Who we are

Orissa, since January 2024 part of Will&Co group, works as a technical and commercial mediator between specialty chemicals producers, and the manufacturing industry in the Benelux market. We are commercial partner of well known international manufacturers of specialty chemicals for the personal care, home care, I&I, technical and health care industry.

Our portfolio contains, amongst many ingredients, fragrances, functional ingredients, specialty ingredients, active ingredients etc…for the named application markets.

This portfolio gives us the opportunity to offer customers high quality ingredients, formulation concepts and actual market trends. Our customers are multinationals, local brands, retailers, private label and contract manufacturers.

Orissa expresses itself as a reliable partner with knowledge about ingredients, final applications and product markets. “Explore Your Senses”.

Mission and Vision

Compact Dutch-Belgium company with a young – fresh market approach, combining sales and marketing, working for multinationals, retailers and contract manufacturers.

High quality, mainly natural based ingredients, from reliable partners.

This gives our customers not only answers concerning normal product requests, but helps them also, based on our expertise in the cosmetic as well detergents industry, with new market trend information and ideas.

Our history

How the company started….

1978 Foundation Orissa Drebing NL
1978 Representation Orissa Drebing GmbH (Fragrance Resources)
1994 Name change into Orissa Vredevoort Dochters
1994 Start of 100% independency with additional cosmetic ingredient suppliers
1996 Orissa Drebing GmbH taken over by Fragrance Resources
2000 Start of Mariska Vredevoort
2003 New office location: from Dodewaard to Deventer
2004 New company owner Mariska Vredevoort
2011 Philippe de Somere joins the sales team
2015 Start Philippe de Somere as CCO
2015 New office location in Deventer
2018 Orissa’s 40th anniversary
2024 Orissa joined forces with Dutch company Will & Co