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Indie perfume brand

Ecommerce case study

How an indie perfume brand won 20 page-1 rankings and #1 for competitor comparisons, through Reddit.

Won the comparison searches buyers actually make before choosing a fragrance, including the #1 spot for competitor-comparison terms.

20

Page-1 rankings

#1

Competitor comparisons

Organic only

Documented campaign

Numbers as recorded, client anonymized. Ask for the receipts on a call.

Summary

An indie perfume brand came to Engagement Amplified invisible in r/FemFragLab and r/indieperfume, where fragrance buyers compare and validate brands.

Across the campaign the brand earned 20 page-1 rankings and 3 #1 spots, including for direct competitor comparison searches.

It now owns the recommendation on some of the highest-traffic threads in its niche, with one thread alone seen by 60,500 readers a month.

The Challenge

Before working with Engagement Amplified, the brand faced three problems:

  • Absent from the fragrance subreddits where buyers swap honest reviews.
  • Established houses and "dupes" threads dominated the comparisons.
  • Buyers asking "is it legit" or "X vs Y" never found the brand.

The Solution: EA's Reddit Visibility System

We deployed a Reddit visibility system built for credible, human-led discovery, engineered to rank on Google and get cited by AI.

  • Built buyer-matched personas and mapped them to the subreddits their customers actually read.
  • Keyword, competitor and thread analysis to find the highest-intent conversations.
  • Engineered owned threads designed to rank, across top, middle and bottom-of-funnel intent.
  • Natural placement in threads about pricing, alternatives, comparisons and "is X legit".
  • Real, Reddit-native participation, useful first, ban-resistant, no bots or spam.
  • Third-party thread commenting to intercept competitor and category demand.

The Results

Across the campaign, the brand's Reddit footprint took off:

  • Visibility: threads seen by up to 60.5K readers a month
  • Rankings: 20 threads on Google page one
  • Comparisons: #1 for "[brand] vs [competitor]" searches

Execution & Time Commitment

  • Personas + content calendar + thread strategy
  • Ranking, traffic-value & AI-presence tracking
  • Daily credible engagement across target subreddits
  • Monthly performance reporting + Slack support
  • One 30-min strategy kickoff call
  • Async sign-off on personas & tone

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