Atelier Tag

PARIS — To speed up its burgeoning luxury and prestige perfume business, the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. plans to open a fragrance atelier in Paris next yr. “Fragrance has been a winning category for the corporate — for the reason that early days, after we established fragrance with the Estée Lauder brand [in 1953],” Stéphane de la Faverie, executive group president at Lauder, told WWD, adding that over the past few years the category has been increasingly successful for the group. Reported net sales of the corporate’s perfume business, which incorporates the brands Tom Ford, Estée Lauder, Éditions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, Le Labo, Kilian Paris, Clinique, Jo Malone London, Aerin Beauty and Aramis, have grown almost 40 percent since fiscal yr...