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Events & showroom · 2026
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Forty editors, four days.
Forty editors, four days.
A first collection, no press history, and one week in Paris that mattered. How a four-day showroom put a young fragrance house in front of forty editors — and what happened after.
A first collection, no press history, and one week in Paris that mattered. How a four-day showroom put a young fragrance house in front of forty editors — and what happened after.
The brief
The brief
Maison Sage had a debut collection worth smelling and nobody who had smelled it. Fragrance is the hardest category to pitch remotely — the product is the room. The brief: get the right forty people into that room during the busiest week of their year.
Maison Sage had a debut collection worth smelling and nobody who had smelled it. Fragrance is the hardest category to pitch remotely — the product is the room. The brief: get the right forty people into that room during the busiest week of their year.
What we did
What we did
We ran the showroom as an edit, not an open house. Personal invitations in three waves, thirty-minute slots, the founder present for every one. Staging was built around the collection’s materials, and every visit ended with a follow-up scheduled before the editor left the building.
We ran the showroom as an edit, not an open house. Personal invitations in three waves, thirty-minute slots, the founder present for every one. Staging was built around the collection’s materials, and every visit ended with a follow-up scheduled before the editor left the building.
What changed
What changed
Twelve features ran in the following quarter, written by people who had stood in the room. Stockist enquiries arrived from three countries — none of them pitched.
Twelve features ran in the following quarter, written by people who had stood in the room. Stockist enquiries arrived from three countries — none of them pitched.
The results
40
Editors through the room in four days
Editors through the room in four days
12
Features in the following quarter
Features in the following quarter
3
Countries with stockist enquiries
Countries with stockist enquiries
“Editors kept mentioning the room itself. They made the collection something you had to have been in.”
Founder, Maison Sage
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