SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP — Director's Dealing 2003

May 23, 2003

SEC Form 4 — Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: SENSIENT TECHNOLOGIES CORP (SXT)
CIK: 0000310142
Period of Report: 2003-05-21

Reporting Person: MANNING KENNETH P (Chairman, Pres. and CEO)

Footnotes

F1: Exercise of in-the-money employee stock option that would otherwise expire on 9/13/2003, exempt from Section 16(b) by virtue of Rule 16b-6(b) and Rule 16b-3(d) and (e).

F2: Includes shares of restricted stock held under the Company's 1998 stock option plan.

F3: As of the most recent statement date, Reporting Person also owns the following shares indirectly: 100 shares held by his daughter, 6,917.184 in Company's ESOP; 11,006.85 in Company's Savings Plan; and 30,942.889 in Company's Supplemental Benefit Plan.

F4: Shares sold at an average sales price of $21.5158 per share pursuant to a single sale order. See Table of Transactions attached hereto for details of sales.

F5: See footnotes 2 and 3 above.

F6: Original option grant vested in three equal annual installments beginning on the date listed.