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Flavours and fragrances and Phenol and acetone

Their prices have moved together.

Flavours and fragrances (chemical) and Phenol and acetone (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: aroma chemical feed

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Synthetic vanillin and many other aroma chemicals come from guaiacol and other phenol derivatives. The data show little link: monthly moves correlate at -0.01 and yearly at -0.04, since aroma chemicals are a small part of formula value.

  • -0.01 monthly change correlation
  • -0.04 12-month change correlation
  • 1.53 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.