Help Speak Scents Get To Stage 2 - Disrupting All Fragrance Shopping
By Madeleine Patel
NZ $15,317 pledged
56 people pledged
Closed
NZ $15,000 minimum target
This campaign was successful and closed on 12/04/2024 at 11:00 AM.
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Help Speak Scents Get To Stage 2 - Disrupting All Fragrance Shopping
Project 2024-03-10 14:56:50 +1300
Help us reach the next stage in our journey!
We launched Speak Scents in early 2023 because we believe everyone deserves to smell amazing. Our epic PledgeMe supporters helped us launch our first ever product range, by doubling our target! Since then, our loyal customers have been loving our scents, and enjoying their scent matches using our handy online quiz, because finding your perfect fragrance is hard work. To power this deceptively simple quiz, we developed a unique algorithm, and along the way realised we could use this technology to also help our customers find their perfect fragrances from any brand.
Why are we here?
When you smell amazing, you feel that little bit more confident. And to smell amazing you need a scent that’s just right for you. Anyone who’s tried perfume shopping knows this is difficult! Something as important as how you smell should be based on who you are. So we're using using data to make this easier.
From then to now: Perfume to Perfume Technology
We’re pretty excited about the opportunity to disrupt perfume retail to make it easier to find fragrance you love without the in-store headache, on a global scale! So - we are evolving from life as a perfume company, to a consumer technology platform (that also sells perfume, including our own signature range), and we need your help to do this.
We want to simplify your fragrance search and cut through the confusing jargon, overwhelming number of products and terrifying sales assistants to find fragrances you love, all through our online platform. Imagine being able to answer a few simple questions and being told exactly what you should try, online AND in stores!
We need your support.
We need your support to help us realise this vision and move our handy quiz to a fragrance recommendation platform that can transform perfume shopping globally.
Our long term vision is to convince retailers to use our technology in stores to help your shopping experience be waaaay better.
What we learned from our first year
After a bit over a year in business Ankit and I have realised we can do this on a much greater scale, with bigger impact, if we use our technology across lots of different brands already out there, and help more people simplify their search for fragrance. So we need your help!
What's in it for you
We’ve heard our customers really love our products, so just for this campaign, we’re offering perfume bundles at outstanding, not-to-be-repeated prices. But don’t just take our word for it - listen to the people…
Our little buddy - the algorithm - is keen to learn from you
In return, we’re asking for feedback on your scent matches, once you’ve received them and had a chance to try them out. This feedback is really important in helping our algorithms get even smarter and learn more over time. We’ll follow up after you’ve tried your scents with a quick survey to capture this data.
Stretch goal: $20K
Help us reach our stretch goal and launch our new personalised discovery kits!
The kits will include your personalised matches, but from our range. You’ll receive: your first match, second match and a wild card to compare to, all in handy sample sizes to try out first before committing to a bottle.
These kits are an important part of our new platform - they help check we’ve got your matches right and get your feedback first hand.
How do I get the goods?
Once the campaign closes and we (hopefully!) hit our target, we’ll send you a unique code that recognises you’ve already pledged, and for which reward. You can head to speakscents.com to find your matches by taking our quiz, enter your shipping details and unique code and we’ll send out your scents.
The future
We’re committed to our vision: To simplify beauty discovery, starting with fragrance, using groundbreaking technology - to build the easiest way to find your favourite fragrance across all brands online and in store, in a much simpler, less confusing and overwhelming way so you can smell good and feel great without the headache. Once we have a proven prototype we’ll be building technology for stores.
What's next!
Once we’ve tested our prototype platform, we’ll be back with equity crowdfunding opportunities so you can truly join us in transforming a global industry! In the next stage of our journey, we’ll be convincing retailers to use our technology in stores to help make your perfume shopping experience easier. This means less unwanted impulse purchases, less half used bottles, and more confidence for you - smelling great.
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Updates 4
One Day To Go! 🙌
11/04/2024 at 9:20 AM
Hello amazing supporters!
It's crunch time! We have just over 24 hours left for our campaign to reach it's minimum target of $15,000. And as you know - it's an all or nothing situation - if we don't reach the minimum, we don't get the cash. We're so close!
If you know anyone at all who may be interested in any of these...
- Limited edition Heaven Scent sweatshirt
- Amazing deals on new fragrances
- Access to an in demand data scientist to help your business understand your customers
- Hearing tales of a startup's rollercoaster journey
...then please please share the campaign! The further we can spread the word, the better.
Thanks so much for following our journey, your continued support, and your shares and kind messages on all the platforms. It really helps to keep us going.
With endless gratitude,
Mads & Ankit
Four days to go! Help us spread the word
08/04/2024 at 2:50 PM
This is our last week and the last push to get our campaign over the line. We have a long way to go to reach our target and need all the help we can get to push the campaign in the last week! If all our supporters share it with just one person, it'd be a huuuuge help.
