Presentation

Cosmetic Valley: The world's leading perfumery cosmetics network

Designated a competitiveness cluster by the State in 2005, its role is to support industrials from the perfumery cosmetics sector through:

• Commercial development (networking and export support for SMEs etc.).
  Improving their competitiveness (setting up research and innovation projects).

Some of the leading brands that have put their trust in us :

• Guerlain and Dior (LVMH),
  Hermès,
  Nina Ricci and Paco Rabanne (Puig Group),
  Lolita Lempicka (Pacific Création, Amore Pacific Group),
  Gemey-Maybelline and Yves Saint Laurent Beauté; (L'OREAL),
  Clarins,
  Caudalie,
  Chanel,
  Jean-Paul Gaultier, Issey Miyake,Narciso Rodriguez, Serge Lutens (Shiseido),
  Head & Shoulders, Herbal Essence (Procter & Gamble),
  Signal, Axe, Brut, Dove, Rexona, Sunsilk, Timotei (Unilever),
  RoC, Neutrogena, Le petit Marseillais (Johnson & Johnson),
  Chopard, Calvin Klein, Davidoff, Lancaster (Coty Group) ,
  Veet, Biactol (Reckitt Benckiser),
  Mustela (Laboratoire Expanscience).

A vertical manufacturing sector located in France :

• Cultivating aromatic plants,
  developing principle actives,
  design and formulation,
  manufacturing perfumes and cosmetics,
  test, analysis and control laboratories,
  POS promotion and design,
  conditioning,
  plastic injection, wrapping and packaging,
  distribution...

State laboratories at the heart of cosmetics research :

• CNRS (French national scientific research centre)
  INRA (French national institute for agronomic research)
  BRGM (French earth sciences institute)
  Orléans University,
  Rouen University,
  Francois Rabelais University, Tours
  Versailles/Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines University,
  Havre University,
  Cergy Pontoise University.
  Paris 13 University

A skilled labour market thanks to the availability of specialised training :

• ISIPCA (perfume, cosmetics and food flavouring institute)
  EBI (School of Industrial Biology)
  Sup'Biotech
  ESCEM (Business and Management school)
  CESI (Engineering school)
  ENIVL (Val de Loire national engineering school)
  ESITPA (agricultural engineering school)
  ESAD (Orléans Art and Design college)
  IMT Group,
  Private aesthetics lycée, Touraine,
  Maurice Violette vocational lycée,
  ...

Discover more about Cosmetic Valley ?

• Cosmetic Valley's history
  
• Cosmetic Valley's administration
  
• Cosmetic Valley's missions
  
• Geographical location of Cosmetic Valley
  
• How to set up in Cosmetic Valley
  
• Cosmetic Valley - Key figures