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FREE TOOL · DRAFT LABEL GENERATOR

Perfume or candle?
Two completely different labels.

A perfume is a cosmetic — it needs a PAO symbol, an INCI list and a Responsible Person. A candle or reed diffuser is a CLP mixture — it needs hazard pictograms, a signal word and precautionary statements. Tell us what you are making and this drafts the right one for Great Britain, the EU, or both. It also screens your ingredient list for restricted substances and for the allergens you have to declare.

WHAT CHANGED

Fragrance allergens: the EU list grew from 26 to 82 on 31 July 2026 under Regulation (EU) 2023/1545, with sell-through of existing stock to 31 July 2028. Great Britain has not adopted the expansion and still runs the 26. CLP: revised by Regulation (EU) 2024/2865, most provisions applied from 1 July 2026, poison centre notification from 1 January 2027, and label format rules including a 1.4 mm minimum font height deferred to 1 January 2028. EU labels must now carry a physical EU address for the party responsible for CLP compliance.

This is a sample for illustration, not artwork for print. It shows what your label needs to say and roughly how it hangs together — it is not a die-line, the proportions are not to scale, and the pictograms are shown at indicative size. Hazard classification cannot be invented: it comes from the safety data sheet your fragrance supplier issues, and this tool asks you to enter it rather than guessing. The ingredient screening covers a working list of prohibited and restricted substances and the declarable fragrance allergens; it is not a complete Annex check and a clear result does not mean a compliant formula. Placing a product on the market carries obligations beyond the label — a CPSR for cosmetics, an SDS and poison centre notification for CLP mixtures, and a Responsible Person or EU-established supplier in every market you sell into.

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