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Last week, The Fragrance Foundation announced its Awards for 2026, the industry’s main event for recognizing creativity among brands, perfumers and manufacturers. The ceremony includes a public prize, based on an online survey of a few thousand consumers but as I wanted a clearer picture of what people preferred among recent perfumes, I pulled and…
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The global beauty industry grew 8% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, according to data from NielsenIQ’s “Beauty E-commerce 2026: The New Rules of Growth” webinar. The overall number matters less than where it came from.
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Nielsen’s 2026 ranking of top online beauty merchants in Western Europe, based on a consumer panel through the end of April, confirms one trend from last year and introduces a new one.
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At the 2026 Fragrance Foundation Awards, L’Oréal won eight prizes across five brands Valentino, Miu Miu, Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, and Ralph Lauren which makes the group last year’s 3 wins look modest by comparison. Estée Lauder held its ground with three wins (Tom Ford Oud Voyager, Jo Malone Beach Blossom, and Frédéric Malle Portrait…
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From Jay-Z looking to buy LVMH stake in Fenty Beauty to the first new sunscreen ingredient approved by the FDA in decades this was last week in beauty.
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Retreated data from an early 2026 YouGov survey show that more than 40% of adult Americans do not spend anything on skincare. The gender split sharpens this further. The same data shows men are more than twice as likely as women to say they spend nothing on skincare in a given month. Another 35% spend…
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We are all increasingly relying on AI recommendations and the data backs it. According to PartnerCentric, nearly a third of US consumers say beauty is one of the categories where they expect to use AI tools to shop in 2026. This looks like a validation for the beauty industry players that have been increasingly investing…
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Last week I published a post on Korea’s rise as the second largest global beauty exporter, surpassing the USA for the first time in 2025 at €10bn.
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When looking at the most successful haircare brands on social media in the US, there has been some significant shift over the last year based on CreatorIQ’s Earned Media Value, an indicator that estimates the monetary value of a brand’s organic social media activity.
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The ranking of the top makeup brands with the biggest organic social media impact in the US versus one year ago has experienced some notable shift according to data based on CreatorIQ’s Earn Media Value, an indicator that estimates monetary value of a brand’s organic social media activity.