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Why is Fragrance Outperforming Skin Care?

Highlights from CEW's NPD year in review and trend forecast show just how much changed between 2013 and 2015.

Men’s Skin Care Requires Different Fragrance Approach

For men, looking and smelling good no longer involves just a clean shave and an after-shave lotion. Men’s use of skin care products is growing, and the intent of product function should determine the strength and character of the product’s fragrance.

Masstige beauty accounted for 11% of overall sales, representing a growth rate of 16%, about twice that of mass.

Beauty 2023-2026: Category Blur & Continued Growth

PLUS: Sales totals and trends for makeup, skin care, hair care, fragrance and more.

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1H 2025 Beauty Sales Point to Boom Times for Value and Efficacy

While prestige led hair care and makeup, mass growth dominated fragrance and skin care.

The Spirit of the Brand

Fragrance, or lack thereof, is elemental to brands. GCI magazine asks industry experts to consider fragrancing trends and the role of fragrances in skin care brands.

The Spirit of the Brand

Fragrance, or lack thereof, is elemental to brands. GCI magazine asks industry experts to consider fragrancing trends and the role of fragrances in skin care brands.

Chasing Tomorrow’s Beauty Trends

Track down some of the hottest niche beauty brands in hair and skin care, and learn the trends that are helping them get noticed.

Skin care continues to be a focus of innovation with an emphasis on natural ingredients.

Forward Thinking: Clean Beauty in the Time of COVID-19

Natural skin care products to address COVID-induced concerns like maskne, blue light protection and hand care.

3 Ways AI is Reshaping Beauty: from Fragrance to Sun Care

Medical-grade skin care, fine fragrance ingredients and sunscreen usage are being disrupted by new AI-powered platforms.

Building the Beauty Industry: What to Expect in M&A in 2014

While the professional skin care market and beauty devices look primed for M&A in 2014, the opportunities are really endless for companies and brands with a well-defined niche.

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ChatGPT: The New Beauty Guru?

New data from Spate unveils how beauty enthusiasts are using ChatGPT across makeup, hair care and skin care, revealing a need for new brand strategies.

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The Beauty 2020-2030 Forecast

What 2019’s results tell us about the next decade in beauty. In this report: skin care, makeup, hair care and fragrance.

Article sponsored by Bio-Botanica Inc.

Beauty 2018-2020: Don’t Fear the Disruption

How industry growth is playing out across makeup, skin care, hair care and fragrance, as reported during the CEW's “State of the Beauty Industry Report 2018-2019."

Eco beauty concepts ruled this year's Indie Beauty Expo, including a range of food-inspired concepts.

[slideshow & podcast] The Beauty of Food Rules at the Indie Beauty Expo

On this edition of The Business of Beautiful: Edible and food-inspired brands and eco-luxury dominated the latest edition of this must-attend show, including skin fasting, watermelon seed beauty, facial smoothies, climate-built skin care and more.

Starting Point: All in the Family

We cover a lot of ground here in the pages of GCI magazine, from skin care and fine fragrance to hair care and home fragrance, sometimes all in the same issue. Last month, we honored P&G as Fragranced Product Marketer of the Year at the HBA Expo for its Dawn Simple Pleasures, a dish soap that is also a home fragrance. Dish soap, you say? But it works, and why it does is probably no surprise.

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Sampling for Better Beauty at the 2013 Cosmoprof North America

The 2013 edition of Cosmoprof North America (CPNA), taking place July 14–16, 2013, at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, is featuring a beauty sampling pavilion called Beautique. Located on the main show floor, the Beautique pavilion will be a one-stop beauty shop for attendees who are looking to pick up deluxe-sized samples, including cosmetic, skin care, nails, hair care and other beauty products.

Beauty's reemergence and recovery in 2021 is marked by staggering shifts in consumer values, retail channels, top-performing categories, ingredient and claims preferences, and much, much more.

The State of Beauty: 2021 & Beyond

Part 1: 2020—What Happened? | Part 2. Fewer Launches, More Growth | Part 3. New Retail Reality | Part 4. Skin Care: Targeted Growth | Part 5. Makeup: Nails Dominate | Part 6. Fragrance: Surprising Resilience | Part 7. Hair Care’s Self-care Moment | Part 8. Beauty’s Growth Drivers | Part 9. China’s Beauty Ascendancy | Part 10. What’s Next for Beauty?

Consumers remain aligned with clean beauty principles of transparency and safety. But they want stronger proof of efficacy and expert-backed recommendations.

Can Clean Brands Survive the Rise of Clinical Beauty?

While clinical brands focus on concrete claims, benefits and evidence, clean beauty has always struggled from a lack of universal definitions, per a new Circana analysis.