We've also just brought back our limited edition sweatshirts! Only available for four more days.
And for those of you who are closet data enthusiasts, we have workshops and recommendations sessions to help businesses better understand their customer data. Tell someone who this could help!
We are so very appreciative of all your support - we know it's tough out there at the moment. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Mads & Ankit
It's been a week already!
19/03/2024 at 3:20 PM
And we have already reached 17% of our goal! We're super stoked to have got this far already. If you believe in what we're doing though, we really need your help to share the campaign around. Even a quick post on the office slack or friendly watsapp group goes a long way! We have a bunch of rewards that aren't perfume and can help with your data and analytics needs too if you know anyone needing a hand.
Lessgo!
M&A
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Pledgers 56
02/04/2024 at 11:17am
02/04/2024 at 11:16am
02/04/2024 at 9:21am
28/03/2024 at 9:44am
"Awesome work!"
25/03/2024 at 1:07pm
22/03/2024 at 3:21pm
"Go Madz and Ankit 💥 "
19/03/2024 at 2:49pm
18/03/2024 at 3:11pm
"I absolutely love everything this is about and wish you all the best! "
18/03/2024 at 2:30pm
"Good luck with the campaign1"
17/03/2024 at 8:52pm
15/03/2024 at 2:42pm
"Go you good things! So excited for this next phase."
15/03/2024 at 2:29pm
"Good luck Madeleine, and I look forward to trying a new scent :)"
14/03/2024 at 5:02pm
"Go guys!"
14/03/2024 at 2:04pm
"If theres one thing I love and can never have enough of its perfume so good luck with this venture! "
14/03/2024 at 12:28pm
"Go you good good things!!"
14/03/2024 at 11:41am
14/03/2024 at 11:28am
"This is such a great product and takes the guesswork out of trying to buy fragrance for others (like my mum who loves it). All the best with the campaign. "
14/03/2024 at 11:25am
"Excited to see it all come together!"
14/03/2024 at 9:45am
"LOVE YOUR WORK GANG"
13/03/2024 at 2:41pm
"I'm excited to be part of Speak Scents' growth! Plus I'm keen to try out the recommendations. :)"
13/03/2024 at 12:34pm
13/03/2024 at 12:24pm
"Best Wishes to the Patels. Love your story."
12/03/2024 at 9:24pm
12/03/2024 at 7:00pm
12/03/2024 at 6:15pm
"I pledged already on your first campaign. Love your work (as well as the perfumes!) and the progress you have made. And now, you blew me away with changing your entire business model. I'm happy to be a tester for the future to get the recommendations right. ✌️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽"
12/03/2024 at 4:26pm
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Help Speak Scents Get To Stage 2 - Disrupting All Fragrance Shopping
Project 2024-03-10 14:56:50 +1300
Help us reach the next stage in our journey!
We launched Speak Scents in early 2023 because we believe everyone deserves to smell amazing. Our epic PledgeMe supporters helped us launch our first ever product range, by doubling our target! Since then, our loyal customers have been loving our scents, and enjoying their scent matches using our handy online quiz, because finding your perfect fragrance is hard work. To power this deceptively simple quiz, we developed a unique algorithm, and along the way realised we could use this technology to also help our customers find their perfect fragrances from any brand.
Why are we here?
When you smell amazing, you feel that little bit more confident. And to smell amazing you need a scent that’s just right for you. Anyone who’s tried perfume shopping knows this is difficult! Something as important as how you smell should be based on who you are. So we're using using data to make this easier.
From then to now: Perfume to Perfume Technology
We’re pretty excited about the opportunity to disrupt perfume retail to make it easier to find fragrance you love without the in-store headache, on a global scale! So - we are evolving from life as a perfume company, to a consumer technology platform (that also sells perfume, including our own signature range), and we need your help to do this.
We want to simplify your fragrance search and cut through the confusing jargon, overwhelming number of products and terrifying sales assistants to find fragrances you love, all through our online platform. Imagine being able to answer a few simple questions and being told exactly what you should try, online AND in stores!
We need your support.
We need your support to help us realise this vision and move our handy quiz to a fragrance recommendation platform that can transform perfume shopping globally.
Our long term vision is to convince retailers to use our technology in stores to help your shopping experience be waaaay better.
What we learned from our first year
After a bit over a year in business Ankit and I have realised we can do this on a much greater scale, with bigger impact, if we use our technology across lots of different brands already out there, and help more people simplify their search for fragrance. So we need your help!
What's in it for you
We’ve heard our customers really love our products, so just for this campaign, we’re offering perfume bundles at outstanding, not-to-be-repeated prices. But don’t just take our word for it - listen to the people…
Our little buddy - the algorithm - is keen to learn from you
In return, we’re asking for feedback on your scent matches, once you’ve received them and had a chance to try them out. This feedback is really important in helping our algorithms get even smarter and learn more over time. We’ll follow up after you’ve tried your scents with a quick survey to capture this data.
