Givenchy currently sells two facial skincare ranges: Le Soin Noir, launched in 2008 and completely overhauled in 2021, and Sculptural, an anti-ageing line that arrived in January 2025. Since February 2026, the Maison's makeup has also been borrowing from the vocabulary of skincare, right up to the lipsticks released on 4 September 2026. For a house that the public identifies first with L'Interdit and with Prisme Libre powder, Givenchy facial skincare is becoming a business in its own right.
The two Givenchy facial skincare ranges
Le Soin Noir has occupied the top of the pyramid since 2008. The range is built around Algue Vitale, a micro-algae from which the brand's laboratories extract a signature active ingredient, Sève Noire, made up of four micro-nutrients. In 2021, Givenchy completely redesigned the line for greater efficacy, naturalness and sensoriality. Serum, cream, lotion, perfecting oil, night balm, eye cream: the ritual comes in a complete range.
Sculptural targets something else: facial volumes and contours. Previewed on 13 January 2025 on the brand's website, then distributed from 27 January in authorised points of sale, the line brings together a serum, a cream, a light cream for combination skin and warm climates, and an eye contour product. Its Collagiv-Act technology relies on Ciste Phoenix, a plant chosen for its regenerative capacity, and acts both on collagen production and on collagen protection. The formulas contain at least 93% ingredients of natural origin, in refillable packaging in the carmine red inherited from Hubert de Givenchy.
Both ranges are sold in selective perfumeries, in department stores and on the brand's website.
Makeup that borrows from skincare
The shift goes beyond creams. In February 2026, Givenchy launched a highlighter enriched with micro-hyaluronic acid and squalane, presented as offering 24-hour hydration: a makeup product formulated like a skincare product, in what the industry calls skinification. The Prisme Libre foundation itself now comes in a serum version.
On 4 September 2026, the Maison released two lipsticks, Le Rouge Satin Silk and Le Rouge Hydra Balm, designed according to an approach that Givenchy Beauty calls dermacare: hyaluronic acid in two molecule sizes, peptides, ceramides to support the skin barrier. The reasoning is that of a skincare laboratory applied to colour.
What the group highlights: perfume
In its July 2026 letter to shareholders, LVMH sums up Parfums Givenchy's business in one sentence: the Maison « met l'accent sur le développement de L'Interdit » (focuses on developing L'Interdit). Skincare does not appear there. The group's Parfums et Cosmétiques division posted sales of 3,914 million euros in the first half of 2026, flat on an organic basis, with an operating margin of 10.6%, slightly up.
Management changed hands this summer. Yann Musquin has led the group's perfume brands, Parfums Givenchy and Kenzo Parfums, since 3 August 2026, replacing Romain Spitzer, who left for Bottega Veneta. Having previously worked at L'Oréal, Parfums Christian Dior and the beauty division of Louis Vuitton, he had been Chief Brand Officer of Givenchy Parfums et Beauté since December 2024. His roadmap, as formulated by LVMH: strengthen Givenchy's and Kenzo's perfume activities, and grow the group's portfolio through new opportunities in perfumery and beauty.
A selective skincare market that is declining in France
The context is not favourable. According to Circana, cited by Premium Beauty News in May 2025, French selective perfumery fell by 2% in value in the first quarter of 2025, after an 8% rise a year earlier. Skincare is the hardest-hit category, down 5% in value and down 9% in volume, ahead of makeup (down 4%) and perfume (down 1%). Only a few segments are growing: makeup removers, clarifying toners and untinted lip care.
Consolidating a third business line in a shrinking category is therefore a positioning choice: proprietary technologies, Sève Noire and Collagiv-Act, refillable packaging, makeup redesigned as skincare, rather than a race for volume. The 2025 and 2026 launch calendar shows that the bet has been made. It does not yet say whether it has been won.
What about recruitment?
Skincare of this calibre is rarely sold on its own. It is demonstrated in store and in selective perfumeries, by sales advisors trained in the rituals of each line, and it mobilises training, marketing and product development teams at headquarters. On Catwalks' Givenchy page, the Maison does not currently display any online job listings; its recruitment also goes through the firm's confidential mandates, and the verification of prerequisites includes, for skincare roles, the regulatory qualification. The beauty professions at LVMH, for their part, remain among the most sought-after in the industry.
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