Well said about greed. They’ll never give anything away. Imagine bezoz actually paying amazon workers fairly. Can’t imagine it happening. We’re closer to having “our first trillionaire” than to ever fixing the cost of living crisis. Humans are a cruel, cruel beast.
The best people to support are indie brands. I buy niche perfume from Matiere Premiere, they're on the same level as these houses but they grow and pick from their own farm.
Thank you for covering this topic, I am a perfume obsessive and own many bottles and had no idea about this until today. I will change my consumption habits now!
Mica mines are also huge in child labor and just goes to show how ridiculous and unethical the fashion and beauty world can be. Obviously not all, but major brands like you mentioned
This whole thing has been going on since forever and with no stop in sight. Today it’s jasmine, yesterday was mica. The trust between consumers and all these companies is beyond broken. Yet, here we are. “Oh yeah so sorry we exploited kids. Inflation you know. Anyways, here’s a new greenwashed campaign we’re launching. See this influencer likes it, and they do stand for animal rights. See, do continue buying from us because we’ll just keep on lying anyways. Even when we’re caught, nah, we’re only sorry this came up, thank goodness we have investors that won’t let *the absolute most fk up shit* hit the fan, cos they’re invested. Journalists- do better. Consumers- open your eyes. You’re not a victim because they’ve gaslit the heck out of you, there are actual victims out there.
Thank you for sharing on this topic Ayo, I grew up in the 90's and the difference on the fragrances is huge. I do not buy or support these big corporations ...Luxury is long dead. The Industry has been highjacked by criminals.
I think that it's the country's responsibility to not allow the exploitation of their citizens. Capitalist companies will never really care about the supply chain workers, if they can get more profits they will. Ethics don't concern these big corporations whatever they say.
This is interesting, Germany is working on a supply chain law which, if I understand it correctly, will make companies responsible and liable for breaches of the law on their supply chain. Which would make the cop-out of saying, well we have middle men, illegal. Corporations are scrambling and pushing back hard against it, we’ll see what happens. It’s really the only way to handle this. The law is the only thing which corporations cannot turn into some greenwashed sustainability PR strategy.
Ayo, it’s worse than that…. They use almost no real raw materials… like .001% just so they can legally say real jasmine is in the bottle. The industry is being captured by chemicals created in-house by the oil houses (which is more profitable and stable). You should REALLY talk to Christophe Laudamiel about this, if you want to do some Quality original reporting. 💖
I agree and I would be willing, the issue is I can’t trust that corporations would raise prices just to let the extra money go into the hands of the workers. There is nothing I can look to historically that would suggest it. Estee Launder & L’Oréal are the type of companies that reformulate their fragrances so they can use cheaper raw materials to make the fragrance while simultaneously increasing fragrances prices = major profits. These companies are in constant search of cheaper labour markets too.
When you pay more, you pay to corporations for their profit and exploitation, not to workers, retail $250 bottle of perfume costs less than $1.50 to produce, as said in the documentary.
Perfume has insane margins as it is. L’Oréal can afford to pay these people more. I’m learning more about global supply chains and I’ve learned that it’s the middlemen who are scamming these people out of livable wages. Understandably, they want to offer the best prices for the raw materials. If their prices get too high, L’Oréal will buy their jasmine elsewhere. However a company a big as L’Oréal can afford to vet their suppliers and pay more, and they certainly can afford to take less profit on perfumes which are already ridiculously overpriced.
@@miaomiaou_ If the consumer doesn't want to pay more for a bottle, why do you think L'oreal would want to earn less for it? In the end, it's just greed on both sides.
@@tzegoh333 Sorry, but this a very very simplistic understanding of how capitalism works. I gonna call it naivity. if i were u i would read a bit more before throwing these "reality" pills.
I struggle to care, if that's the best job the children could get what would they be doing instead. Remove the farms and what would the children do, starve? Or worse.
and they are talking about "their values" and luxurious lifestyle. what a level of hypocrisy
Well said about greed. They’ll never give anything away. Imagine bezoz actually paying amazon workers fairly. Can’t imagine it happening.
We’re closer to having “our first trillionaire” than to ever fixing the cost of living crisis.
Humans are a cruel, cruel beast.
Thank you bringing this to our attention fashion roadman
The best people to support are indie brands. I buy niche perfume from Matiere Premiere, they're on the same level as these houses but they grow and pick from their own farm.
