Fragrance & cosmetics
Diptyque unveils customizable travel spray
New products from French brand Diptyque put packaging front and center. We take a closer look at the novelties, from refillable formats to travel sprays that can be personalized using Scrabble-like tiles. This month, Diptyque is rolling out a[…]
Guerlain’s Météorites highlighter palette
French brand Guerlain (LVMH) has unveiled the first highlighter palette under its Météorites franchise. The Pearl Dust Palette contains three shades of pressed powder than can be used as a blush or eyeshadow. The compact (Texen) housing the[…]
Gallinée rolls out first beauty supplements
French microbiome-focused skincare brand Gallinée, supported by Unilever Ventures, launched its first beauty supplements this month. As with the brand’s topical skincare products, the supplements designed for sensitive skin contain prebiotics,[…]
Armani’s My Way: a fragrance with ambitious green targets
Giorgio Armani Beauty (L’Oréal) has unveiled My Way, a major new women’s fragrance with an eco-design approach that is said to embody the brand’s ambitions in the sustainability realm. The L’Oréal Luxe brand explains that My Way’s packaging[…]
Sophrology meets cosmetics
New French brand Ressource Corps-Mental is betting on body and mind as it launches into a new segment it is pioneering: sophro-cosmetics. Founder Claire Millier, a cosmetics industry veteran and certified sophrologist and stress management[…]
Atelier Cologne’s collector flacon
Fragrance brand Atelier Cologne (L’Oréal) has called on artist Quentin Monge to create a limited-edition flacon for its best-selling Clémentine California cologne absolue. The artist created an illustration for the bottle’s label that was[…]
Lalique unveils 2020 Hirondelles collector’s edition
The sapphire blue collector’s edition of crystal maker Lalique’s famed Hirondelles flacon celebrates the 100th anniversary of Réné Lalique’s villa in Wingen-sur-Mer in France. Four glassmakers were needed to create the body of the 20ml flacon,[…]
Irresistible Givenchy reinterprets the prism
Irresistible, the latest women’s fragrance from Givenchy, comes in a faceted glass bottle that reinterprets the prism, a hallmark of the LVMH-owned brand. Givenchy worked with Paris-based design agency Cent Degrés to create a bottle that it[…]
Cire Trudon launches L’Oeuf fragrance diffuser
French candlemaker Cire Trudon has launched L’Oeuf, an egg-shaped cabinets of curiosities-style diffuser made of bisque porcelain and turned wood. “There is a demand for objects that perfume in a passive manner, in other words, without a flame.[…]
Courrèges’ Colognes Imaginaires takes an eco-friendly stance
Colognes Imaginaires is a line of four scents that puts sustainable packaging front and center from the bottle to the secondary pack. The unisex eaux de parfums are housed in an oval flacon (Coverpla’s Verdi model from Bormioli Luigi’s Ecoline[…]
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71%
percentage of women who wear makeup in the US who say they are doing so less often due to "covid-19 lifestyle changes" (source NPD Group)