
Luxury Fragrance · Sales · India-wide
Estée Lauder
87.7% verified luxury buyer clicks — 25% above the stated luxury beauty baseline.
Valid Click Rate
87.7%
verified from campaign click totals
Click Quality Improvement
↑25%
vs 70% baseline for luxury beauty
Invalid Luxury Clicks Billed
0%
526 invalid clicks — never invoiced
CPC Transparency
100%
every rupee tracked to a verified buyer
Challenge
Fragrance can't be shown. It has to be felt through a creator.
Estée Lauder's Magnolia Bloom needed aspirational buyers who trusted a creator's sensory recommendation. A BOGO offer attracted bargain-seekers; the brand needed genuine fragrance purchase intent.
01
Fragrance is a sensory product — impossible to show in an ad
No display ad or product image can communicate how a fragrance smells — creator emotion and storytelling is the only substitute.
02
BOGO offer drew deal-seekers, not fragrance buyers
A two-for-one promotion attracts bargain chasers who compare and abandon — not the luxury purchase intent needed.
03
Luxury beauty campaigns have above-average invalid traffic rates
High-value product keywords attract bots and click farms — standard networks bill for the full click volume.
04
Luxury brand needs aspirational framing — not discount
Estée Lauder's equity is aspiration. Discount-first messaging undermines brand perception even when it drives traffic.
Solution
Fragrance creators who made Magnolia Bloom a mood — not a product.
Lifestyle and fragrance storytelling creator matching
Creators whose content evokes sensory experience — morning routines, mood boards, luxury lifestyle moments.
Mood-first fragrance content — not product features
Creators described the Magnolia Bloom experience: the occasion, the feeling, the compliments received — not ingredients.
Luxury buyer protection — invalid traffic filtered before billing
89.5% valid click rate — 25% above the luxury beauty baseline — all bot and deal-seeker clicks removed.
Fragrance buyer intent verified on every click
Fixed CPC applied only on confirmed, engaged luxury beauty visitors — no bulk or estimated billing.
Results
89.5% verified luxury buyer clicks. Billing on real buyers only.
Valid Click Rate
↑25%
Valid Clicks
Invalid Clicks Blocked
No
Unverified Buyers Billed
Buyer-Intent Clicks
87.7%
Buyer Protection
Effective CPC
Full
Cost-per-Buyer Tracking
Fragrance can't be sold with a banner. Popbrain's lifestyle creators made Beautiful Magnolia a mood — and 87.7% of every click was a genuine luxury buyer. The BOGO actually drove gifting intent.
Marketing Team
Estée Lauder India
Creator Spotlight
Top performing creators
#
Creator
Followers
CTR
Performance
1
Kirti
@fashionable_kirti · Makeup · Skin Care
90K
4.1%
2
Jasmeet Kaur
@pritzjazz · Luxury Lifestyle · Skin Care
89K
3.5%
3
Akansha Sharma
@akansharmaofficial · Cosmetics · Skin Care
68K
2.9%
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