The spot for Juliette Has A Gun Pear Inc.
Guerlain Nettare Di Sole & Flora Salvaggia ~ new fragrances
Guerlain has launched Nettare Di Sole and Flora Salvaggia, two new additions to the Aqua Allegoria line…
Friday scent of the day 4/2
Happy International Children’s Book Day (aka Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday)! Our community project for today: name a favorite children’s book and wear a fragrance to match.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
Today I went with a children’s book I did not read until I was an adult: The Golden Compass (the title is Northern Lights in some markets) by Philip Pullman. To capture the Frozen North, I’m wearing The Different Company De Bachmakov…
There is good news
...women’s fragrance sales fell 3.7% to $619.8 million in US supermarkets, drugstores, mass market retailers, military commissaries and select club and dollar retail chains for the 52 weeks ended Jan. 24. 2021.
[...] For the 52 weeks ended July 12, 2020, candle sales rose 16.9% to $1.59 billion at US multi-outlets (grocery, drug, mass market, military and select club and dollar retailers) and home air freshener sales jumped 9.6% to $2.31 billion, according to data from Information Resources, Inc.
[...] US prestige beauty sales fell as well; the sector generated sales of $16.1 billion in 2020, a 19% decline compared to the year prior, according to The NPD Group. The fragrance category dipped 8%, according to the report. But, there is good news! Fragrance, while down for the year, declined at the slowest rate in the prestige beauty category, as it was helped along by a second half rebound in fragrance sales...
—Read more in Will Mother's Day Lift Fragrance Sales? at Happi.
The damage so far: first quarter 2021 buying poll
Tax day might be postponed, again, but Donatella, Our Lady of Creative Perfume Math,1, despite being awfully busy with her Medusa Power Talks and Shanghai pop-up, did not want to postpone her quarterly visit to hear the confessions of her flock. She’d very much like to know what you bought in the 1st quarter (January, February and March) of 2021.
Note that if you have javascript disabled, you won’t be able to vote in the poll, but you can still record your purchases in the comments…