Happy Almost-Friday and happy Gingerbread House Day! It’s also Frank Sinatra’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Voyage d’Hermès. Its tiny little thread of ginger only barely justifies the amount of time it took me to find it, and my sample is in less than pristine shape anyway, but so it goes.
Reminder: on 12/13, wear a fragrance with ginger, if you have one…
Black Friday numbers indicate fragrance is off to a strong start this holiday season, with Circana reporting fragrance unit sales grew 11 percent during the week of Black Friday, outpacing the total beauty industry’s unit sales growth of 6 percent.
According to Adobe Digital Insights, sample and discovery sets comprised roughly 27 percent of fragrance sales during the five-day period between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday this year. Steep discounts, meanwhile, drove consumers to purchase fragrance offerings that were “about 26 percent more expensive, on average, than those they were buying in October,” said Vivek Pandya, lead analyst, Adobe Digital Insights.
— Read more in Fragrance Is Beauty’s Bright Spot. How Will the Category Perform This Holiday Season? at Women's Wear Daily via Yahoo! Life.
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Frédéric Malle Portrait of a Lady, introduced in 2010 to celebrate the brand's 10th anniversary, will have its own 15th birthday next year, and here's a red bottle to celebrate. 100 ml for £290 at Liberty London.
Italian niche line Santa Maria Novella has launched Ambra and Incenso, two new fragrances in the brand’s I Giardini Medicei collection…