Kilian Paris has opened a shop at the renowned Hôtel Plaza Athénée, creating an exclusive olfactory experience. The brand celebrates 15 years in business and has 34 fragrances in its collection. Over these fifteen years, the brand has created key fragrances, from Good Girl Gone Bad, to Love Don't Be Shy to Black Phantom. “We only need five fragrances to account for 50% of our business, when many of our competitors have a perfume that makes up 50, 60, sometimes 90 percent of their business” said founder Kilian Hennessy.

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Perfumery companies are working towards greater sustainability, to make eco-friendly fragrances a reality through biodegradable packaging, a focus on social responsibility or the increasing use of synthetic raw materials.
Says fragrance expert Karen Gilber: “There is a tendency to believe that natural is safer than synthetic, and as much as I'd like it to be true, it just isn't, for example because natural materials are highly concentrated and rich in allergens".

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Students at France's top fragrance schools will now be part of the evaluation team thanks to a new partnership between app The Perfumist and the ESP, ISIPCA and GIP.

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Multi-purpose product Florida Water, a type of eau de cologne with a regional cult following, is having a moment in the limelight again.

Sales of prestige fragrances recorded a 20% increase in the selective channel (perfumes, department stores and specialist e-shops of prestige) in France during the first eight months of the year, according to a report by The NPD Group. A rate well above that of the whole of 2021 when sales had increased by 11%, restricted by subsequent lockdowns during the first half of the year. Consumers show a preference for more concentrated perfumes. In fact, eau de parfum sales increased by 23% compared to the same period last year and increased by 12% compared to 2019.