Silver Packaging · 2020

Mau Waxed Perfume

by Moe Nakagawa

Silver A' Design Award 2020 in Packaging
CLIENT: Moe Nakagawa
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About Mau Waxed Perfume

Mau is a packaging design for a waxed perfume inspired by Japanese tradition. The name Mau means dancing while floating, and the theme is softness and lightness. The perfume is held in a paper tube made of washi, a traditional Japanese paper. A touch of watercolor on the washi expresses the gentle character of the fragrance. Waxed perfume has a low water content, so the package can be made of paper alone, without plastic. The soft scent is intended for people who find alcohol based perfume too strong.

About the Silver A' Design Award

Mau Waxed Perfume is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Mau Waxed Perfume is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Mau Waxed Perfume is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: The mau is a Japanese-oriented waxed perfume.
Waxed perfume has a soft smell that spreads calmness and this is wrapped by washi that is Japanese traditional paper.
A touch of watercolor is used to depict the softness of fragrance and sensitive sense.
Dimensions & Packaging: Product: Φ14 mm x Height 77mm
Tags: perfume, package, packaging design, Japan, washi, waxed perfume
Production Technology: A wax is mixed with jojoba oil and essential oil while being hot. When everything is blended together, pour waxed perfume into paper tube made of washi (This is a conceptual work, so it's a hypothetical production method).
Design Challenge: It can use only paper without plastics for package as wax perfume's water content is less than alcohol one.
Research: Some people don’t prefer alcohol perfume as most of them smell too strong. However, waxed perfume has a soft smell that spreads calmness, which seems more suitable for consumer who have an aversion to strong smells.
Inspiration: The theme is softness and Lightness like floating in the air.
Mau means dancing like floating in Japanese.
Some people don’t prefer alcohol perfume as most of them smell too strong in their standard. However, waxed perfume’s soft smell seems more suitable for them.
Project Duration: 2016-2019
Operation Flow: Waxed perfume makes it possible to enjoy wrapped in favorite fragrance even if people who don't prefer strong smell.
Image Credits: Moe Nakagawa(all)