Sustainability
Our dedicated Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) team has been screening our palette by tracking all 16 PEFCR LCA indicators aligned with global standards. This enables us to deliver robust carbon footprint data and tailored roadmaps for carbon reduction, supporting customers on their journey to net-zero. The advanced LCA data, which covers 98% of our ingredient portfolio was integrated into EcoScent Compass™, our science-based impact measurement eco-fragrance tool, allowing our perfumers to incorporate sustainability from the outset, and to select lower-impact ingredients, driving eco-conscious creation. Launched in 2018, it was expanded in 2023 to include 45 distinct fragrances and 20 ingredients claims, and is now advancing further with optimized data.
By focusing on ingredient discovery to optimize and future-proof our palette, we can create high-performance, renewable and biodegradable ingredients from biotech. These include CLEARWOOD® PRISMA and upcycled materials such as dihydroestragole RC, to lower carbon footprints. Advanced eco-extraction technologies, such as Firgood® also offer 100% natural extracts via a solvent-free, sustainable electromagnetic vibration process.
Innovation
Backed by our expertise in Science & Research, HaloScent® is the fragrance amplifier that has pioneered profragrances since 1997. It is our proprietary and patented technology, activated by nature, and proven to deliver more noticeable and more delightful fragrances. In 2024, we strengthened our leadership in biodegradable profragrances by launching HaloScent® Pure you, the first profragrance specifically designed for performance in fine fragrance applications, which provides a personalized scent signal tailored by the skin microbiome. HaloScent® Pure you activates within minutes, and lasts throughout the day.
Popscent® eco is our most advanced generation of patented encapsulation technology, which delivers a top-performing, long-lasting fragrance while adhering to the highest sustainability standards. With stronger regulations and growing sustainability concerns, we are seeing broad adoption of our Popscent® eco range from global and local clients. In February, we launched Sunsense3 to address the importance of suncare for cancer prevention and skin protection and to realize our vision of transforming sun protection into a daily indulgence. The concept was brought to life with a line-up of the best of Beauty & Care’s extensive UV protection portfolio and their expertise in sun protection, combined with Perfumery’s innovation capabilities in fragrance.
Honoring our history of Ingredients innovation, our Firgood® extraction technology won the 2024 Editor’s Award for Supplier Innovation, while our Jasmine Flower India SFE Abs won the 2024 Perfumery Ingredient Award from Cosmétique Mag, in France. This ingredient is part of our 2024 Sharing Innovation collection, launched at the World Perfumery Congress in Geneva (Switzerland).
‘Sharing Innovation’ is a collection of perfumery ingredients that demonstrates our rich history of breakthrough scientific innovations and our expertise in natural extraction, as well as our sustainability drive. This year’s collection featured six new ingredients, including CLEARWOOD® PRISMA, a formerly captive biotech ingredient launched in celebration of the 10th anniversary of CLEARWOOD®, one of our iconic, sustainable biotech ingredients.
Partnerships
In 2024, we joined the Value of Beauty Alliance, which brings together key leaders from the European beauty and personal care value chain to raise awareness of our industry’s economic and social impact. Members include L’Oréal, Beiersdorf, and PUIG. This platform showcases how our scientific leadership, cutting-edge innovations, and industry experts together help to shape the future. We also joined The Colors, an ecosystem dedicated to multicultural cosmetics and perfumery, which brings together companies, startups, and institutions around a common issue: promoting an inclusive offer. In October, we gathered industry leaders, some of our customers from multi-cultural fragrance brands, and members of the Fragrance Foundation US at the French Consulate in New York City (USA) for an event that facilitated an exchange of ideas on how to better understand and address the diverse needs of consumers from different cultural backgrounds.
