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Sephora competitors & alternatives
The 12 closest competitors and alternatives to Sephora among retail companies — ranked by similarity to what Sephora actually does, not by market-cap band.
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About Sephora
Sephora is a global beauty retailer headquartered in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, operating thousands of stores across dozens of markets as part of the LVMH Group.
Top 12 Sephora competitors
Ranked by semantic similarity — how close each company is to Sephora by what it does, using Xcout's live company graph. Click any company for its full profile, or its competitor set.
Retail (Luxury Travel Retail)
DFS Group is a luxury travel-retail company owned by LVMH, operating duty-free and luxury stores in airports, downtown shopping destinations, and other travel hubs. It serves international travelers, offering products such as fashion, beauty, wines and spirits, watches, and jewelry.
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Printemps is a luxury fashion, beauty, dining, and home retailer with its main headquarters located in Paris, France. As of 2026, it operates eighteen stores in France and two international locations.
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Marionnaud is an international perfume and cosmetics retailer operating an e-commerce platform across multiple European countries.
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L'Occitane en Provence is a French beauty company that develops and sells skincare, body care, haircare, fragrances, and related products inspired by ingredients and traditions from Provence. It serves consumers globally through branded retail stores, e-commerce, and other distribution channels.
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Headquartered in London, United Kingdom, The Boots Group is a major international retail parent company operating thousands of retail stores across multiple countries with tens of thousands of employees.
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Feelunique is an online beauty retailer founded in 2005, offering a wide range of cosmetic products and employing hundreds of staff with headquarters in the United Kingdom.
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Christian Dior SE is a European holding company headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris. It controls the Christian Dior luxury brand and holds a controlling interest in LVMH, whose businesses serve consumers of luxury fashion, leather goods, perfumes, cosmetics, watches, jewelry, and related products worldwide.
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Chalhoub Group is a Dubai-headquartered company specializing in luxury goods, beauty, fashion, and lifestyle retail and distribution across the Middle East, including Egypt. It serves international luxury brands and regional consumers through retail stores, e-commerce, and related services.
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Druni is an online beauty retailer that offers a wide range of perfumes, makeup, cosmetics, and parapharmacy products from various brands.
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Anthropologie is an American retailer operating in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany and the UK that sells clothing, jewelry, home furniture, decorations, beauty products, and gifts.
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Lotte Duty Free is a global travel retailer offering a wide range of duty-free products including liquor, fragrance, and cosmetics for travelers to purchase online and collect at airports.
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