined the Research Center of Givaudan in Dübendorf and has since worked as a fragrance chemist in this company. The focus of his work is the study and perfumistic reconstitution of natural scents and the search for and synthesis of new insulated from the natural fragrances. Since 1975, he turns to the headspace technique that allows the intact plant and its flowers by the overlying sample space is analyzed by gas chromatography. He is considered one of the pioneers of this methodology and many of the reconstituted by him Nature chords have found use in internationally renowned fragrance creations. In recognition of his extensive scientific work he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the ETH Zurich in November 1995. Lately his interest was increasingly occurring in the canopy of tropical rain forests and undergrowth vegetation and especially the reconstitution of scents of endangered plant species.

Publications

The results of his investigations are documented in many original papers in professional journals and in three previous books:

• From the fragrance of orchids. Olfactory and chemical tests. Editiones Roche, Basel 1993, ISBN 3-907946-87-1, 265 pages.
• Meaningful Scents around the World. Olfactory, Chemical, Biological, and Cultural Considerations. Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich, and Wiley -VCH, Weinheim, 2006, ISBN 3-906390-37-3, 304 pages.
• Scent of the Vanishing Flora. Verlag Helvetica Chimica Acta, Zurich, and Wiley -VCH, Weinheim, 2006, ISBN 3-906390-64-0, 483 pages.