Retrospect

Retrospect is Merit’s first fragrance, an extrait launched on October 22, 2024 and composed in Paris by Fanny Bal. Inspired by the fragrances of the past, reread with a modern sensibility, it moves from bergamot, pear and aldehydes to a heart of jasmine, rose and iris, over a base of vanilla, musk and moss.

Brand: Merit Beauty
Launch year: 2024
Perfumer: Fanny Bal
Gender: Women
Olfactory family: Musky
Concentration: Extrait de Parfum

Published October 28, 2026

Where to buy

Merit launched Retrospect, its first fragrance, on October 22, 2024, on its website and at Sephora in North America. The brand developed it over more than two years, through more than two hundred trials, with the perfumer Fanny Bal, in Paris.

Merit says it drew inspiration from the fragrances of the past, which it rereads with a modern sensibility. Retrospect is an extrait de parfum, which the brand says is concentrated at nearly thirty percent fragrance oil; it comes in 9.5 ml and 30 ml.

What is still missing

Sephora files Retrospect under women’s fragrances in Europe, but among genderless fragrances in the United States. Retrospect has no known campaign to date.