Perfume

​The UK’s Boots chain could soon be under new ownership, but not as current parent Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) had originally planned.

Despite its conjuring of a cozy, soft brown, not everyone embraced the hue.

Shares in Puig dropped sharply in early Friday trade after the luxury beauty and fashion company said its Charlotte Tilbury brand was voluntarily withdrawing select batches of its make-up setting spray.

Picture London’s Soho in 1962, “a throbbing metropolis bustling with excitement as a new cultural era emerged”. It's when The Rolling Stones debuted at the Marquee Club so to mark the event it's launched... a fragrance.

As part of the long-term beauty license, they will develop, produce and distribute a new vision of fragrances and beauty products. 

Ulta Beauty announced on Thursday a third-quarter revenue jump, thanks to the opening of new stores. 

​Two British beauty groups had big news Thursday with Warpaint London and Brand Architekts announcing a “recommended cash offer to be made by Warpaint for the… share capital of Brand Architekts”.

Beauty brand Sol de Janeiro launched on Wednesday a new five-day installation at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach.

The House of Creed is set to launch its latest fragrance, Fragaria, next month. But before the worldwide release on 14 January, the brand has secured exclusive pre-launch pop-ups at Selfridges in London and Manchester.

​Primark has just opened a new store in its UK domestic market with a debut in Bolton that’s also only the second location to feature its new concept.

The move sets the stage for Interparfums to begin commercial use of the Off-White fragrance brands after an existing license expires on December 31, 2025.

Bang on schedule, Space NK has opened its flagship store at Milton Keynes’ centre:mk as the premium beauty retailer continues to expand in strategic locations across the UK and Ireland.

​Boohoo Group’s Debenhams management is upbeat post-Black Friday saying that it was the “only apparel retailer to trend on Google for an impressive 17 consecutive hours”.

Ethical beauty/wellbeing brand Anatomē has opened an experience-driven Christmas pop-up store within London’s Battersea Power Station mall.

L’Oréal SA heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers has seen her fortune decline the most of almost anyone in the world this year, but she’s still investing in French entrepreneurs. 

​Sephora opens its latest UK store Wednesday with a debut in Kent's Bluewater supermall. It comes after a raft of high-profile openings at the centre and adds a new element to an already powerful beauty offer there.