The Body Shop
Nature's way to beautiful, ethically sourced.
The Body Shop was founded in Brighton in 1976 by Anita Roddick with a deliberate mission: sell skin and body care products made with ethically sourced natural ingredients at accessible prices. The fragrance line developed as an extension of that philosophy — White Musk, introduced in the 1980s, became one of the house's most enduring products, a synthetic musk formula that anticipated the clean-musk trend by several decades. The house's aesthetic is rooted in botanicals and sourcing transparency: baobab oil from Community Fair Trade partners, shea from Ghana, bergamot from Calabria. The fragrance catalog tends toward naturalistic profiles — florals, warm spices, light woods — without heavy synthetic or niche-market ambitions. After successive ownership changes through L'Oréal, Natura & Co, and a UK administration process in 2024, the brand was restructured and relaunched. Despite the corporate turbulence, The Body Shop remains a reference for accessible ethical beauty with genuine fragrance breadth.
Releases
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
