Deal Flow

LVMH Luxury Ventures Steps Into Niche Fragrance With BDK Parfums Minority Stake

LVMH Luxury Ventures, the venture arm of Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, has bought a minority stake in BDK Parfums, betting that the niche fragrance category’s momentum will persist and the budding house can become a lasting star....
Deal Flow

Monogram Capital Acquires Majority Stake In Luckyscent To Scale Scent Bar Retail Footprint

Monogram Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Luckyscent, the 23-year-old e-commerce pioneer turned specialty retailer that’s earned a devoted following for its vast niche perfume assortment and role as a curatorial authority in the...
Brand Report

Former Ulta Beauty Exec Launches Fragrance-Powered Body Care Brand PurelyYou

Amid the daily hustle and bustle, taking a moment to coat her skin with a body care product has always been a welcome reprieve for Lauren McDonald, a retail consultant and former senior director of store operations...
No Stupid Questions

Is Radical Manufacturing Transparency Feasible Or A Fantasy In Clean Beauty 2.0?

In a framework for clean beauty 2.0 outlined in the publication BeautyMatter last month, Annie Jackson, co-founder and CEO of Credo Beauty, and Matthew Perkins, founder and CEO of Macro Oceans, name radical transparency in...
Full Disclosure

Ritual’s Lindsay Dahl Navigates Deep Political Divides To Find Common Ground On Product Safety

Consumer safety advocate Lindsay Dahl, chief impact officer at Ritual and former head of mission at Beautycounter, starts her new book, “Cleaning House: The Fight to Rid Our Homes of Toxic Chemicals,” with a Target run...
Beauty Tech

This Smart Mirror Promises To Make Recreating Beauty Tutorials Foolproof

Many women have some version of Jacqueline Raich’s wedding makeup disaster story. She wanted to wear a spunky green eyeshadow look to her friend’s wedding in May last year and searched for the perfect online tutorial to recreate...
No Stupid Questions

From C-Suite To VC: Can Beauty’s Star Executives Succeed As Investors?

The beauty executive-to-investor pipeline is bursting. A week ago, Jane Lauder, the former president of Clinique who spent three decades at Estée Lauder, the company founded by her grandmother, announced she’s starting