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Givaudan Releases Half-Year Results

Givaudan Group sales increased by 1.3% for the first six months of 2015.

Of Flowers and Fruit

Quest perfumer Christine Nagel has formulated Cartier’s Delices de Cartier. The scent includes notes of jasmine, pink pepper and sandalwood. Givaudan perfumer Caroline Sabas...

Two panelists, one from Macy's and one from Walmart, explore the different strategies their respective companies have been employing to bring beauty customers back to retail.

Inside Macy’s and Walmart’s Beauty Retail Playbook

From adjacencies to indie brands to promotions, these retail giants are pulling out all the stops.

Smiling woman demonstrating skincare products in bright, modern kitchen

Beauty’s Resilience Comes With New Rules: 2025 Sales & Lessons for 2026 from Circana's Latest Data

Prestige unit sales increased at a flat rate, while average selling price was up by 1%.

Estée Lauder Reports Sales of $2.93 Billion for Quarter

Estée Lauder's CEO Fabrizio Freda said of the results, “Our performance this quarter reflected the global appeal of our brands in all regions. These results demonstrate our ability to continue to grow, on top of the double-digit trends we generated in the prior year, even in the face of macroeconomic headwinds and challenges in certain international countries."

Noar's MultiScent 20. Photo Credit: Embalagemmarca.

Brazilian Start-up, Noar, Gains Natura As First Customer

This will be Noar's first product launched on the market.

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Beauty on a Budget: How Consumers Are Redefining Glamor

In response to economic concerns, brands and retailers are expanding their focus on ingredient-driven, value-oriented products.

BoldFace Group Announces Financial Results, Renames Kardashian Brand

Formerly called Khroma Beauty, the flagship beauty brand for BoldFace Group will now be known as "Kardashian Beauty." Also, the company is working on a beauty licensing partnership with Pretty Ugly, LLC.

From left: Artemis Patrick, president of Sephora North America, and Malaika Jones of Brown Girl Jane, the winner of Sephora’s Beauty Grant at the 15 Percent Pledge Gala.

Sephora x The 15 Percent Pledge Bestow Grant on Brown Girl Jane

The grant partnership, unveiled at the 15 Percent Pledge Gala in LA, is part of Sephora's larger project of dedicating at least 15% of shelf space to Black-owned businesses.

This year's cohort reflects several of beauty's fastest-growing trends, including hair longevity, scalp health, performance beauty, science-backed body care, textured hair innovation and founder-led fine fragrance.

Sephora's 2026 Accelerate Cohort Signals What's Next in Prestige Beauty

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Recap: drom At Cosmoprof

Scents inspired by experience.

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Belle-Aire Fragrances Hires New Senior Director

Belle-Aire Fragrances announced Dr. Stella Salisu as the senior director.

Super Premium Beauty on Cusp of a New Era of Growth

The U.K. is about to be leapfrogged by Russia as the highest value market in the world for super premium fragrances, according to new data from Euromonitor International, and this is indicative of a critical shift in global luxury consumption culture, as high net worth individuals from the BRICs set a new and dynamic pace of growth that has major strategic implications for the world’s leading luxury players.

Inter Parfums to Develop Line for Lane Bryant

Inter Parfums will design and manufacture beauty products for Lane Bryant, while Lane Bryant is responsible for marketing, promoting and selling the products, which will be sold under the Cacique brand.

Gindi will join Beauty Accelerate to discuss what new and existing brands need to be thinking about in terms of establishing a solid retail strategy.

Expert Closeup: Sonny Gindi of Stour/Allure Store on Where Beauty Retail Goes Next

Gindi will join Beauty Accelerate to discuss what new and existing brands need to be thinking about in terms of establishing a solid retail strategy.

Holiday Sales Slow Elizabeth Arden Results to $418 Million for Q2 2013

Lower sales in its North American business, as well as in Europe, push down the numbers for Elizabeth Arden for its second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2013.

Focus on Fun in Beauty

The NPD Group's Karen Grant shows how it isn't only functional beauty products that are driving new growth in the prestige beauty segment.

Sephora Buys Interactive Digital Company Scentsa

The acquisition, which builds on a nearly five-year, exclusive partnership between Sephora and Scentsa, includes Scentsa’s custom software and intellectual property rights, making the technology platform proprietary to Sephora.