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U.S. 9-Month Beauty Sales Top $82.9B as Fragrance, Skin Care Drive Growth

Mass-market fragrance sales climbed 15%, making it one of the strongest-performing categories across beauty.

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Engineered Organic Frameworks Offer Tunable Fragrance Release

Carrier chemistry could be matched to the molecular properties of individual fragrance ingredients to achieve specific loading and release profiles.

AI Model Reportedly Opens New Path to Discovering Novel Fragrance and Flavor Molecules

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Coty Taps Fragrance Community as Prestige Business Shows Signs of Recovery

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Body Mist Beats Designer Fragrance as LookFantastic's 2026 Best-Seller; Black Opium Sales Surge 309%

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Givaudan Brings Neuroscience Into Fragrance Design With HarmoniScentz

Award winner receives certificate at German Award for Young Perfumers 2026 ceremony with two presenters on podium

Iberchem Perfumer Wins German Award for Young Perfumers With Coastal-Inspired Cologne

Neha Okhade on the Spark That Brings a Fragrance to Life

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Laundry Fragrance’s Next Act: From 'Fresh' to Fine Fragrance

From sensitive-skin detergents with light fragrance to fine-fragrance-inspired scent boosters, recent launches point to a more nuanced olfactive landscape for fabric care.

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Fragrance Tech Gets Smarter, Longer-Lasting and More Flexible

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Estée Lauder Raises Growth Outlook as Fragrance Surges 20%, Microsoft Partnership Targets AI Efficiency

Geographically, organic sales increased across all regions, led by Asia/Pacific, up 10%, and Mainland China, up 9%.

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Why AI Sometimes Gets Perfume Notes Wrong

Depending on the AI platform, answers about designer perfumes were 22 to 32 percentage points more likely to include notes absent from official listings.

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Berjé and Waterfall Health Farms Win IFEAT Sustainability Award for Buchu Model

The partnership incorporates an access and benefit sharing framework, allocating a budget equivalent to 4% of turnover to community benefits.

RIFM: The Science Behind Confident Decisions: RIFM's 5th Annual Science Symposium

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Grasse’s Fragrance Legacy Gets a Modern Makeover

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BREAKING: Perfumer & Flavorist+ and the British Society of Perfumers Team Up to Launch New Perfumer Sensory Panel

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Zalabí Wins IFEAT 2026 Sustainability Awards People’s Choice Vote

How Zalabí's integrated sustainability approach won global industry recognition and votes.

Interparfums Q3 Sales Flat as Coach and Montblanc Drive Growth

The fragrance group's European-based operations delivered the strongest regional performance in the third quarter, with sales rising 4% to $306 million.

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Merit Taps Dominique Ropion and Meabh McCurtin to Capture Extrait Boom with Solar-Inspired Scent

The fragrance was inspired by an afternoon at Paris’ Musée Picasso and the spirit of surrealist art.