Luxury beauty brand Elizabeth Arden's success in China’s travel retail channel has been attributed to its emphasis on brand storytelling, a key factor that has resonated with the modern Chinese woman.
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The study, which examined approximately 3,000 in-use fragrance ingredients, determined that ‘for 76% of fragrance-producing ingredients, the systemic exposure experienced by the highest-end users falls below the Threshold of Toxic Concern (TTC) levels,...
The French American beauty company Coty saw its sales up 13% on a like-for-like basis (LFL) for the second quarter of its fiscal year, and up by 14% LFL for the first half.
With a focus on authenticity and strong social media presence to drive growth, celeb beauty brands are setting the stage for success in the beauty industry in 2024.
The renewal and extension of successful licensing partnerships with top German fragrance brands will help to further strengthen the beauty company’s market share.
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We spoke to the founder of Dutch lifestyle brand Rituals Cosmetics, Raymond Cloosterman, about business expansion, travel-retail and trends in the wellness space.
Fragrance discovery is all about hooking consumers with imaginative and creative sampling ideas. The latest research from market intelligence provider Mintel suggests that getting this formula right is key to consumers engaging in in-store experimentation...
Home fragrance was a hot topic at LuxePack this year in the Monaco Grimaldi Forum. One talk discussed vital considerations for brands who wish to create products in this category.
With 10-12% increases in core like-for-like sales growth for the first half of FY24, beauty giant Coty is celebrating the success of its prestige fragrances in key markets and is raising its outlook for the full financial year.
High-end fashion and fragrance brand Carolina Herrera is expanding into cosmetics with its Herrera Beauty line and reaching new audiences through the highly trafficked airport space.
American beauty multinational Coty is targeting further growth for Burberry Beauty in China after recent successes in makeup and fragrance, alongside the impending launch of its first refillable perfume bottle.
Moodify (Re)formulation technology enables PBC product manufacturers and formulators to adjust fragrance formulas through an algorithm-based app that suggests replacement options “based on their level of similarity to the original molecule while optimizing...
From a launch inspired by the smash hit Barbie movie to hair, lip, and lash care and more, this month’s Launch Pad is packed with product launches to celebrate the sizzling summer months.
From fragrance to cosmetics, personal care products and more, there’s a wide range of new product launches that have been released in the last few weeks. Check out this month’s Launch Pad roundup to review the options that can help consumers have a sensational...
Cosmetic and personal care product manufacturers have the opportunity to add additional benefits to product formulations through the use of Robertet ActiScent options, including ‘anti-aging’, ‘slimming’ effects and more.
Michael Malul London will now serve consumers in twenty-four countries through collaboration with international DTC eCommerce company ESW, who solves multiple pain points for the company’s global brand expansion.
The seasons are changing and so are the unique skin, face, and hair care needs of consumers. This spring, several companies are launching or have recently launched products to help consumers prepare for the warmer months ahead.
Singaporean fragrance brand Scent by SX has lauded the customer-centric business model of US multi-brand retailer Showfields in helping tackle challenges such as rising manpower costs to the emergence of the Metaverse.
As consumers return to in-store shopping in droves, the Annual Flower Show partnership aims to ‘expand fragrances beyond the bottle’ and provide a new twist on the consumer experience of purchasing fragrance products.
International beauty major Coty has filed a patent on a method to refill empty fragrance containers in-store, using a station that blends fragrance concentrate, distilled water and ethanol on-demand.
The fragrance and wider beauty industry must act now amidst an ongoing climate crisis and mass extinction of fauna and flora, working to collect environmental impact data and collaborate for true sustainable change, says the VP of conscious perfumery...
Beauty major Coty is utilising consumer insights from Chloe’s LazMall launch to fine-tune Hugo BOSS’s debut on the South East Asian e-commerce platform.
The University of Lisbon is working to build a database of brain responses to individual fragrances to help industry better predict how consumers will respond to perfumes or scented beauty products.
The fragrance category has evolved to become an essential category for wellness as well as self-expression, according to exclusive insights from major players like Coty, along with a line-up of exciting niche labels.
A fragrance label from Singapore has released a line of hand sanitisers with prebiotics to keep up with the post-pandemic premiumisation of the hand care category.
Humans have been creating personal care products for more than 9,000 years, and one of the first fragrance ingredients may have cosmetic potential today.
The fragrance market was projected to be worth over $30 billion globally in 2021, and more small perfume and cologne brands are entering the fray everyday.
Consumers worldwide will have very similar neural responses to fragrances, but it’s the cognitive associations of these scents that creates interesting nuances for beauty to investigate, says a leading experimental psychologist.
Consumers live in a multisensory world where perception and experiences are defined by the human senses, and the beauty industry must keep this front-of-mind during product design and development, says a leading experimental psychologist.
After a recent acquisition, fragrance brand Commodity is ready to rebrand to both hover between niche and mainstream perfume and innovate for American consumers.
Consumer engagement in the fragrance category is growing worldwide, fuelled by interest in wellbeing and mood but also seduction as people start to socialise again, says the CEO of L’Oréal.
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Beauty must hasten sustainability action in the face of current biodiversity and climate crises, and collaboration will be a critical way forward along with focus on regenerative agriculture, says the chief sustainability officer at LVMH’s Parfums Christian...
As Quintis and other companies grow sandalwood in Australia, making it possible to ethically source the ingredient, more potentials in personal care are being uncovered.
The founders of Myanmar-based Gabar have revealed how they overcame the physical challenges of being separated from each other – and their team of perfumers – to create fragrances that could authentically represent their country and culture.
While fragrance isn’t exclusive to the personal care and cosmetics market, it is an essential element with trends industry professionals should know about.
American multinational Coty Inc says e-commerce will be crucial in the South East Asian market as it aims to deliver “high double-digit growth” for its portfolio of fragrance brands.