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Candles to cleaning: Diptyque finds beauty “where no beauty is expected”

Inside Retail

In a crowded market like the home fragrance category, where everyone from fast fashion and beauty brands to discount department stores and pharmacists are selling candles, it’s near impossible to create and retain cut-through, much less develop an iconic brand synonymous with luxury and quality like 60-year-old Parisian brand Diptyque.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 275 – DTC with Mickey Drexler

Retail Geek

Because again they weren’t dealing with competitive sales my department store experience was the opposite, if you’re in buying wholesale someone else will put the goods on sale and of course today you know 30 years later plus it’s the standard. [7:35] 7:35] And so I decided when I got to Ann Taylor. [7:39]