Independent trade intelligence

Perfumery, cosmetics and raw materials. Sourcing, market, regulation and the actors across Africa, the Gulf and Asia.

LiaKea® Beauty Tribe
ReferenceAbout usLog inSign upRaw Materials & OriginsMarket & PricingRegulation & ComplianceActors & PartnershipsEventsEmerging Brands & Small Players

Where it comes from

Grasse

French flower harvests, and what climate pressure does to them.

Analysis on Grasse

6 pieces

Two Provence fields side by side under the same sky: on the left Lavandula angustifolia, sparse rows with bare earth showing between the plants, marked true lavender field, yield 20 kg per hectare; on the right Lavandula x intermedia, dense continuous rows of deep purple, marked lavandin field, yield 150 kg per hectare
Raw Materials & Origins

Lavender or lavandin: what the yields decide

A perfumer's bench by a window: beakers and flasks of tinted oils, amber apothecary bottles, a brass balance weighing one small vial against another, filled but unlabelled fragrance bottles, a stack of plain white unbranded boxes, raw materials laid on linen including jasmine buds, lichen and dried roots, and an open notebook with a fountain pen resting on blank pages
Emerging Brands & Small Players

Niche or independent: who controls what?

Illustrated balance scale tipped heavily toward the European side: a tall stack of binders labelled regulation dossier, conformity dossier, compliance file and safety assessment, annotated Annex II 1,700+ banned substances, 82 allergens on label and pre-market approval. The lighter American side holds a single FDA and MoCRA folder marked ten banned substances, fragrance as one word and post-market surveillance, with loose state regulation papers for California and New York beside it
Regulation & Compliance

EU cosmetic regulation vs US: what MoCRA leaves out

Composite illustration: a woman picking ylang-ylang flowers into a basket, surrounded by certificates and pinned notes reading BIO, CITES OK and ISO 16128 98%, alongside a perfume bottle and agarwood chips, while a hand holds up a tablet displaying the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal tiles
Regulation & Compliance

Sustainable fragrance: CITES, traceability, and who pays

Illustrated balance weighing marketing claims against technical reality: on the left a Provencal village, a lavender field, a bottle labelled made in Grasse and a 95% natural cloud rising from a shipping container; on the right a filling plant, a roll-on perfume oil, a musk molecule marked musk? and a tin of TCD Alcohol DM marked alcohol-free solvent?
Regulation & Compliance

Perfumery's small arrangements: musk, alcohol-free, Grasse

Wilted rose bushes growing out of cracked, drought-parched earth in a fragrance-crop field
Market & Pricing

What climate does to perfume raw material prices

Get the Africa-Gulf-Asia sourcing brief

Raw materials, market, regulation and the actors worth watching: a digest, not a deluge of emails.

Partner with us
Newsletter

Get the Africa-Gulf-Asia sourcing brief

Raw materials, market, regulation and the actors worth watching: a digest, not a deluge of emails.