The Flavor Navigator

Driving comparability, productivity, collaboration and trade
Understand the marketplace
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Independent, unbiased and game-changing flavor portal for ingredient suppliers and F&B manufacturers

Understand the marketplace

Search suppliers, compare flavors and order samples
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Suppliers and flavors

Discover flavor houses, ingredient suppliers, and their flavors. Ask your preferred flavor houses to join and publish their flavors. Ask for your sub-collections of buying flavors, maintained and accessible at all time. iSense marketplace is accessible in full only to F&B manufacturers, and requires a registration and login to protect flavor houses data.

Benchmark

Select any flavor from your flavor manager, and benchmark against the marketplace. Simplify your portfolio and make sure you’re buying well, any time.

Food formulations

While searching flavors can be daunting, searching a food or beverage recipe is an easier exercise. Find recipes and order samples of associated flavors.

Digital engagement

Industry developers and buyers require multichannel 24/7 engagement. Usual e-shops do not work for flavors. How will you select between 50 strawberry pictures? iSense brings price and taste comparability between flavors to drive selection, collaboration and digital engagement.

Sensory Services

Profile your flavors, map your flavor space, and optimize your portfolio

Sensory language

A standardized taste frame of reference  developed by the best sensory professionals and flavorists, based on a proofed independent sensory language encompassing classical tonalities, refined using hundreds of flavor samples collected from various locations worldwide.

Flavor sensory profiling

Based on an ISO methodology, our consensus sensory evaluation has been enhanced by three years of experience. This one-time independent and standardized analysis is a game-changer: get an iso-intensity evaluation that enables cost comparability, and a flavor profile for comparability. 
As simple as sending your flavor samples to iSense.

Mapping flavors

Uncover your portfolio, chart your path. We provide independent mappings that are an asset for innovation and productivity, both now and in the future. They are your foundation for selection, insights, and simplification.

Portfolio optimization

Imagine selecting a color in a dark room. This is akin the process of selecting flavors today. This leads to proliferation, complexity and cost. iSense analyses your portfolio and provides clear and data-based recommendations for rationalization today, and to prevent proliferation in the future.
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Your flavor manager

Build-up flavor sensory data, select, benchmark, match and brief flavor houses
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Flavor management

Flavor selection and flavor data management are a struggle. iSense eases flavor management and selection. Sub-collections empower distributors, suppliers and F&B manufacturers with curated, documented and maintained flavors. Collaboration is enabled with taste standards and certification. And digital engagement becomes a reality.

Comparing

Flavors are functional taste backboxes. iSense certifies each flavors taste to offer comparability. Enjoy cost-in-use comparability thanks our iso-intensity tasting, and profile comparability thanks our flavor sensory profilings. Benchmarking across thousands of flavors is done with a click, to support flavor selection and commercial decisions.

Creating

Creating flavors from building blocks was always considered as the next frontier: iSense makes it a reality. Select a target profile, select flavors or building blocks to blend, and get a recommended blend formulation to match your target profile.

Briefing

Briefing a new flavor is a cumbersome time intensive and often biased exercise. iSense briefing interface allows to post qualitative briefs to your preferred flavor houses within minutes.