Market cut · France

Leading Skincare & Cosmetics Brands in AI Search in France

The Skincare & Cosmetics index re-ranked using only prompts and answers from France.

October 2026 edition

Across the six months through October 2026, Dior Beauty leads AI search visibility in Skincare & Cosmetics in France with a Goodie visibility score of 73.9, ahead of Kérastase (72.9) and CeraVe (55.9). The median score across the 25 ranked brands is 19.2, and a score above 21.5 reaches the top ten. The most-cited source grounding these answers is vogue.fr at 10.1% of all citations, while brand-owned pages account for just 11.6%.

35k prompts · 2.5m AI answers · 11.3m citations · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Industry Benchmarks

October 2026 · Skincare & Cosmetics · France
What good looks like in this category. Read a brand's own score against these before looking at who is winning.
Median visibility score
19.2
Half of the 25 ranked skincare & cosmetics brands score below this. The midpoint, not the average, so a few dominant brands do not distort it.
Index-wide median is 68.2
Score to enter the top 10
21.5
Clearing 21.5 puts a brand in the category top ten. The bar sits 2.4 points above the midpoint, so the leaderboard is closely contested.
Brands named per answer
12.4
A typical answer names twelve brands, so the consideration set is wide and a mention is comparatively easy to earn.
Index-wide average is 8.9
Citation mix
  • UGC 4%
  • Editorial 1%
  • Video 1%
  • Reference 5%
  • Retail 1%
  • Other 88%
Other leads the third-party sources grounding skincare & cosmetics answers. Brand-owned citations sit in the next cell and are not counted here. “Other” covers domains we have not classified into a type yet.
Brand-owned citation share
11.6%
Owned content is weak here: third-party sources decide most of these answers.
Index-wide average is 26.8%
Industry sentiment
60/100
Mean tone of mentions across the ranked brands that carry a measured value. Per-brand sentiment sits on each brand profile.
Prompts sampled
35k
Real buyer phrasing, 4 models
AI answers analysed
2.5m
293k in October · ▲ 20.1% vs September
Citations parsed
11.3m
1m in October · ▲ 16.6% vs September
Brands observed
728
25 ranked here · 703 unranked

Brand Visibility Leaderboard

Brand visibility leaderboard for Skincare & Cosmetics, ranked by six-month average AI visibility score
#BrandVisibility scoreShare of voiceModelsΔ vs last monthSentimentTop cited source
01Dior Beauty
73.9
10.0%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▼ 3.061whowhatwear.com
02Kérastase
72.9
9.8%AI ModeChatGPTCopilotPerplexity▲ 1.652gouiran-beaute.com
03CeraVe
55.9
7.5%AI ModeChatGPTPerplexity—61whowhatwear.com
04Rare Beauty
53.4
7.2%AI ModeChatGPTCopilot▲ 4.774cosmeticsbusiness.com
05La Roche-Posay
40.4
5.4%AI ModePerplexity▼ 2.355whowhatwear.com
06Tom Ford Beauty
39.9
5.4%CopilotPerplexity—41makeupbrands.org
07Redken
38.8
5.2%CopilotPerplexity▼ 2.735kingsresearch.com
08L’Oréal Professionnel
37.0
5.0%AI ModeCopilot▲ 0.857beautycos.fr
09Huda Beauty
34.6
4.7%ChatGPTCopilot▼ 0.872cosmeticsbusiness.com
10Laneige
21.5
2.9%Perplexity—33cosmeticsbusiness.com
25 ranked · visibility is a six-month averageTop source = most frequent source in answers mentioning the brand · Δ compares Oct with Sep

Most-Cited Domains

The answer supply chain
Most-cited domains in AI answers for Skincare & Cosmetics
#DomainCitation shareΔ vs last month
01vogue.fr
10.1%
—
02instagram.com
7.7%
—
03behindthechair.com
7.2%
—
04lefigaro.fr
5.9%
—
05marieclaire.fr
5.9%
—
06aad.org
5.7%
▲ 6.1
07youtube.com
5.7%
▲ 3.8
08comgateway.com
5.5%
—
09onbuy.com
5.2%
—
10gala.fr
4.2%
—
Top 10 of 1k domains observedΔ compares Oct with Sep, in percentage points

Prompts, Topics & Movers

What's driving this month's answers

Sampled prompts

Prompts sampled for Skincare & Cosmetics, with distinct brands named and sources cited
#PromptBrandsSources
01Beauty brands popular on social media142226
02Skincare brands people see real results from119191
03Which cosmetic brands are dermatologist approved?105151
04Haircare brands trusted by salons103144
05Quel skincare, après quelques semaines, se voit vraiment sur la peau ?127
5 of 35k sampledDistinct brands named & sources cited

Biggest movers

Oct vs Sep
Rising
Avènescore 17.9
▲ 5.8
Rare Beautyscore 53.4
▲ 4.7
▲ 2.4
Falling
The Ordinaryscore 19.2
▼ 3.1
Dior Beautyscore 73.9
▼ 3.0
Redkenscore 38.8
▼ 2.7
13 ranked brands scored in both Sep and OctIndustry avg ±2.5/mo

Global Search Demand

Where this industry's questions originate
6,172,950 searches sampled
Tracked markets for Skincare & Cosmetics, by sampled search volume
#CountrySearch volume
01United States2.6M
02United Kingdom978K
03France487K
04Japan470K
05Germany347K
06Australia339K
07Italy282K
08Egypt244K
09Canada216K
10United Arab Emirates122K
11Saudi Arabia36K
12Singapore36K
12 tracked markets
This edition

What Changed This Month

Dior Beauty leads Skincare & Cosmetics this edition with a visibility score of 73.9, ahead of Kérastase at 72.9.

vogue.fr is the most-cited source grounding skincare & cosmetics answers, at roughly 10.1% of citations. Brand-owned pages account for 11.6% — the rest of the answer supply chain runs through third-party sources.

The median visibility score across ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 19.2, and a score above 21.5 reaches the industry top ten.

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Our Methodology

Our Approach to Gathering AI Visibility Data

We process millions of real prompts across AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity, then track which brands, products, and domains show up in the answers. That's the raw data behind every score in the Index.

Real Intent Capture

This data results from processing millions of real user prompts. We use advanced semantic and agentic processing to categorize them and define intent, filtering out noise to focus on high-value queries.

Global Model Interrogation

We run these prompts across the tracked models and across every market we cover, so each market is scored on its own answers rather than on a global average applied everywhere.

Attribution Mapping

We analyze the generated answers to capture the "Kingmaker" domains: the specific sources models cite most often in the answers that name a brand, so you can see which sources the models lean on where you appear and where you do not.

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FAQ · Skincare & Cosmetics

Questions?
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the Answers.

Dior Beauty currently leads AI search visibility in skincare & cosmetics with a Goodie visibility score of 73.9, measured across the tracked AI models.

vogue.fr is the most-cited source in skincare & cosmetics AI answers, grounding roughly 10.1% of citations in this industry.

The median score among ranked skincare & cosmetics brands is 19.2. A score above 21.5 places a brand in the industry top ten.

Each edition samples the same tracked prompt set across the models Goodie follows, then ranks brands by how often they are named in those answers.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.