From Chanel’s reimagined Bleu de Chanel fragrance to Suqqu’s latest autumn collection, here are our recent favourite beauty and fragrance launches

Nars

Make love blossom – and last – with Nars’ limited-edition Explicit Lipstick, featuring a pastel pink packaging adorned with a floral motif as a symbol of eternal romance. Available in six rose and brown shades (three new and three bestsellers), the lipstick delivers a dimensional satin finish with vibrant, pure-colour payoff. The precision-tip bullet creates sculpted sophistication while rosehip seed oil and hyaluronic acid keeps lips smooth and hydrated.

Moving to the face, the Nars’ introduces six new shades to their iconic Blush, now reimagined in an upgraded formula that lasts for up to 16 hours, featuring true-colour payoff with a comfortable, weightless feel. There’s the matte pale peach Devilish, matte ivory Slow Burn, and sparkling lilac Please Me, as well as favourites including Madly, a satin neutral brown; Cherish, a soft peach apricot; and Tempted, a shimmering peach.

Chanel Beauty

When Bleu de Chanel first hit counters in 2010, it caused a stir. Now, 15 years later, the in-house men’s bestseller has been updated as L’Exclusif, with daring new notes and a reimagined bottle fashioned in a perfect square silhouette. Olivier Polge, Chanel’s in-house perfumer, combined notes of leather and cistus labdanum, as well as an overdose of sandalwood, sustainably sourced through Chanel’s integrated supply chain on the island of Maré. The result is a stronger extract, as woody as ever, but enriched with a more assertive leathery amber identity without betraying the spirit of 2010’s Bleu.

Suqqu

For its Autumn Color Collection 2025 – Irokasane, Suqqu takes inspiration from the ever-changing scenery of Japan’s four seasons. At the heart of the collection is the renewed single eyeshadow Mono Look Eyes. Featuring delicate, refined shades in four distinct finishes – Prism Touch, Luster, Satin and Matte – each shade blends and melts seamlessly into the skin with Suqqu’s signature powder texture.

Next, the Blurring Color Blush is a duo-tone blush that layers colours to create depth and dimension. Each palette features a soft, healthy blush and a milky, translucent highlight to create an elegant sheen that gently flushes the cheeks, delivering a naturally blurred, radiant finish.

To bring the look together, the Moisture Glaze Lipstick comes in two shades: 13 Hanaurei, a muted, dusty purple infused with smoky and milky tones for a chic, modern look; and the limited-edition 109 Yumeyomi, a bright neutral pink with silver and green pearls that brings a nuanced glow and graceful depth to the lips. Its balm-like texture is luxuriously rich and glides effortlessly onto your lips, leaving a rich, glossy film without feeling sticky.

Rounding off the collection, the Treatment Wrapping Lip is a barely-there pink that enhances the natural tone and glow of your lips, while delivering deep moisture care.

Byredo

Alto Astral marks a new olfactory chapter from Byredo – a radiant tribute to the spirited emotional landscape of Brazil. Named after the Brazilian Portuguese expression for an elevated state of mind, Alto Astral captures the essence of optimism, movement, and cultural expression through scent. Created by perfumer Jérome Epinette, the musky scent is bright and addictive, opening with creamy coconut, before jasmine petals and musk add an extra layer of warmth. Finally, the base notes sandalwood, cashmere wood and salted amber come together to create a fresh yet well-rounded fragrance.

Huda Beauty

Huda Beauty introduces a new lip duo. Available in eight shades, the no-bleed Lip Contour Stain is highly pigmented and ultra-comfortable for up to 12 hours wear, revealing a natural matte finish that won’t budge. Featuring an innovative dual-sided felt tip design, it can be used both as a lip stain and a lip liner that’s not only smudge and transfer-proof but offers effortless application to line and define with precision. Plus, it’s infused with argan oil to leave your lips feeling moisturised and hydrated all day long.

