Guangzhou, September 29, 2025 — Guangzhou Molecular Information Technology Co., Ltd. has announced a revolutionary breakthrough in flavor and fragrance (F&F) production: the successful, all-natural replication of the highly prized Damask Rose Absolute, using a process based entirely on digital component design. This innovation, achieved in collaboration with a long-standing Chinese F&F partner, signals a critical paradigm shift that decouples the creation of high-value natural ingredients from traditional agricultural and extraction supply chains.
The company asserts that its technique is fundamentally different from current technology. By relying purely on digital blending without any additives, the process successfully bypasses the need for costly and volatile good planting and traditional extraction methods.
The Scientific Leap: Chemometrics and the Digital Blueprint
The core of this disruptive technology lies in the mastery of advanced chemometrics, spearheaded by the company and Dr. Zhang Huajun. This mastery is realized through the proprietary software, SmartDalton, which utilizes the powerful Band-Target Entropy Minimization (BTEM) and tBTEM algorithms. SmartDalton acts as a sophisticated analytical tool for molecular separation and deconvolution, enabling the precise identification of hundreds of individual compounds in a matter of days from complex natural samples, achieving unparalleled molecular fidelity.
Natural essential oils, such as those derived from the Damask Rose (Rosa damascena), are incredibly complex mixtures containing hundreds of compounds, including trace components and molecules with specific chiral (mirror-image) properties that define the true aroma. Standard analytical techniques often struggle to resolve these complexities due to signal overlap.
The BTEM algorithm solves this problem by mathematically deconvoluting the raw spectral data, allowing the team to accurately reconstruct the pure chemical spectrum and precise concentration profile for every single component within the natural extract. This exhaustive analysis generates a high-fidelity ‘Digital Blueprint’—the absolute target stoichiometry for the subsequent Digital Blending process.
Eliminating Agricultural Risk and Impurity
This molecular reverse-engineering approach strategically addresses the two greatest inefficiencies in the natural F&F supply chain: batch-to-batch variability and impurity.
- Decoupling from Agriculture: High-value extracts, such as rose oil, are subject to extreme yield volatility and quality fluctuations based on climate, soil (‘terroir’), and harvesting conditions. By moving from farming to digital analysis, the company eliminates the inherent risks associated with natural cultivation, allowing for reliable, 24/7 manufacturing scalability.
- Achieving Ultimate Purity: Traditional extraction methods, particularly solvent extraction used for Absolutes (like rose), co-extract non-aromatic contaminants such as waxes, hydrocarbons, and fatty acids. M.IT Co. sharply differentiates this approach from the industry’s conventional pursuit of ‘high-purity’ through mechanical filtering and separation. The company argues that efforts to filter out impurities post-extraction are a misguided methodology. Instead, true high-purity is an inherent result of their approach: once the ideal molecular profile of a premium natural product is perfectly mapped by the analytical step (SmartDalton), the resultant material, by definition, achieves this state without requiring secondary refinement. This synthesis is followed by Digital Blending, which is the re-profiling stage where only the identified, pure components are physically mixed with no additives, resulting in a product that is chemically standardized and exceptionally ‘pure’. The final product is an additive-free chemical replica of the highly valued essence, such as the distinct profile found in the Chinese 墨红净油 ‘Mo Hong’ rose absolute.
New Frontiers for High-End Ingredients
The successful replication, using 墨红净油 (Mo Hong Rose Absolute) as a foundation, validates a process capable of creating high-quality, standardized raw materials. This capability is poised to accelerate the China domestic production of high-end fragrance and flavor ingredients, ensuring consistency for use in luxury perfumes, cosmetics, and functional products globally.
This achievement positions the company at the forefront of the global industry, shifting the competitive landscape from physical sourcing and blending (the focus of systems like Givaudan’s Carto and IFF’s ScentChat ) to molecular generative design—a path toward a predictable, high-purity, and chemically optimized future for fragrance and flavor ingredients.