All the best launches across beauty and lifestyle to shop this month
Chanel
Chanel’s new Sublimage Le Baume is an intensive recovery balm created to support the skin’s natural recovery process and provide intense nourishment. At its core lies Vanilla Planifolia, enriched with ceramides and vitamin B5 to support cellular regeneration, help restore skin vitality, strengthen the skin barrier, soothe visible signs of sensitivity and reinforce the skin’s resilience. Its dense, velvety texture transforms upon application, enveloping the skin in lasting comfort.
Valmont
Swiss luxury skincare house Valmont unveils its newest Hydra³ collection, designed to help strengthen the skin’s barrier to compensate for moisture loss and improve long-term water retention. Built on the brand’s iconic Triple DNA technology – capable of retaining up to 10,000 times its weight in water – Hydra³ sharpens focus on the skin’s three protective barriers, optimising moisture circulation, reducing transepidermal water loss and promoting long-term vitality through hygroscopic actives and fermented gentian extract.
The collection comprises five treatments: Hydra³ Mist, an ultra-fine mist for face and body with Swiss apricot extract and witch hazel water; Hydra³ Booster, a fast-absorbing gel-serum with dual-weight hyaluronic complex and Pore Refiner technology; Hydra³ Charging Cream, a daily moisturiser with Triple DNA to reinforce lipid integrity; Hydra³ Contour, an eye treatment to smooth dehydration lines; and Hydra³ Mask, a 20-minute replenishing cream mask with rosa canina and Hyalurofix.
Hourglass
Hourglass welcomes Grammy Award-winning musician Olivia Dean as its new global brand partner with a new complexion campaign, “Any Time, Any Place, Any Wear”, featuring Dean embarking on a train route through Europe, highlighting how beauty travels with consumers.
Also part of the collaboration is a curated series of exclusive product capsules, beginning with The Olivia Dean Edit, a considered selection built around the formulas she loves on and off stage. This includes the Veil Hydrating Skin Tint, Vanish Airbrush Concealer and the new Unreal Liquid Highlighter, each chosen for their lightweight feel, skincare benefits and natural-looking glow.
Diptyque
Every year Diptyque takes on the challenge of distilling the essence of major global cities into a single olfactory experience with its annual limited edition City Candle Collections. This year, the twelve cities being honoured are Paris, London, Pekin, Hong Kong, Beverly Hills, Seoul, New York, Milan, Berlin, Shanghai, Tokyo and Miami, available worldwide for 11 days from March 19 to 29, and all year round in their respective cities.
La Prairie
La Prairie expands its White Caviar Collection with the new White Caviar Eye Serum. Featuring a light, sensorial oil-in-water formula, this eye serum harnesses the power of Exclusive Cellular Complex™, Niacinamide, Caviar Micro-Nutrients and brightening molecules to visibly brighten the under-eye area and stimulate a more youthful eye area skin structure.
Paula’s Choice
Paula’s Choice, the US-based leader in clinical skincare, expands into Hong Kong, launching exclusively at Sephora. Anchoring this expansion is its most significant scientific achievement to date: the CellularYouth™ Age-Disrupting Longevity Serum. Developed through five years of advanced epigenetic research, this breakthrough serum is Paula’s Choice’s most clinically studied formulation, powered by a trio of potent, high-tech ingredients to visibly reverse the look of skin age – restoring firmness, smoothness and radiance now, while helping future-proof skin’s youthful resilience, tone and texture.
Le Labo
The new addition to Le Labo’s Classic Collection, Violette 30 reimagines the note through contrast. Powdery and floral fragrance, a rare white violet sits at the heart, opening into verdant green florals and calming white tea before settling into warm cedarwood and smoky guaiacwood that lends a resinous, woody character. The result is quietly sensual and endlessly wearable – familiar, yet just mysterious enough to keep you leaning in.
Aesop
Resolute Facial Concentrate marks an evolution in Aesop skin care, being the brand’s first formulation with a retinoid. The culmination of a decade of research and development, this lightweight oil-serum blends HPR, a gentle retinoid of remarkable efficacy, with squalane and vitamins to leave skin feeling smooth, nourished and luminous.
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