A dark perfume bottle in soft studio light for the Maison Orvelle case study

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Fragrance

2026

Maison Orvelle

A fragrance house reborn around the quiet ritual of scent, with a wordmark cut like glass.

Client

Maison Orvelle

Sector

Fragrance

Year

2026

Services

Strategy, Identity, Packaging

(01) The brief

Orvelle had heritage but no voice. Its bottles were beautiful and its brand felt borrowed. We were asked to give a 90 year old house a presence that felt inevitable, not nostalgic.

The idea

We started by removing things. Old colours, extra marks, a tagline nobody remembered. What was left was a single idea about Maison Orvelle that the whole team could say in one breath, and that idea shaped every decision that followed.

From there we built a system rather than a logo. Type, colour, photography and motion were tuned to work together, so the brand would feel the same on a shopfront in Milan and on a phone screen at midnight.

The craft

Every detail was drawn by hand before it was set in code. We tested the identity at thumbnail size and at billboard scale, in daylight and under warm interior light, until it held its character everywhere.

The result is a brand that feels quiet and certain. It does not shout for attention. It earns it.

+212%

Online sales in launch quarter

14

Markets launched in one season

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