Perfume and eau de toilette: recalls and official safety alerts

2,104 official alerts and recalls concern perfume and eau de toilette: 2,103 from EU Safety Gate and 1 from US CPSC. The first dates from 10 February 2020, the latest from 29 September 2026. In the last four complete quarters there were 275, down from 870 in the four quarters before. The hazards named most often are chemical (100%) and other health risk (0%). Read from the official risk descriptions, the most common reasons are ingredient not allowed in cosmetics (100%), allergen not declared on the label (1%) and restricted chemical above the legal limit (1%). 26% were for products made in Italy, 13% were for products made in France and 9% were for products made in Spain. 2% of the EU alerts were marked as sold online, and 1% name an online marketplace, most often Amazon, eBay and eMAG. The most common outcome was sales ban (82% of EU alerts); 98% included a measure ordered by an authority. Chemicals named in the official risk descriptions include lilial (BMHCA), lead and methanol.