California Prop 65

California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 — better known as Proposition 65 — requires businesses to warn California residents before they buy a product that could expose them to any of roughly nine hundred listed chemicals. The list is long and includes substances that turn up routinely in everyday consumer products, including fragrances.

Perfume is a complex blend — sometimes hundreds of individual aroma molecules and the solvents that carry them. A handful of those ingredients (denatured-alcohol byproducts, certain phthalates, certain aldehydes, particular natural extracts) appear on California's list. Because we can't practically verify, bottle by bottle, which specific listed chemicals each producer's formula contains, we provide a single conservative warning for all fragrance products sold to California addresses.

A Prop 65 warning is not a statement that a product is unsafe or out of compliance with any federal safety standard. It means California has decided customers should be told that a listed chemical is or may be present. The producers we work with sell their fragrances throughout the United States and Europe under their respective cosmetic-safety regimes.

The state's official site, maintained by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, is P65Warnings.ca.gov — it explains the program, the chemical list, and what warnings do and don't mean.

For questions specific to one of our products, email [email protected] and we'll do our best to point you at the producer's published ingredient information.

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