Fragrances - September - 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

September

2023

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

Table of content

Highlights & Summary

Email Marketing Summary: NEST New York leads the fragrance industry in email marketing, sending the most emails with good email scoring. Dossier - EN and The Fragrance Shop also perform well in email marketing. Brands like Creed Fragrances and Vyrao need to enhance their email marketing efforts.

Email Deliverability Summary: Scentbird excels in email deliverability with a good spam score and optimized email size. A.N. Other also performs well in email deliverability. Le Labo Fragrances needs to improve its spam score.

Ads Performance Summary: Scentbird dominates in advertising, with the highest number of new ads detected and good unique copy performance. Dossier and The Essence Vault also perform well in advertising. Brands like Dialect Fragrances and Haeckels have minimal advertising presence.

In summary, NEST New York leads in email marketing, Scentbird excels in email deliverability, and Scentbird dominates in advertising within the fragrance industry. However, some brands like Creed Fragrances and Vyrao need to enhance their marketing efforts.

Emails sent on average

11.7

Ads published on average

37

Average Spam Score

2.1

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 11.67 55.25%
scentbird
8

❌ Poor

62.38%

✅ Good

A.N. Other
4

❌ Poor

71.25%

✅ Good

Haeckels
5

❌ Poor

49.6%

❌ Poor

NEST New York
44

✅ Good

34.5%

❌ Poor

The Fragrance Shop
22

✅ Good

73.91%

✅ Good

Snif
19

✅ Good

69.79%

✅ Good

Vyrao
4

❌ Poor

35.0%

❌ Poor

The Essence Vault
13

✅ Good

54.46%

⚠️ Fair

Creed Fragrances - EN
6

❌ Poor

46.17%

❌ Poor

Le Labo Fragrances - EN
4

❌ Poor

43.5%

❌ Poor

Scentials
0

❌ Poor

0%

❌ Poor

Dossier - EN
24

✅ Good

65.04%

✅ Good

ALT. Fragrances
9

❌ Poor

62.56%

✅ Good

Dialect Fragrances
2

❌ Poor

62.5%

✅ Good

DedCool
11

⚠️ Fair

56.27%

⚠️ 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 -2.12 2,346.23 kb
scentbird
✅ -2.03

⚠️ Fair

1,139.15 kb

✅ Good

A.N. Other
- 195.17 kb

✅ Good

Haeckels
✅ -4.1

✅ Good

5,420.98 kb

❌ Poor

NEST New York
- 3,856.48 kb

❌ Poor

The Fragrance Shop
✅ -3.05

✅ Good

753.21 kb

✅ Good

Snif
✅ -2.71

✅ Good

2,115.45 kb

⚠️ Fair

Vyrao
✅ -1.0

❌ Poor

5,272.19 kb

❌ Poor

The Essence Vault
✅ -1.23

❌ Poor

2,734.25 kb

❌ Poor

Creed Fragrances - EN
✅ -0.98

❌ Poor

1,648.02 kb

✅ Good

Le Labo Fragrances - EN
🟧 3.7

❌ Poor

868.89 kb

✅ Good

Scentials
- -
Dossier - EN
✅ -2.29

⚠️ Fair

1,402.35 kb

✅ Good

ALT. Fragrances
✅ -2.72

✅ Good

1,330.06 kb

✅ Good

Dialect Fragrances
- 1,089.93 kb

✅ Good

DedCool
✅ -1.7

❌ Poor

2,667.03 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 37.33 13.8
scentbird
150

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

A.N. Other
0

✅ Good

-
Haeckels
0

✅ Good

-
NEST New York
16

✅ Good

10

✅ Good

The Fragrance Shop
30

✅ Good

17

❌ Poor

Snif
57

❌ Poor

35

❌ Poor

Vyrao
24

✅ Good

3

✅ Good

The Essence Vault
58

❌ Poor

31

❌ Poor

Creed Fragrances - EN
13

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

Le Labo Fragrances - EN
38

⚠️ Fair

20

❌ Poor

Scentials
0

✅ Good

-
Dossier - EN
80

❌ Poor

5

✅ Good

ALT. Fragrances
48

❌ Poor

2

✅ Good

Dialect Fragrances
0

✅ Good

-
DedCool
46

❌ Poor

16

❌ Poor

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 180 359 64.11%
scentbird
20

✅ Good

130

✅ Good

86.67%
A.N. Other
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Haeckels
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
NEST New York
4

✅ Good

12

✅ Good

75.0%
The Fragrance Shop
17

✅ Good

4

✅ Good

13.33%
Snif
28

✅ Good

29

✅ Good

50.88%
Vyrao
1

✅ Good

23

✅ Good

95.83%
The Essence Vault
23

✅ Good

35

✅ Good

60.34%
Creed Fragrances - EN
12

✅ Good

1

✅ Good

7.69%
Le Labo Fragrances - EN
17

✅ Good

11

✅ Good

28.95%
Scentials
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
Dossier - EN
37

✅ Good

43

✅ Good

53.75%
ALT. Fragrances
1

✅ Good

46

✅ Good

95.83%
Dialect Fragrances
0

✅ Good

0

✅ Good

-
DedCool
20

✅ Good

25

✅ Good

54.35%

Ads detected over time

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