Le Labo! My understanding is that they operated independently for several years, until the company was bought by Estee Lauder sometime around 2014. Sooo, I'm not sure how their formulas are being created at this point. I ADORE many of their fragrances tho, particularly their Rose 31, and the Ylang 49.
Indeed Estee Lauder did acquire Le Labo in 2014. They have however been following the same playbook of getting their formulation done by one of the big 5. Santal 33 was created by perfumer Frank Voelkl who works for Firmenich which is the BIGGEST company of all. So imo they have never really been "independent" by my definition of it. All their formulas were, since the beginning, created by one of the BIG 5.
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Le Labo! My understanding is that they operated independently for several years, until the company was bought by Estee Lauder sometime around 2014. Sooo, I'm not sure how their formulas are being created at this point. I ADORE many of their fragrances tho, particularly their Rose 31, and the Ylang 49.
Indeed Estee Lauder did acquire Le Labo in 2014. They have however been following the same playbook of getting their formulation done by one of the big 5. Santal 33 was created by perfumer Frank Voelkl who works for Firmenich which is the BIGGEST company of all. So imo they have never really been "independent" by my definition of it. All their formulas were, since the beginning, created by one of the BIG 5.
Ohhh, interesting, thank you for that info.
Very interesting