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Fragrance Forte: banners that sell a scent you can’t smell

We work with UK fragrance retailer Fragrance Forte on an ongoing basis, designing website banners, seasonal sale creatives and ads for the perfume houses they stock, in every size each campaign needs.

ClientFragrance Forte
IndustryFragrance retail, UK
WorkWeb banners & ads
EngagementOngoing, all formats
Website banner for Ahmed Al Maghribi Summer fragrance: a hand holding the bottle out of a vintage car window with the line Depth, distilled for summer
Homepage hero banner, 2500 × 700.

The challenge

Online, nobody can smell a perfume. The banner has to do that job: show what the scent feels like in one glance, make the bottle look worth the price, and work on a phone as well as a desktop. A retailer also needs a steady stream of them, for launches, collections and seasonal sales, without the store starting to look like a patchwork.

What we designed

  • Homepage hero bannersWide desktop banners for launches and collections, built so the headline and bottle stay clear of the edges.
  • Mobile and square versionsEach idea was re-composed for phone screens and social, not just cropped, so nothing important gets cut off.
  • Seasonal sales and paid adsRamadan, Eid and multi-buy offers, plus Meta and Google ad sets for the same campaigns.

The scene tells you the scent

Every bottle gets a setting built from its notes, so a shopper can guess the fragrance before reading a word.

Banner with a perfume bottle on a wooden stand surrounded by pears, raspberries and roses with the line The art of being unforgettable
Fruity and floral notes: pear, berries and roses around the bottle.
Three perfume bottles on wooden plinths in front of a brown curtain with the headline Find the fragrance that fits
A range banner: three scents, one stage, one clear headline.

Built for the phone, too

A lot of shopping happens on phones, so each campaign got its own square and mobile layouts with larger type and a tighter crop on the product.

Square mobile banner showing three Ahmed Al Maghribi bottles with the line Three expressions of power Square mobile banner with a black perfume bottle on wood surrounded by smoke and the line Depth fit for a throne Mobile sale banner showing perfume bottles with a Ramadan offer of 20 percent off White perfume bottle on a stone ledge by the sea with lemons and driftwood

Left to right: a range banner, an oud scent in smoke and wood, a Ramadan sale and a fresh scent by the sea.

Why it works

Short headlines of three to six words, one hero bottle and a setting that matches the notes. Shoppers understand the scent and the offer in a second, and the store stays premium even when a sale is running.

One system, many campaigns

The same rules cover every banner: where the brand mark sits, how much space the headline gets and how the mobile version is composed. New launches and seasonal sales go out quickly without each one being designed from scratch. That is what makes an ongoing partnership work: new campaigns arrive every few weeks, and the look stays consistent.

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