Master the art of beauty product classification for France's leading prestige beauty retailer. Our AI-powered API ensures your cosmetics, skincare, and fragrance products reach millions of French beauty enthusiasts through precise category placement.
Try Free Demo API DocumentationSephora, founded in France in 1970 and now the world's leading prestige beauty omni-retailer, has developed one of the most sophisticated beauty product taxonomies in the industry. As the birthplace of the Sephora concept, the French market maintains particularly detailed categorization standards that reflect the country's deep heritage in perfumery, cosmetics, and skincare innovation.
The Sephora France categorization system reflects decades of French beauty expertise combined with modern omnichannel retail requirements. Products are organized across major verticals including Maquillage (Makeup), Soin Visage (Skincare), Parfum (Fragrance), Cheveux (Haircare), Corps et Bain (Body and Bath), and exclusive Sephora Collection products. Each category branches into highly specialized subcategories that consider product type, application area, skin concern, ingredient focus, and format.
Understanding Sephora's taxonomy requires appreciation of how French beauty consumers shop. Unlike mass-market retailers, Sephora caters to educated beauty enthusiasts who search by specific concerns like anti-aging, hydration, or brightening. They also browse by ingredient trends such as retinol, hyaluronic acid, or vitamin C. The taxonomy must accommodate both broad discovery browsing and precise ingredient-focused searches, which is why our API considers multiple categorization dimensions simultaneously.
Sephora France also maintains special categorization for Clean Beauty, Vegan products, and sustainability-focused items that have become increasingly important to French consumers. Products must be correctly flagged for these attributes to appear in filtered searches and dedicated landing pages. Our API recognizes ingredient lists and certifications to ensure proper attribute assignment alongside primary categorization.
The French market demands particular attention to perfume categorization, given France's status as the world's perfume capital. Fragrances are categorized not just by gender and concentration (Eau de Parfum, Eau de Toilette, Extrait), but also by olfactory family (floral, oriental, woody, fresh), notes, and house prestige level. This nuanced categorization directly impacts product visibility in a market where fragrance represents a significant portion of beauty spending and gift purchases.
Purpose-built for prestige beauty retail
Deep understanding of skincare ingredients, concerns, and routines. Our AI recognizes active ingredients like retinoids, AHAs, and peptides to place products in the correct treatment categories that French skincare enthusiasts search for.
Sophisticated perfume categorization including olfactory families, concentration levels, and note profiles. Essential for the French market where fragrance shopping demands precise category navigation and discovery.
Automatic recognition of clean, vegan, and cruelty-free products based on ingredient lists and certifications. Ensures proper placement in Sephora's growing sustainability-focused categories.
Detailed makeup categorization covering product type, finish, coverage, and shade range attributes. From foundations to lip products, ensure accurate placement in Sephora's extensive cosmetics taxonomy.
Full support for French product descriptions and beauty terminology. Our API understands French beauty jargon, ingredient names, and marketing claims that drive categorization accuracy.
Recognition of brand positioning within Sephora's prestige hierarchy. Correctly categorize products within brand shops and prestige tiers that affect visibility and merchandising placement.
Interactive visualization of the beauty taxonomy structure
Sephora France organizes products across clearly defined beauty verticals. Maquillage encompasses all color cosmetics from foundations to lipsticks. Soin covers both face and body skincare with extensive subcategories for concerns and formats. Parfum spans the entire fragrance universe from prestige houses to niche brands with detailed olfactory categorization.
Unlike simple hierarchies, Sephora products are classified across multiple dimensions simultaneously. A serum might be categorized by format (serum), concern (anti-aging), ingredient (retinol), and skin type (mature). Our API captures all relevant dimensions for comprehensive searchability and filter compatibility.
Integrate Sephora France categorization into your workflow
import requests
# Sephora France categorization request
def categorize_for_sephora_fr(product_name, description, ingredients=None):
response = requests.post(
'https://api.productcategorization.com/v1/categorize',
headers={
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
json={
'product_name': product_name,
'description': description,
'ingredients': ingredients,
'marketplace': 'sephora_france',
'language': 'fr'
}
)
return response.json()
# Example usage
result = categorize_for_sephora_fr(
'Sérum Vitamine C Éclat Intensif',
'Sérum illuminateur anti-taches avec 15% de vitamine C pure',
'Aqua, Ascorbic Acid, Glycerin, Niacinamide...'
)
print(result['category_path'])
// Sephora France product categorization
async function categorizeForSephoraFR(productName, description, ingredients) {
const response = await fetch(
'https://api.productcategorization.com/v1/categorize',
{
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': `Bearer ${API_KEY}`,
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({
product_name: productName,
description: description,
ingredients: ingredients,
marketplace: 'sephora_france',
language: 'fr'
})
}
);
return response.json();
}
// Example: Categorize fragrance
const result = await categorizeForSephoraFR(
'Chanel N°5 Eau de Parfum',
'Parfum iconique floral-aldéhydé, 100ml'
);
curl -X POST https://api.productcategorization.com/v1/categorize \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"product_name": "Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Lipstick",
"description": "Rouge à lèvres crémeux nude-rose, formule hydratante longue tenue",
"marketplace": "sephora_france",
"language": "fr",
"include_confidence": true,
"include_attributes": true
}'
Optimize your beauty product listings for the French market
Sephora France requires INCI ingredient lists for cosmetic products. Providing full ingredient data enables our API to identify key active ingredients and correctly categorize products within concern-based subcategories like anti-aging, brightening, or hydrating.
For perfumes, include detailed olfactory information: top, heart, and base notes, plus the fragrance family (floral, oriental, woody, fresh). This enables precise placement within Sephora's sophisticated fragrance navigation system.
If your products are clean, vegan, cruelty-free, or have sustainability certifications, include this information. Sephora France prominently features these attributes, and proper categorization ensures visibility in filtered searches.
Makeup products require detailed shade names, undertone information, and finish descriptions. For skincare, specify format (serum, cream, oil) and size. These details drive accurate subcategorization and help shoppers find exact products.
Use proper French beauty terminology in descriptions. Terms like "éclat" (radiance), "anti-rides" (anti-wrinkle), and "teint" (complexion) trigger more accurate categorization than English equivalents in the French Sephora context.
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