AARAV Fragrances & Flavors appoints Mayur Kapse as Fragrances COO

Mayur Kapse will lead commercial and operational growth for AARAV Fragrances & Flavors’ Fragrances division, with a focus on customer partnerships and expansion across FMCG and food-and-beverage clients.

— Source publishedMon, 7 Sept, 2026, 10:30 IST·First seen Mon, 7 Sept, 2026, 10:44 IST·Source The Hindu BusinessLine

What happened

AARAV Fragrances & Flavors appointed Mayur Kapse as COO for its Fragrances division in Thane to lead commercial and operational growth, strengthen customer

Key facts

  • ₹350+ crore business size
  • 300+ employees
  • 30+ countries served
  • 18+ years of industry experience
  • 100+ years of promoter-family legacy
  • Established in 2007

Why this matters

AARAV’s strengthened Fragrances leadership may make it a more capable partnership, supply-chain, or strategic collaboration candidate for consumer-products players.

What to watch

  • Announcements of new FMCG, personal-care, home-care, or beverage customer wins.
  • Hiring for R&D, application labs, key accounts, plant operations, procurement, or quality roles.
  • Capex, facility expansion, new manufacturing certifications, or additional laboratory capacity.
  • Launches of sustainable, natural, compliant, or cost-optimized fragrance offerings.
  • Evidence of cross-selling or joint customer programs between the fragrances and flavors divisions.
  • Changes in aroma-chemical availability, import costs, or customer pricing pressure.
  • Add commercial or technical-sales hires focused on FMCG, home care, personal care, and food-and-beverage accounts.
  • Invest in fragrance application, formulation, testing, quality, and customer-development capabilities.
  • Pursue new regional distribution partnerships or expand direct coverage beyond the Mumbai-Thane base.
  • Increase focus on key-account contracts, co-development programs, and faster sampling-to-commercialization timelines.
  • Evaluate production, warehousing, and raw-material sourcing upgrades as order volumes rise.