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Aug 1 (Reuters) - German flavour and fragrance maker Symrise posted a 6.3% rise in its half-year sales on Thursday, in line with expectations, driven by growth in both of its business areas.

Symrise's revenue rose to 2.57 billion euros ($2.78 billion)in the January-June period from 2.41 billion a year earlier. Analysts polled by Vara Research were expecting 2.56 billion euros on average.

Organic sales, which do not take currency exchange effects into account, increased by 11.5% in the same period.

Symrise, whose fragrances go into the perfumes of French luxury giants LVMH and Kering, reaffirmed its annual targets for organic sales growth of 5% to 7% and an EBITDA margin of around 20%.

"Despite our success in the first half of the year, we are not sitting back. Our good performance in recent months gives us confidence for the second half of the year," CEO Jean-Yves Parisot said in a statement.

Easing destocking trends are supporting flavour and fragrance makers' return to stable volumes, after a wave of inventory reductions and lower demand weighed on volumes throughout last year.

Half-year sales in the scent and care division, which makes fragrance applications, aroma chemicals and cosmetic ingredients, rose 12.1% in the reporting currency to 993 million euros. That was boosted by organic growth in a double-digit percentage at its fine fragrances and consumer fragrances units, it said.

Swiss rival Givaudan last week posted a 12.5% rise in its first-half sales on a like-for-like basis, although its second-quarter growth showed signs of stabilisation after a strong start to the year. ($1 = 0.9236 euros) (Reporting by Antonis Pothitos in Gdansk; Editing by Milla Nissi)