Roman Kaiser

Roman Kaiser (born in Kirchberg SG on 15 July 1945) is a Swiss fragrance chemist.

Since 1968 he has been working at Givaudan, the world's largest company in the flavour and fragrance industry, where he analyzes and reconstitutes natural scents for use in perfumery using the headspace technology which he pioneered and which as a new concept made significant impact on the analysis of natural products.

Following his chemistry studies at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences he joined the research center of Givaudan in Dübendorf near Zürich in 1968, and since then has been working as a fragrance chemist in this company.

For this purpose, he has since 1975 applied the headspace technology which leaves the plant and its flowers intact by analyzing the surrounding air with the help of gas chromatography.

[1] He is considered one of the pioneers of this method, and many of the accords reconstituted by him have found use in internationally renowned fragrances.