Alongside the stain, the brand has also introduced the Faux Filler Jelly Oil, a tinted lip oil that can be worn alone or layered over the Lip Contour Stain for a “jelly stained lip” look. The product is packed with shea butter, peptides, passionfruit oil and vegan squalane, ingredients selected to nourish, smooth and hydrate the lips. The non-sticky oil is available in three sheer, tinted shades – Pink Lady, Juicy Peach and Juicy Goji – each with its own fruity scent.

Le Labo

Every year in September, Le Labo brings its City Exclusive fragrances – all of which don’t leave the confines of their respective homes eleven months out of the year – to select Le Labo stores, worldwide. This year, Kyoto joins the journey with Osmanthus 19, a scent that mirrors the city’s quiet elegance.

The scent opens with notes of incense and aromatic lavender, drying down to a creamy, uplifting heart of its titular flower, followed by a deep woody tones. The resulting fragrance captures the ephemeral magic of the osmanthus flower, a rare bloom only emerges as the rest of nature quiets into winter weathers.

Full-size fragrances will be available from 1 to 30 September on Le Labo’s website, in labs, and select retailers.

Tom Ford Beauty

Born from the brand’s philosophy designed to sculpt, enhance and perfect one’s unique face architecture, the new Tom Ford Architecture Radiance Hydrating Foundation SPF 50/PA++++ is designed to sculpt and illuminate the skin with couture precision. Tailored for Asian skin tones, the medium-to-full coverage formula offers 24-hour hydration, long-lasting wear, and a seamless radiant finish that moves with the light. The serum-like texture builds and blends effortlessly, powered by ingredients like hyaluronic acid, niacinamide, and botanical oils including the rare Queen of the Night flower, passionfruit oil, caffeine, and extracts of rose and jasmine.

With Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, just around the corner, Tom Ford Beauty also presents the limited-edition Black Orchid makeup collection. Drawing from the design of the fragrance’s bottle, the Black Orchid Lip Color blends nourishing ingredients like camellia oil, meadowfoam seed oil and pomegranate seed oil for 12-hour lasting comfort and moisture. Available in three brand new shades – a mysterious velvety purple, sophisticated warm rose nude, and romantic soft rose – this lipstick sculpts and enhances the lips with its intense saturation and refined satin finish.

Rounding out the collection is the Black Orchid Creme Brush. The sumptuous formula glides onto cheeks with the velvety comfort of a cream and blends out for a diffused, powder-soft look. Lightweight and buildable, this emollient formula imparts a flush of dramatic yet delicate raspberry-pink colour and subtle glow.

Bvlgari

Bvlgari introduces a captivating addition to its Allegra collection: Allegra Insieme. Created by master perfumer Jacques Cavallier and his daughter Camille, the new eau de parfum is a heartfelt tribute to the enduring bond of friendship, blending the delicate scent of peonies with the warmth of musk and woody notes. Infused with Italian mandarin and a hint of patchouli, this fragrance is irresistibly modern and offers your collection a daring signature.

Hermès Beauty

For the autumn-winter 2025 season, Gregoris Pyrpylis, creative Director of Hermès Beauty, unveils a new limited-edition collection. Inspired by the two most radical, pure and essential shapes in drawing and design – the circle and the square – the collection comprises an eyeshadow palette, three lipsticks and three nail enamels.

For the eyes, the round Ombres d’Hermès palette houses a quartet of new shades in textures and finishes reminiscent of those in the permanent collection, including a deep, iridescent purple, bluish-grey, shimmering gold and deep blue-green.

Three shades of Rouge Hermès lipsticks showcase different levels of rosy hues: 24 Rose Épure is a soft matte pink that colours the lips with a subtle hint of rosewood; 55 Rose Mauve features a satin finish that reveals an smoky pink tinged with a veil of mauve; and 69 Rose Primaire is a bold, bright magenta with a light matte finish. To echo the eyeshadow palette, the circles and squares are arranged in an alternating pattern that sweeps around the cylindrical tube like a multicoloured illusion.

Completing this bold, free-spirited collection are three nail enamels from the Les Mains Hermès permanent collection – 89 Violet Byzantin, 79 Jaune Impérial, and 91 Vert Écossais.

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