AXE Fine Fragrance Mexico Creator Campaign

A creator-driven fragrance experience that transformed AXE into a premium cultural lifestyle moment in the heart of Mexico City.

The AXE Fine Fragrance Mexico campaign combined creator culture, premium fragrance storytelling and experiential marketing into one cohesive social-first activation. Together with Nahim Sky, Kelvin, Marvin and Mohi, AXE transformed a product launch into an immersive Mexico City experience centered around fragrance, lifestyle and culture.

The campaign focused on positioning the AXE Fine Fragrance Collection alongside luxury perfumes by creating creator-led content that blurred the line between affordable body spray and premium scents. Pre-launch teaser content challenged audiences to guess whether creators were reviewing expensive perfumes or AXE products, generating strong curiosity and conversation online. During the Mexico City trip, creators documented fragrance workshops, hotel experiences, rooftop recovery sessions, dining and city exploration through authentic lifestyle content. Instead of traditional advertising, AXE became part of a premium cultural moment naturally integrated into each creator’s content ecosystem.

A key success factor was the close collaboration between Mative and Dokyo. Through Dokyo’s creativity, local cultural understanding and premium production approach, the campaign was able to create visually elevated and authentic moments throughout the entire experience. Combined with Mative’s creator marketing expertise, both teams delivered a seamless and culturally relevant campaign that translated into highly impactful organic content across all platforms.

At Mative, we create culture-driven creator campaigns that turn authentic experiences into measurable social impact.

CHALLENGE

With the launch of the new AXE Fine Fragrance Collection, the challenge was to reposition body spray within a new cultural context. AXE wanted to prove that its new fragrances could compete with premium perfumes — not only through scent, but through perception, lifestyle and storytelling. The goal was to create a campaign that blurred the line between affordable fragrance and luxury perfume culture, while authentically connecting with Gen Z audiences through creators.

At the same time, the content needed to feel organic, elevated and experience-driven — moving away from traditional product advertising and instead embedding AXE into a premium lifestyle moment centered around fragrance, culture and exploration in Mexico City.

@mohi__07 Anzeige | deshalb hat es so gerochen 😂 | #AXE #AXEFineFragrance #CherryFizz @AXE ♬ original sound - Mohi 🐉
@nahimsky Mexiko mit den Jungs & @axe.offiziell – riecht nach ’nem guten Trip 🇲🇽🔥 #AXEFineFragrance#AXE ♬ Originalton - nahimsky
@mohi__07 Anzeige | markiert einen, der euch nichts erzählt 😂 | #AXE #AXEFineFragrance #CherryFizz @AXE ♬ original sound - Mohi 🐉

STRATEGY

From Product Launch to an Immersive Fragrance Experience

Mative brought together four creators — Nahim Sky, Kelvin, Marvin and Mohi — and transformed the campaign into a multi-day immersive brand experience in Mexico City. Before the trip, creators teased the AXE Fine Fragrance Collection through social-first content formats designed to spark conversation: audiences were challenged to guess whether the scent being reviewed was a luxury perfume or an AXE deodorant. This created intrigue and positioned the product directly next to expensive fragrances in the minds of consumers.

The second phase brought the creators to Mexico City for an exclusive AXE Fine Fragrance Workshop. The experience combined education, culture and lifestyle to create highly aesthetic and authentic content moments.

Key touchpoints included:

– Fine fragrance workshops hosted by fragrance experts
– Luxury hotel experiences and gifting moments
– The Recovery Rooftop with chilled beats, poolside content and wellness moments
– Dining experiences across Mexico City
– Exploration-focused “day in the life” content showcasing the city and creator interactions

Instead of focusing purely on product placements, the campaign positioned AXE as part of a premium fragrance lifestyle — creating content that felt aspirational, cinematic and native to each creator’s audience.

RESULTS

Numbers That Prove Cultural Relevance

The AXE Mexico City campaign delivered strong organic performance across Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, proving the strength of creator-led storytelling combined with experiential content.

Across the campaign period, a total of 21 content pieces were published, including Instagram Reels, Stories, TikTok videos and YouTube Shorts. The campaign generated over 2.75 million impressions and reached more than 1.33 million unique users organically — without relying on heavy paid amplification.

The content achieved particularly strong audience interaction, generating over 85,000 engagements with an engagement rate of 3.65%. In addition, the campaign drove more than 74,000 likes, over 1,000 comments and 948 shares, showing that audiences actively interacted with and distributed the content within their own communities.

A standout indicator for the quality and relevance of the content was the high number of saves, with more than 4,500 saves across platforms. This demonstrated that the content was not only consumed in the moment, but perceived as aspirational and worth revisiting.

The combination of luxury-inspired fragrance storytelling, creator authenticity and the Mexico City experience resulted in highly organic audience resonance and successfully positioned AXE Fine Fragrance within a more premium cultural space.

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