Fragrances - August - 2023


The result? A comparative analysis that highlight the best performers of any ecommerce DTC niche, for any given month.

This benchmark analyze the behaviour of 15 Direct-To-Consumers (DTC) brands in the Supplement industry. Our goal is to compare their marketing velocity (how active they are in their digital marketing strategy) and how to they perform vs. each other.

Fragrances

This report is free to read and takes into consideration between 15 and 20 brands we compare month after month in the

Fragrances

industry, for the month of

August

2023

. We review data over their email marketing and advertising practices. Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exclusive reports.

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

In August, NEST New York led again in emails, sending 48. Scentbird closely followed with 30 promotional emails.

In terms of advertising, ALT. Fragrances took the lead, creating 149 new ads, and Dossier followed with 121 new ads. The Fragrance Shop used the most ad copies this month, totaling 51.

Concerning advertising strategy this month, both ALT. Fragrances and Dossier favored videos over images. ALT. Fragrances used 138 videos and only 8 images, while Dossier employed 81 videos and 37 images.

Emails sent on average

12.7

Ads published on average

52

Average Spam Score

1.7

Email Marketing Benchmark Breakdown

Email Marketing Performances

In this table, we benchmark how many emails brands have send and their average email scores, which we calculate using over 50 datapoints that measure how much best practices are ensured (spam score, email authenticiation & certificates, email size, subject line lenght, word & links count etc.)

Brand # Emails Sent Performance Email Scoring Performance
Average 12.67 52.7%
scentbird
30

✅ Good

60.43%

✅ Good

A.N. Other
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Haeckels
6

❌ Poor

39.67%

❌ Poor

NEST New York
48

✅ Good

34.13%

❌ Poor

The Fragrance Shop
12

⚠️ Fair

70.42%

✅ Good

Snif
20

✅ Good

67.7%

✅ Good

Vyrao
4

❌ Poor

41.25%

❌ Poor

The Essence Vault
12

⚠️ Fair

52.67%

⚠️ Fair

Creed Fragrances - EN
9

❌ Poor

58.56%

✅ Good

Le Labo Fragrances - EN
6

❌ Poor

43.0%

❌ Poor

Scentials
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Dossier - EN
23

✅ Good

57.96%

⚠️ Fair

ALT. Fragrances
7

❌ Poor

72.0%

✅ Good

Dialect Fragrances
1

❌ Poor

82.0%

✅ Good

DedCool
12

⚠️ Fair

52.0%

⚠️ Fair

Email Deliverability Performances

In this table, we benchmark how much the emails are optimized for delivery ie. if they're likely to pass spam filters and not land in the Promotions tab.

Brand Average Spam Score Performance Email Size Performance
Average -1.72 2,880.89 kb
scentbird
✅ -2.23

✅ Good

1,402.67 kb

✅ Good

A.N. Other
- -
Haeckels
✅ -2.38

✅ Good

3,979.14 kb

❌ Poor

NEST New York
✅ -1.98

✅ Good

3,789.23 kb

❌ Poor

The Fragrance Shop
✅ -3.01

✅ Good

470.15 kb

✅ Good

Snif
✅ -1.98

✅ Good

2,469.01 kb

✅ Good

Vyrao
✅ -1.58

⚠️ Fair

13,691.31 kb

❌ Poor

The Essence Vault
✅ -1.24

❌ Poor

4,891.11 kb

❌ Poor

Creed Fragrances - EN
✅ -2.44

✅ Good

2,239.46 kb

✅ Good

Le Labo Fragrances - EN
🟧 3.93

❌ Poor

701.42 kb

✅ Good

Scentials
- -
Dossier - EN
✅ -1.4

❌ Poor

1,985.15 kb

✅ Good

ALT. Fragrances
✅ -2.24

✅ Good

651.32 kb

✅ Good

Dialect Fragrances
- 18.81 kb

✅ Good

DedCool
✅ -1.35

❌ Poor

4,704.17 kb

❌ Poor

Email sent over time

Advertising performances and activity

Ad Velocity

In this table, we benchmark the brands velocity and performances - how much ads they've been publishing, and how many different copy has been used.

Brand New Ads Detected Performance Unique Copy Performance
Average 52.27 18.13
scentbird
118

❌ Poor

1

✅ Good

A.N. Other
0

✅ Good

-
Haeckels
0

✅ Good

-
NEST New York
11

✅ Good

9

✅ Good

The Fragrance Shop
98

❌ Poor

39

❌ Poor

Snif
38

✅ Good

31

❌ Poor

Vyrao
52

⚠️ Fair

1

✅ Good

The Essence Vault
53

⚠️ Fair

30

❌ Poor

Creed Fragrances - EN
9

✅ Good

6

✅ Good

Le Labo Fragrances - EN
78

❌ Poor

22

❌ Poor

Scentials
14

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Dossier - EN
121

❌ Poor

17

⚠️ Fair

ALT. Fragrances
149

❌ Poor

3

✅ Good

Dialect Fragrances
0

✅ Good

-
DedCool
43

✅ Good

14

✅ Good

Ad Diversity (Images vs. Videos ratio)

In this table, we benchmark the brands diversity of assets when it comes to Social Ads - especially the images vs. videos ratio.

Brand New Images Performance New Videos Performance Video Proportion
Average 296 449 57.27%
scentbird
26

✅ Good

92

✅ Good

77.97%
A.N. Other
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Haeckels
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
NEST New York
3

✅ Good

8

✅ Good

72.73%
The Fragrance Shop
80

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

10.2%
Snif
15

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

60.53%
Vyrao
29

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

44.23%
The Essence Vault
23

✅ Good

30

✅ Good

56.6%
Creed Fragrances - EN
8

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

11.11%
Le Labo Fragrances - EN
31

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

32.05%
Scentials
12

✅ Good

2

✅ Good

14.29%
Dossier - EN
37

✅ Good

81

✅ Good

66.94%
ALT. Fragrances
8

✅ Good

138

✅ Good

92.62%
Dialect Fragrances
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
DedCool
24

✅ Good

16

✅ Good

37.21%

Ads detected over time

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Some of the assets (emails, ads) used in this benchmark to measure performance

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