Stretch goal: $20K
Help us reach our stretch goal and launch our new personalised discovery kits!
The kits will include your personalised matches, but from our range. You’ll receive: your first match, second match and a wild card to compare to, all in handy sample sizes to try out first before committing to a bottle.
These kits are an important part of our new platform - they help check we’ve got your matches right and get your feedback first hand.
How do I get the goods?
Once the campaign closes and we (hopefully!) hit our target, we’ll send you a unique code that recognises you’ve already pledged, and for which reward. You can head to speakscents.com to find your matches by taking our quiz, enter your shipping details and unique code and we’ll send out your scents.
The future
We’re committed to our vision: To simplify beauty discovery, starting with fragrance, using groundbreaking technology - to build the easiest way to find your favourite fragrance across all brands online and in store, in a much simpler, less confusing and overwhelming way so you can smell good and feel great without the headache. Once we have a proven prototype we’ll be building technology for stores.
What's next!
Once we’ve tested our prototype platform, we’ll be back with equity crowdfunding opportunities so you can truly join us in transforming a global industry! In the next stage of our journey, we’ll be convincing retailers to use our technology in stores to help make your perfume shopping experience easier. This means less unwanted impulse purchases, less half used bottles, and more confidence for you - smelling great.
Comments
One Day To Go! 🙌
11/04/2024 at 9:20 AM
Hello amazing supporters!
It's crunch time! We have just over 24 hours left for our campaign to reach it's minimum target of $15,000. And as you know - it's an all or nothing situation - if we don't reach the minimum, we don't get the cash. We're so close!
If you know anyone at all who may be interested in any of these...
- Limited edition Heaven Scent sweatshirt
- Amazing deals on new fragrances
- Access to an in demand data scientist to help your business understand your customers
- Hearing tales of a startup's rollercoaster journey
...then please please share the campaign! The further we can spread the word, the better.
Thanks so much for following our journey, your continued support, and your shares and kind messages on all the platforms. It really helps to keep us going.
With endless gratitude,
Mads & Ankit
Four days to go! Help us spread the word
08/04/2024 at 2:50 PM
This is our last week and the last push to get our campaign over the line. We have a long way to go to reach our target and need all the help we can get to push the campaign in the last week! If all our supporters share it with just one person, it'd be a huuuuge help.
We've also just brought back our limited edition sweatshirts! Only available for four more days.
And for those of you who are closet data enthusiasts, we have workshops and recommendations sessions to help businesses better understand their customer data. Tell someone who this could help!
We are so very appreciative of all your support - we know it's tough out there at the moment. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Mads & Ankit
It's been a week already!
19/03/2024 at 3:20 PM
And we have already reached 17% of our goal! We're super stoked to have got this far already. If you believe in what we're doing though, we really need your help to share the campaign around. Even a quick post on the office slack or friendly watsapp group goes a long way! We have a bunch of rewards that aren't perfume and can help with your data and analytics needs too if you know anyone needing a hand.
Lessgo!
M&A
You need to pledge to see this update.
02/04/2024 at 11:17am
02/04/2024 at 11:16am
02/04/2024 at 9:21am
28/03/2024 at 9:44am
"Awesome work!"
25/03/2024 at 1:07pm
22/03/2024 at 3:21pm
"Go Madz and Ankit 💥 "
19/03/2024 at 2:49pm
18/03/2024 at 3:11pm
"I absolutely love everything this is about and wish you all the best! "
18/03/2024 at 2:30pm
"Good luck with the campaign1"
17/03/2024 at 8:52pm
15/03/2024 at 2:42pm
"Go you good things! So excited for this next phase."
15/03/2024 at 2:29pm
"Good luck Madeleine, and I look forward to trying a new scent :)"
14/03/2024 at 5:02pm
"Go guys!"
14/03/2024 at 2:04pm
"If theres one thing I love and can never have enough of its perfume so good luck with this venture! "
14/03/2024 at 12:28pm
"Go you good good things!!"
14/03/2024 at 11:41am
14/03/2024 at 11:28am
"This is such a great product and takes the guesswork out of trying to buy fragrance for others (like my mum who loves it). All the best with the campaign. "
14/03/2024 at 11:25am
"Excited to see it all come together!"
14/03/2024 at 9:45am
"LOVE YOUR WORK GANG"
13/03/2024 at 2:41pm
"I'm excited to be part of Speak Scents' growth! Plus I'm keen to try out the recommendations. :)"
13/03/2024 at 12:34pm
13/03/2024 at 12:24pm
"Best Wishes to the Patels. Love your story."
12/03/2024 at 9:24pm
12/03/2024 at 7:00pm
12/03/2024 at 6:15pm
"I pledged already on your first campaign. Love your work (as well as the perfumes!) and the progress you have made. And now, you blew me away with changing your entire business model. I'm happy to be a tester for the future to get the recommendations right. ✌️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽"
12/03/2024 at 4:26pm
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