Sustainability
In 2025, we reached a major milestone: 100% of our Perfumery and Beauty & Care ingredients have a product carbon footprint available, based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). Every ingredient in this scope now carries a complete sustainability assessment profile. Much more than a target achieved, this comprehensive data is the foundation of our decarbonization journey.
P&B actively contributes to the Group’s SBTi-validated 2045 net-zero target by embedding sustainability across its entire ingredient and fragrance portfolio. With robust data informing our decisions, we design lower-carbon solutions across three key levers: sourcing lower-impact raw materials; optimizing manufacturing operations to reduce energy use, waste, and emissions; and advancing eco-design to create lower-carbon ingredients, solutions, and fragrances.
This data foundation enables accurate Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) calculations, as well as customer portfolio assessments that support clients in measuring and reducing the carbon impact of their products.
By sharing these insights and solutions with our clients, we not only advance our own carbon-reduction targets but also contribute to lowering emissions across the broader perfumery and beauty industry.
This approach is reflected in innovations ranging from ingredients such as Amberever® Neo, whose high olfactive performance allows perfumers to use less quantity and reduce their overall footprint, to our eco-tools Imp’Act Card™, EcoIngredient Compass®, and EcoScent Compass®.
All LCA and sustainability data is digitally integrated into EcoScent Compass®, making sustainability insights instantly accessible throughout the perfumers’ creative process, guiding informed decisions, from ingredient selection through final formulation.
The industry took notice in the year under review. In recognition of this work, EcoScent Compass® earned both the Beauty Matters Impact Award and the IFEAT Award in 2025, highlighting how data, innovation, and eco-design can combine to drive meaningful progress and deliver positive impact.
This progress is reinforced by our responsible sourcing commitment. Our Due Diligence framework, audited and recognized by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), keeps us on track with our 2030 roadmap. In 2025, we expanded and deepened our on-site due diligence across key P&B Naturals. We also broadened our portfolio of certifications, further strengthening transparency, collaboration, and supplier performance across the value chain.
Innovation
Powered by our science-based innovations in P&B, we make our customers’ products more essential, desirable, and sustainable, positively influencing consumer preferences. Our innovations pave the way for our success, and 2025 was marked by milestones in neuroscience and malodor control.
In September, we launched emotiOn™ social connection – a first-of-its-kind fragrance innovation designed to boost social bravery and spark human connections. It blends emotional expertise, data intelligence, and behavioral science to create fragrances that help bring us closer to each other. emotiOn™ social connection has been developed as part of our emotiOn™ program, rooted in more than 30 years of neuroscientific research and co-developed with leading academic institutions.
In the area of malodor control, we leveraged cutting-edge science to develop Clearsense® for the effective neutralization of bad odors in everyday life. This innovation gives consumers an exceptional scent experience, with applications in home categories, deodorants, and oral care products. We also made advances in oral care masking technology with Truescreen™ zinc. This innovation unveils the true potential of flavors by effectively masking unwanted notes from zinc.
Partnerships
We take pride in bringing fragrance closer to consumers through collaborations with different organizations that share our passion and vision. In November, we collaborated with one of the most prestigious museums in Paris, the Petit Palais, for their exhibition on the works of Pekka Halonen (1865–1933), a major figure of the Finnish Golden Age. The exhibition featured more than 130 works and was designed as a true sensory experience. Our perfumer Daphné Bugey created bespoke fragrances and designed olfactory installations exclusively for this exhibition.
We also turned our focus to Grasse, the cradle of perfumery and the home of our creative atelier, Villa Botanica. We hosted partner events with The Colors, an ecosystem dedicated to multicultural cosmetics and perfumery, and the Value of Beauty Alliance (VOB), an organization of industry leaders that aims to spotlight the industry’s positive impact on both society and the economy at the European level. For The Colors, as part of Grasse Perfume Week, it was an intimate workshop with perfumers and journalists, exchanging ideas and olfactive vision, featuring ingredients originating from Africa. For VOB, it was a video campaign highlighting our footprint and history in Grasse. The series gives insights into how experts collaborate with farmers and researchers to bring the fragrance industry’s sustainable vision to life.