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Tuesday, May 13

Beauty

Is the Fragrance Effect Still Going Strong?

Since the pandemic, the fragrance category has gone from strength to strength. But is it impervious to the chaotic geopolitical and economic backdrop?

Some answers are finally emerging thanks to the flurry of quarterly corporate earnings coming in. It seems that while on average it's growing, the segment is softening, especially impacting those whose beauty offerings are skewed heavily toward fragrances. In today's WWD, European beauty editor Jennifer Weil and I take a deeper look at what's happening.

Elsewhere, it turns out the deal scene is not dead, with Church & Dwight snapping up Touchland. — Kathryn Hopkins, senior beauty editor, WWD

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