🧚♂️ 039 - Midweek Mini-Byte: Tuesday,
A personalized fragrance studio, drinkable 'IV' formula, key fragrance trends, intermittent fasting in question, how Medicube took over, what's up with Gen Alpha & more...
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🗞 NEWS & PRODUCTS
Bloomberg: Gen Alpha can’t be ignored. The largest cohort in history is mostly too young to drive, but its members have big dreams, opinions and cash to spend.
Just for fun:
What neighboring countries in Europe call each other.
🦖 How the reign of the dinosaurs began.
🧴 Skin / Personal Care:
🇦🇺 PONI - a new private label beauty brand for Woolworths Australia [Instagram].
🇮🇹 Fler an Italian body care brand selling razors and shave mousse. It appears other exfoliating and hydrating body products will follow [Instagram].
Vogue Business: How K-Beauty brand Medicube pulled off its global breakout.
👩🦱 Haircare:
Believe - a haircare brand launching at Whole Foods [Instagram].
Hume - a new scalp care brand for all textures [Instagram].
🇰🇷 Olgo - a Korean solid haircare brand [Instagram].
👃 Fragrance:
Fast Company: This AI-powered machine turns photos into smells. The Anemoia Device uses generative models to bring memories to life.
Neue Terra, an SF fragrance company creating scents around nature [Instagram].
Bañomaria - New York based fragrance rooted in Latin American heritage [Instagram].
Des Cieux - a custom scent studio in NYC where you can book a session to create a personalized scent - they also sell a capsule collection online. They definitely play into a scarcity model [Instagram].
Riverbero - an NYC based fragrance company with perfumes formulated by Cara Tortoriello [Instagram].
💊 Supplements:
Pouch - portable IV therapy in a drinkable pouch [Instagram].
biorenewal - The world’s first clinically-backed sleep & waking up system [Instagram].
Frozen Tide - a new hydration supplement [Instagram].
🐕 Pet Care:
👩🔬 Femtech:
Bloomberg Law: RFK Jr. says heavy metals in baby formula study coming in April.
🇦🇺 Good Rituals - a period care company consisting of a cramp relief cream and a cramp relief patch [Instagram].
🛍 Retail: DTC, Brick + Mortar, Social Commerce, and more...
Retail Brew: Amazon’s Go and Fresh closures offer a lesson about differentiation. While Amazon has been bullish about succeeding in grocery, it hasn’t found a unique angle to win over shoppers.
🩺 Digital Health: Wearables, Smart Devices, and more...
The Guardian: Google puts users at risk by downplaying health disclaimers under AI Overviews. Exclusive: Google fails to include safety warnings when users are first presented with AI-generated medical advice.
Fortune: Two neurosurgeons just raised $25 million betting brain cells can (someday) outcompute silicon.
BBC: The business of not aging: Why people are spending $1,300 on longevity treatments.
🗣 Social Media: News about TikTok, Meta, BeReal, Snapchat, X...
♻️ Sustainability: Sustainable DesignRetail Brew: Cosmetics companies are preparing for the end of their products’ lives. How L’Oréal and the Estée Lauder Companies are getting ahead of “extended producer responsibility” laws that target plastic packaging.
💸 M&A, IPOs, SPACs, Bankruptcies, Closings...
🔬RESEARCH
In mice, repeated exercise “rewires” specific hypothalamic neurons, and this brain plasticity is essential for translating training into improved endurance and metabolic health [Neuron].
If you feel guilty about not intermittent fasting you can ditch it. New research has found that intermittent fasting no better than typical weight loss diets [The Guardian; Cochrane Library]
🧐 REPORTS
💡 Enjoy,
-Anne