We spent the better part of 20 minutes or so chatting about fragrance trends and ingredient technology, but then [perfumer Olivier] Cresp dropped a beauty bomb in my lap: He told me that cherry perfumes could be coming to an end because of one single ingredient. “Benzaldehyde is going to be totally banned by 2027, so that means already in our formulas, on the counter, we have to withdraw benzaldehyde,” he said. “So that means no almond, no cherry.”

[...] For now, cherry perfumes are here to stay, but perfumers say they’ll likely lean more gourmand than floral or nutty in the years to come. “It’s not going to be the end of the world,” adds [perfumer Jérôme] Epinette.

—  Read more in Are Cherry Perfumes Going Extinct? at Harper's Bazaar.