Custom Printed Perfume Boxes with Your Artwork on Every Panel

A printed perfume box carries artwork across every outer panel, not a logo on the front and bare board elsewhere. Pattern wraps around the corners, the top flap matches the sides and the base is not forgotten.

The second difference is the back panel. A printed carton gives the volume, the ingredient list, the batch area and the UK contact details their own set space, laid out to be read.

The carton itself stays simple: folding boxboard, a tuck end top and base, glued down one side. The print is where the work goes.

It is the box that sits on a shelf next to twenty rivals and has to be picked up first.

Seasonal editions are a second use. A rose pattern for Valentine's, a pastel for Mother's Day and a plain black for the rest of the year can all share one carton size.

Salons and small perfume studios use them to move from a hand-applied label to a proper carton without the cost of rigid. Our perfume gift boxes for sets and bundles cover the rigid route when a line grows.

A rose pink prints as rose pink, and a photograph keeps its detail.

Metallic board is a different route. A gold or silver sheet printed with black or a single dark colour looks like foil across the whole box, without the foil cost. The photo on this page shows a black-on-gold carton done that way.

Kraft board mutes everything. Full colour on kraft looks warm and flat, which suits a natural brand but will not give a bright red.

Send a logo, your colours and any pattern or photo, and our designers lay the panels out on the dieline for free.

If you already have a designer, we send the dieline for your size and they drop the artwork in. Either way you get a proof showing every panel flat and a mock-up of the folded box.

Vector files keep type crisp at small sizes. A JPG logo is fine for a large front mark but will blur in a 6 pt ingredient list, so send the text as text.

1. Confirm the bottle size with the cap on and we build the dieline.
2. Send your logo, colours, pattern and the back panel text.
3. Our designers lay out the panels and send a free proof.
4. Mark up changes on the proof until it is right.
5. Approve it, and the carton goes to press.

Most brands with a pattern on the box end up here.

One colour print is a single ink on the board. Black on white, or white on kraft, reads as deliberate and costs less. Two colour print adds a second ink, often a brand colour beside black.

Metallic looks come from foil stamping or metallic board rather than ink, so plan for one of those if the name must shine. Our beauty packaging print finishes guide compares the two.

Gloss lamination deepens colour and wipes clean. Matt lamination flattens it and hides fingerprints.

Soft touch lamination gives the velvet hand that fragrance buyers expect, at the cost of showing scuffs on dark colours over time.

Spot UV over a laminated pattern makes part of the print shine while the rest stays flat. That is how a rose motif glints under shop lighting.

• Gloss lamination: brightest colour, easy to wipe
• Matt lamination: calm, no glare on the shelf
• Soft touch lamination: velvet feel, marks more on black
• Spot UV: a gloss pattern on a matt ground
• Foil stamping: metallic name or border
• Embossing: a raised crest you can feel

The responsible person's name and address go on too. Warnings and a period-after-opening symbol go on as well where they apply.

That is a lot of text for a 45 mm wide panel. We set it in a clear sans at 6 pt or larger and keep the batch area blank for your inkjet or sticker.

The packaging checklist for launching a brand lists each item so nothing is missed at proof stage.

Add about 3 mm to the width and depth and 5 mm to the height for a carton without a platform.

A card platform glued into the base holds the bottle off the floor and stops it sliding. Allow 10 mm more height when you want one.

If the cap is wider than the bottle, measure the cap. A 50 ml bottle with a chunky 40 mm cap needs a box cut to the cap, not the glass.

Keep the name in the top third of the front panel, where eyes land first.

Give the side panels a job too. In a shop a row of cartons shows its sides as often as its fronts, so a stripe of colour or a repeated motif helps.

Print the base panel a solid colour. It costs nothing extra on a full colour run and hides scuffs from the shelf edge.

It looks fine on a screen and vanishes on board.

Another is a photo that crosses a crease. Faces and bottles split across a fold never look right, so keep them inside a single panel.

The last is approving the proof without reading the back panel aloud. A wrong volume or a missing postcode means a reprint at your cost, so check it twice.

Quotes start from £0.25 per unit, are set per order and arrive in writing.

Once the free proof is signed off, the run takes 4 to 6 business days. It then ships free with tracking to any UK address in 2 to 3 business days. Misprints or damage reported within 10 days with photos are reprinted or refunded, and the Design Your Packaging page is the quickest place to start.