MOSCOW, March 17 Traditionally, France, Lithuania and Germany were among the three main exporters of perfumes to Russia, but in 2022 the latter was replaced in the top 3 by Spain, and in 2023 — Poland, calculated based on open data.
The total volume of perfume supplies to Russia at the end of 2023 amounted to more than $516 million in value terms. The main supplier was Lithuania, which exported almost a third of perfume to the Russian Federation — worth more than $165 million. The top three suppliers also included Poland with an export volume of $64 million and France with almost $58 million. These countries accounted for more than half (55.6%) of perfume supplies to Russia. At the same time, the three main exporters of perfumes to Russia until 2022 were France, Lithuania and Germany, periodically changing places in the top three.
Next come Italy and Spain, from which Russia last year bought perfumes worth $52 and $39 million, respectively. Other countries in the top ten included Germany ($25.5 million), Czech Republic ($23 million), Latvia ($19.6 million), Turkey ($17 million) and Kazakhstan ($15.2 million). In total, the top ten suppliers of perfumes in the Russian Federation accounted for 93% of supplies, or $480 million.
It is noteworthy that since pre-sanction 2021, among the top ten leaders, supplies to Russia have increased most strongly in Turkey and Kazakhstan — almost 3 times in two years, as well as in Italy, Lithuania and the Czech Republic — approximately 2 times. But the most noticeable drop in supplies among the top 10 occurred in Germany — by 5 times, France — by 26%, Spain — by 20% and Latvia — 13%.
Among other suppliers of perfumes to Russia over two years, the strongest growth was shown by exports from Slovenia — 394 times, up to 13 million dollars, South Korea — 7 times, up to 1.7 million dollars, Thailand — 72 times, up to 6.8 million, Uzbekistan — 19 times, up to 117 thousand dollars, Armenia — 11 times, up to 1.1 million dollars, and China — 4 times, up to 2.7 million dollars. Also, supplies from Malaysia increased from almost zero values - up to 913 thousand dollars, Austria — up to 36.6 thousand dollars and Morocco — up to 18 thousand dollars.
On the contrary, Belgium reduced its supplies of perfumes to the Russian Federation the most — by 954 times, to 52 thousand dollars, Azerbaijan — by 40 times, to 1.7 thousand dollars, the USA — by 28 times, to 488 thousand, Slovakia — 22 times, up to 31 thousand dollars, Great Britain — 11 times, up to 747 thousand, Bahrain — 8 times, up to 4.5 thousand, Switzerland — 6 times, up to 308 thousand, and Finland — 4 times, up to 96 one thousand dollars. And the Netherlands practically stopped supplies altogether — in two years they collapsed 12.5 thousand times — from almost 2 million dollars to 155 thousand dollars.