Packaging Your Perfume
In its simplest form, "packaging" your perfume involves no more than getting it into a bottle, screwing on a cap or spray pump, and adding a stickers.
Here, the only packaging decisions are the selection of the bottle and closure and the design of the label. All other possibilities in packaging are simply extensions of these basics.
To dress up your bottle, you develop a box for it. Since bottles come in hundreds of stock sizes and can also be of a custom design, stock boxes for perfume bottles don't exist. To produce your box you'll go to a box manufacturer to develop and manufacturer a box to custom fit your bottle.
This involves creating a template, making a die from the template (to cut the sheets of paperboard), printing the paperboard, and then die cutting out the individual boxes.
The box manufacturer or printer will give you a template for your artwork which will be made up from the dimensions you give them of your bottle or from the bottle itself. You now have six sides available for your artwork: top, bottom, front, back, and two side panels.
You will provide the graphics for these panels. In addition to your company name and fragrance brand name, your artwork will include all the information legally required in the countries in which you will be marketing your fragrance. And don't forget the barcode.
Once your printer receives your artwork, your boxes will be manufactured.
Some marketers use a corrugated insert or other device inside the box to give it greater substance and create a more luxurious presentation for the consumer. If you are using an insert, be sure to take it into consideration when calculating the dimensions of your box.
Once you have your box, and once your bottle is placed inside it in the filling and assembly process, you might want a cellophane wrapper around the box to give it a more finished appearance. Your filling house should be able to provide the required cello wrapping.
While pasteboard boxes are generally the logical choice for perfume, be aware that other type of packaging exist, for example cans, tubes, or those plush, snap-lid boxes commonly used for jewelry. These too can be customized for perfume.
The history of perfume in the 20th century is replete with examples of very expensive packaging for certain luxury market fragrances. As an educational exercise it is worth browsing through picture books of historic fragrances by companies such as Guerlain, Houbigant, Caron, and Coty.
Resources
- The Box Co-Op
Good information on the possibilities available for your box. - Box Style Library
From Business Image Printing. Shows various styles of paper boxes. Helps you understand what you will need for your own project. - How to produce your own box in small quantities
Blog article from Anya's Garden. Excellent information for someone who wants to make a small quantity of their own boxes and is willing to do it themself.
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Homemade perfumes generally lack commercial value, regardless of how wonderful they may be, because their creators fail to record how their perfumes were made. To profit from a perfume, to sell it, to sell the rights to it, or have somebody sell it for you, you must be able to make more of it. To make more you need the formula, the record of how the perfume was made: what materials were used and how much of each material was used. While the formula is nothing more than a recipe, a simple piece of paper, it is the key to unlocking your perfume's commercial potential. With the formula in your hand you have the ability to make a few dozen bottles more or, like the celebrities, tens of thousands of bottles. How to create an international production formula for your homemade perfume is a guide to getting you started on the right foot, correctly documenting everything you do as you are doing it, and then using these notes with some basic mathematics to write a simple, accurate, universal formula for your perfume. Writing formulas for your perfumes can change the way you think about them. With your formulas in hand your creations are no longer "here today, gone tomorrow." Now, thanks to your library of formulas, your perfumes become immortal!
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Now when you make your own perfume you can make it fully "commercial" meaning you will be creating a product ready for regular, continuous sales to friends, relatives, and the public! If the fragrance you've made has already won praise, why not share it with others? Some might pay you for it and want it for their web stores or retail boutiques! Creating your own perfume from dropper bottles: Methods, mechanics, and mathematics guides you through steps that can turn your hobby project into a perfume business. Discover how close you are now and how little more you must do to take what you made with essential oils and dropper bottles into a business of your own! For an introduction to this book, watch this video.
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When you name a perfume you create a valuable asset – the name itself. To sell your perfume you want the most effective name possible. But a good name can have value beyond the edge it gives your sales. In naming your fragrance you are creating a trademark and a trademark can have value independent of the product. The value of that trademark can vary. Much depends on how well, in naming your perfume, you follow the trademark "rules." How To Create A More Valuable Name For Your Perfume first helps you develop a name that will be effective in selling your perfume. It then prods you to make use of certain techniques that can turn a good name into a great trademark, strong and valuable. If you have questions about how to protect a name, How To Create A More Valuable Name For Your Perfume will answer many such as:
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