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Dubai Avenue Scents

WhatsApp-First Luxury Fragrance Commerce

Dubai Avenue Scents: Creating a Luxury Shopping Experience Without a Traditional Checkout

Dubai Avenue Scents is a Nigerian luxury fragrance brand offering a collection of rare 50ml scents. Instead of forcing the brand into a conventional cart-and-checkout model, Rexta Technologies built a WhatsApp-first commerce experience where customers select what they want, submit their order details, receive confirmation by email and continue the conversation directly with the brand on WhatsApp.

Location

Nigeria

Year

2025

Service

E-Commerce Development

Client

Dubai Avenue Scents

9

Fragrances in the Collection

3

Automated Email Workflows

WhatsApp

First Ordering Experience

Secure

Order Record System

Admin

Dashboard for Order Management

Animated

Luxury Storefront Experience

01
The Work

Challenges

  • The brand wanted the intimacy of WhatsApp selling without sacrificing the polish expected from a luxury brand.

  • A conventional shopping cart and payment gateway did not fit the way the client wanted to sell.

  • Orders still needed to be recorded reliably rather than disappearing into individual WhatsApp conversations.

  • The public storefront, admin system and backend needed to work together while remaining secure.

  • The experience had to feel simple for the customer even though the underlying architecture was more complex.

02
How We Built It

Our Approach

  • We designed the ordering experience around WhatsApp as the primary conversation channel rather than forcing the brand into a conventional cart-and-checkout model.

  • A smart ordering flow was built so customers could select their fragrance, provide their details and continue the purchase conversation directly on WhatsApp, without navigating a payment page.

  • Orders were structured to persist automatically so the business retained a clear record of every enquiry and purchase without relying on WhatsApp conversation history alone.

  • Automated confirmation emails were introduced so customers received immediate acknowledgement after placing an order.

  • A separate administration environment gave the team visibility and control over incoming orders.

  • The storefront was given purposeful movement and editorial presentation to reflect the luxury positioning of the brand.

03
The Outcome

Results

  • Dubai Avenue Scents launched with a complete storefront, administration system and backend.

  • Customers can place orders through a WhatsApp-first experience without navigating a traditional checkout.

  • Orders are retained in a structured database for the business.

  • Confirmation emails are sent automatically.

  • The platform demonstrates how a Nigerian luxury brand can combine personal selling with a properly engineered digital commerce system.

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What We Used

Tools & Stack

Next.js 14 iconNext.js 14
Supabase iconSupabase
NONodemailer
TypeScript iconTypeScript
Framer Motion iconFramer Motion
Project Visuals

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