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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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Coty Taps Fragrance Community as Prestige Business Shows Signs of Recovery

Fragrance launches including Burberry Goddess Amber Vanilla and Kylie Jenner's Mood Stones collection are contributing to momentum, while the company plans additional fragrance investment across its portfolio.

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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

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

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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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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

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.

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PHOTOS: Bath & Body Works Unveils Feel Good Stores as Retail Reinvention Accelerates

New concept puts fragrance discovery at the heart of the shopping experience as the retailer refreshes its brand, accelerates product innovation and looks beyond its traditional store network for growth.

Bath & Body Works’ Drops Platform Turns Fragrance Into a Fast-Moving Experiment

Hype Lab’s limited-edition scents sold out in three minutes, giving the retailer a new way to test cultural trends, capture consumer feedback and identify fragrance concepts with potential to scale.

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Inside dsm-firmenich’s New NYC Fragrance Hub: Executives on Tech, Creativity and Cultural Collaboration

The facility combines perfumery, fragrance development, applications, digital capabilities and compounding under one roof.

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Three Fragrance Standouts from TFWA Cannes 2026

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Finding “Another Way” in China’s Evolving Fragrance Market: a Q&A with Alex Wu

"If someone leaves Notes Shanghai with one new possibility for their next creation—something they had not considered before—I think that is enough."

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Laura Geller Beauty Enters Fragrance With Tuscan Sun

Tuscan Sun Eau de Toilette was created by Givaudan perfumer Jacques Huclier.

Finding Her Signature in Fragrance