Min. 100 units · 3–5 days
Home Fragrance Boxes
Custom Home Fragrance Packaging
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Bespoke reed Diffuser Boxes manufactured to order, with material and finish chosen around how the product ships.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing and the finish you have in mind. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Reed Diffuser Boxes hold a filled glass bottle and a bundle of reeds substantially longer than the bottle is tall. That is the starting point for the specification, because two things decide this format: a reed compartment separate from the bottle, and a sealed transit cap rather than the open collar. Ship on the collar and it will leak.
In service they are used for home fragrance retail and gifting, where the pack ships filled with liquid and cannot leak into a customer's order.
Reed Diffuser Boxes are specified for home fragrance retail and gifting, where the pack ships filled with liquid and cannot leak into a customer's order. Two things decide this format: a reed compartment separate from the bottle, and a sealed transit cap rather than the open collar. Ship on the collar and it will leak.
18pt SBS with an internal partition, or rigid where the set sits at a gift price point.
The options we would consider for this format are below; two things decide this format: a reed compartment separate from the bottle, and a sealed transit cap rather than the open collar. Ship on the collar and it will leak.
A tall narrow front panel is what shows on shelf. Design for a vertical strip rather than for the full wrap.
Offset lithography, Digital press, Flexography are all available for this format. Run length usually decides which is cheapest: digital removes the plate cost on short quantities, offset and flexo overtake it at volume.
A tall narrow front panel is what shows on shelf. Design for a vertical strip rather than for the full wrap.
Each finish below is a separate pass on the press or the finishing line, which is why they are quoted individually rather than bundled.
Governed by the reeds, not the bottle — reeds run 10 to 12 in, so the carton is usually 12 in tall for a bottle around 5 in.
Send the contents rather than a box size. The carton is sized to the bottle and the reeds are treated as an accessory, when they are the component that sets the dimensions.
Supply artwork on the dieline we send you, with 3 mm bleed past every trim edge and all text held 4 mm inside the fold lines.
Supply a print-ready PDF or vector file with fonts outlined and images at 300 dpi. Our prepress team checks every file before a proof is issued. The check that catches most files is type sitting too close to a crease, which is easier to move at layout than at proof.
Start with dimensions and quantity. If you already run something similar, a physical sample tells us more in a minute than a specification does in a page.
A dieline template follows, sized to your product. Prepress checks your artwork against it and issues a proof; nothing runs until you sign that off.
Foil, soft-touch and deboss all read differently in person than on a screen, so we recommend a printed prototype rather than a digital proof alone for anything finish-led.
Sample costs are normally credited against the production order.
Reference
| Product | Reed Diffuser Boxes |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Home Fragrance Packaging |
| Construction | Die-cut, creased and seam-glued |
| Board thickness | 12pt – 18pt depending on product weight |
| Ships as | Flat-packed, glued one seam |
| Materials | 12pt SBS paperboard, 14pt SBS paperboard, 16pt SBS paperboard, 18pt kraft board |
| Printing | Offset lithography, Digital press, Flexography |
| Finishes | Gloss lamination, Matte lamination, Soft-touch lamination, Spot UV, Foil stamping |
| Minimum order | Minimum order is 100 units on any format, and unit cost falls sharply as the quantity rises. |
| Lead time | 3 to 5 business days after artwork approval |
| Shipping | Across the US, UK, Canada and Australia |
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Governed by the reeds, not the bottle — reeds run 10 to 12 in, so the carton is usually 12 in tall for a bottle around 5 in.
The reeds puncture the carton corner in transit, or the bottle leaks because it travelled on its collar rather than on a sealed transit cap.
Specified for home fragrance retail and gifting, where the pack ships filled with liquid and cannot leak into a customer's order.
Two things decide this format: a reed compartment separate from the bottle, and a sealed transit cap rather than the open collar. Ship on the collar and it will leak.
This format sits in our custom home fragrance packaging range, alongside 2 other made-to-order formats.
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Specification, minimums and lead times for reed diffuser boxes.
Nearly always because they shipped with the open collar fitted rather than a sealed transit cap. The customer swaps the cap for the collar when they set it up. Reed length is the other thing to get right — it sets the carton height, not the bottle.
At the widest point, which is frequently not the base, and including the cap or pump. Send us the actual container if you can — a measurement from a drawing misses flex and applied label thickness, and both decide whether reed diffuser boxes close cleanly.
More than most brands allow for. Ingredient copy and any warnings compete directly with the design, and adding them late usually forces a reflow. We block the area on the dieline before you commit design time.
Flat and glued along one seam, so they pop open on your packing line. That keeps freight cost down considerably compared with a pre-assembled structure.
Yes. We can send a plain unprinted sample so you can check the fit and structure, or a printed prototype for colour and finish. Sample costs are normally credited against the production order. Ask for the printed prototype rather than the plain sample if the question is finish — soft-touch, foil and deboss all read differently in the hand than on a screen.
Send the current specification or a physical sample and we will quote to match it rather than proposing an alternative you would then have to re-approve internally. A physical sample tells us more than a specification sheet — board caliper and coating are usually described loosely and measured exactly.
All 50 US states, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, on the same timeline everywhere: 3 to 5 business days of production after artwork approval, then 5 to 7 business days in transit. Every run is made to order and shipped directly to your address rather than pulled from stock, so you receive current production rather than whatever has been sitting in a warehouse. Freight is costed separately by weight, volume and destination. Tell us at quoting if the delivery point cannot take a pallet, and we will break the consignment into cartons instead.
Every run is cut to your dimensions — there are no stock sizes here. Send the product measurements rather than a box size and we will build the folding carton around them, then send a dieline template you can design onto.
We issue a dieline template sized to your product, prepress checks your artwork against it, and a proof comes back for sign-off. Nothing runs until you approve that proof, and folding cartons then take 3 to 5 business days.
Yes. Once a first run is approved we hold the board, structure, dimensions, print method and finishes against your account, so a reorder references the same specification exactly rather than being re-derived. That includes the ink formulation, which is what keeps a brand colour consistent between runs rather than drifting a shade each time.
Recycled grades are available across most of the substrates we run for folding cartons. Recycled content, kerbside recyclability and certified compostability are three different claims though, so tell us which one you intend to print.
A print-ready PDF or a vector file, with fonts outlined and any raster images at 300 dpi at final size. We supply the dieline to design onto, and prepress checks bleed, safe area and crease clearance before issuing a proof. The dieline we supply carries the crease positions, so keeping type clear of a crease is easier to solve at layout than at proof.
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Send the dimensions, the quantity and the finish you want. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.