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The Hero Playbook: How Beauty Leaders Balance Iconic Staples with High-Impact Innovation

Fourteen conversations with beauty leaders reveal how to protect and renovate core bestsellers, engineer clinical efficacy, build genuine cultural equity, and turn single-product hits into enduring multi-category franchises.

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The New Standard in Effective Skin Care

Spark: October/ November 2026

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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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Japanese Skin Care Brand Boscia Makes A Comeback

Beauty accelerator, The Center Brands acquires Japanese skincare brand, Boscia, with a Q1 2027 relaunch planned.

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L’Oréal Accelerates Growth in Q3 as Premium Hair Care, Skin Care and Emerging Markets Power Sales

The group's adjusted like-for-like growth accelerated to 7.7% in the third quarter, compared with 6.9% for the first nine months.

Puig Hits Record €1.39 Billion in Q3, Driven by Makeup and APAC Demand

Puig's core fragrance and fashion division—which represents nearly three-quarters of total group revenue—grew 3.9% organically in Q3 to €985.8 million.

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Odile Roujol on the New Beauty Investment Thesis: From Skin Deep to Healthspan

Roujol sees beauty's biggest opportunities emerging where science, technology and consumer behavior meet from biomarker tracking and personalized health to noninvasive procedures, functional beauty and, perhaps most significantly, longevity and healthspan.

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Berlin Packaging, Ininum Take Formes de Luxe Award for AI-Powered Fragrance Device

The cylindrical device combines Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity, NFC-enabled fragrance pod recognition, app-controlled scent blending and AI-powered fragrance recommendations.

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Coty Names Kara Langan U.S. Consumer Beauty General Manager, Adds Vanessa Kidd to Global Fragrance Leadership

According to Coty, the appointments reflect its continued investment in talent and capabilities to support growth across its Consumer Beauty portfolio.

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Meet Lenose: The New Face in Home Fragrance

Backed by Aesop’s Early Investors, Former Hit-Makers From Bubble Skincare Enter the Fragrance Market with $10 “Soap de Parfum" Crafted by World-Class Perfumers

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Think Like a Machine: Estée Lauder Takes GEO Global With Profound Partnership

In generative search, consumers increasingly ask an AI assistant to interpret their needs and deliver a recommendation.

L’Oréal Looks to K-Beauty for Next-Generation Innovation

K-beauty influence is increasingly moving beyond individual product trends toward formulation, sensory design and the development process itself.

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The Next Generation of Beauty Packaging: Designing for Gens Z and Alpha

The companies that thrive will be those that treat packaging as a strategic business asset rather than simply a container.

Hair Care Splits in Two: Value Wins at Mass, Treatments Take Off in Prestige

From value-packed basics to $120 longevity serums, hair care is rewriting the rules.

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Body Care Gets Smarter: From Skinification to Wellness, Climate Resilience and Waterless Innovation

From serums to sustainable soak: body care is shedding basic moisturizer status with climate-conscious actives and personalized performance innovations.

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Estée Lauder Reshapes Luxury Brand Leadership as Sandra Main Prepares to Retire

Justin Boxford takes expanded luxury portfolio; Erica Kwok named Estée Lauder GM and Magalie Parksuwan expands La Mer remit.

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Ice Spice Launches Debut Fragrance at Ulta Beauty

Behind Ice Spices' debut fragrance, In Ha Mood.