Dispatch
The end of de minimis: what an overseas indie bottle costs now
The $800 duty-free threshold was suspended for every country of origin in August 2025, and US Customs wrote that suspension into regulation in July.
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Reading about independent perfume: what the season smells like, who is making what, and how one material behaves in a hundred different hands.
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Dispatch
What the EU's expanded allergen list means for small natural houses
Since 31 July, cosmetics placed on the EU market have had to declare roughly 80 fragrance allergens instead of 26, and many of the new entries are…
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Three mornings a week the journal publishes one piece about independent perfume, drawn from the same catalogue as the rest of the site: 21 articles so far, every one of them linking back to the houses and the notes it talks about. It is published by Undernotes; nothing in it is sponsored, and no link is an affiliate link.