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Petal Theory

An independent perfumer needed a launch that felt as layered as the scents. We art-directed a floating, petal-soft world and a site that smells, almost, like the bottle.

Year2026
TypeLaunch campaign & website
Timeframe10 weeks
Petal Theory — key visual

01Overview

Petal Theory blends small-batch attars with modern French structure. Their first collection of five scents was ready; the brand around it was not.

We led creative direction for the launch shoot, the campaign film and a scroll-driven website built around the notes of each fragrance.

Petal Theory — overview

02Challenge

Fragrance is the hardest thing to sell online: nobody can smell a screen. The founders also wanted to avoid the cliché of gold, black and smoke that dominates the category in India.

Petal Theory — challenge

03Approach

We translated each scent into a colour, a texture and a motion. Rose became a slow pink bloom, vetiver a dense green rain. Those cues drove the set design, the film edit and the site, where each product page opens with the scent's own motion study.

A sampling kit with a QR code linked each vial straight to its page, closing the loop between skin and screen.

04 — Results

What changed

72%Launch week sell-through
29%Sample-to-full-size conversion
2m 41sAverage time on product pages
A launch that gave the category a new palette and gave customers a way to understand a scent before they ever smelled it.

Credits

Creative directionAmara Okafor

MotionYuna Seo

DevelopmentRafael Quispe

ProductionEmre Kaya

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