More often than not, with "luxury" brands, there is no there, there....
Thank you for covering this topic, I am a perfume obsessive and own many bottles and had no idea about this until today. I will change my consumption habits now!
Mica mines are also huge in child labor and just goes to show how ridiculous and unethical the fashion and beauty world can be. Obviously not all, but major brands like you mentioned
This whole thing has been going on since forever and with no stop in sight. Today it’s jasmine, yesterday was mica.
The trust between consumers and all these companies is beyond broken.
Yet, here we are. “Oh yeah so sorry we exploited kids. Inflation you know. Anyways, here’s a new greenwashed campaign we’re launching. See this influencer likes it, and they do stand for animal rights. See, do continue buying from us because we’ll just keep on lying anyways. Even when we’re caught, nah, we’re only sorry this came up, thank goodness we have investors that won’t let *the absolute most fk up shit* hit the fan, cos they’re invested.
Journalists- do better. Consumers- open your eyes. You’re not a victim because they’ve gaslit the heck out of you, there are actual victims out there.
Thank you for sharing on this topic Ayo, I grew up in the 90's and the difference on the fragrances is huge.
I do not buy or support these big corporations ...Luxury is long dead. The Industry has been highjacked by criminals.
I think that it's the country's responsibility to not allow the exploitation of their citizens. Capitalist companies will never really care about the supply chain workers, if they can get more profits they will. Ethics don't concern these big corporations whatever they say.
This is interesting, Germany is working on a supply chain law which, if I understand it correctly, will make companies responsible and liable for breaches of the law on their supply chain. Which would make the cop-out of saying, well we have middle men, illegal. Corporations are scrambling and pushing back hard against it, we’ll see what happens. It’s really the only way to handle this. The law is the only thing which corporations cannot turn into some greenwashed sustainability PR strategy.
Ayo, it’s worse than that…. They use almost no real raw materials… like .001% just so they can legally say real jasmine is in the bottle. The industry is being captured by chemicals created in-house by the oil houses (which is more profitable and stable). You should REALLY talk to Christophe Laudamiel about this, if you want to do some Quality original reporting. 💖
The workers would only be paid a few dollars at most, especially Vietnam, it’s ridiculously cheap labor exploitation.
You would be doing a great service to share this documentary & article to your fellow perfume youtuber content makers
The solution is simple: just pay more for each bottle of perfume, although I must say, I don't think that's what the consumers want to do.
I agree and I would be willing, the issue is I can’t trust that corporations would raise prices just to let the extra money go into the hands of the workers. There is nothing I can look to historically that would suggest it. Estee Launder & L’Oréal are the type of companies that reformulate their fragrances so they can use cheaper raw materials to make the fragrance while simultaneously increasing fragrances prices = major profits. These companies are in constant search of cheaper labour markets too.
When you pay more, you pay to corporations for their profit and exploitation, not to workers, retail $250 bottle of perfume costs less than $1.50 to produce, as said in the documentary.
Perfume has insane margins as it is. L’Oréal can afford to pay these people more. I’m learning more about global supply chains and I’ve learned that it’s the middlemen who are scamming these people out of livable wages. Understandably, they want to offer the best prices for the raw materials. If their prices get too high, L’Oréal will buy their jasmine elsewhere. However a company a big as L’Oréal can afford to vet their suppliers and pay more, and they certainly can afford to take less profit on perfumes which are already ridiculously overpriced.
@@miaomiaou_ If the consumer doesn't want to pay more for a bottle, why do you think L'oreal would want to earn less for it? In the end, it's just greed on both sides.
@@tzegoh333 Sorry, but this a very very simplistic understanding of how capitalism works. I gonna call it naivity. if i were u i would read a bit more before throwing these "reality" pills.
SF is always San Francisco, friend. We just say "south florida" entirely.
Aesop use jasmine in their perfumes.
I cannot thank you for sharing…. I actually use this perfume!!!!
Same. Ikat Jasmine by Aerin has been my favorite perfume for years. This is terrible!
Boycott Moral values and great ethics smell better than the perfumes at these brands.
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There is a time for everyone rich and poor ⏳️🌏🌎🌍⌛️🕎 ⚖️
omg noo u.u
I struggle to care, if that's the best job the children could get what would they be doing instead. Remove the farms and what would the children do, starve? Or worse.