Akbari Perfume sells niche perfumes online and in five stores in Sofia and Plovdiv. Meta advertising is the main route to new customers, and we manage it in two stages: campaigns for new fragrances and seasonal occasions from October 2025 to February 2026 (VOYAGE, Sultan, Black Friday, Christmas, Layla and Majnoon, Valentine's Day), followed by monthly management from September 2026 featuring the brand's offer, “Buy one, get the second at -50%”.
There are over 70 creatives, shown in the gallery below in the order they were published. Their language changed with the data. At first, they were product posters: one bottle in the world of its notes, with a short line of copy. Then came the pairs with the price of both fragrances, because the offer on the image was what drove orders. From October 2026, the style has been “a photo, not a poster”: an AI model creates the entire scene using the real bottles as a reference—a person, lighting and setting—then the label is replaced with the genuine one from the store, because the model gets it wrong every time. The customer's headline remains word for word on every creative.
Each creative names a fragrance pair that the cart will actually calculate this way: both bottles are in stock, neither is promotional, and the price shown in the image is the checkout price. It may sound minor, but it is the difference between an ad that sells and an ad that leads to a dispute in the cart.
Behind the creatives is infrastructure without which the numbers mean nothing. The Meta product catalogue was rebuilt from the store data, using the thirty best-selling fragrances based on actual orders over twelve months. Meta Pixel and Conversions API were rewritten so that every purchase reaches Meta from both the browser and the server, with deduplication. Every store order records the campaign and ad it came from.
We review the account every week based on revenue and seven-day click attribution, never by number of purchases, because the average order ranges from 35 to 90 euros depending on the fragrance. Before drawing any conclusion, we also read the account log: two other contractors and the owner herself write in it, and a pause or budget change often belongs to someone else. In September 2026, the -50% campaign returned 6.8 times its spend according to Meta data, compared with 3.9 for the account as a whole.