Six Scents is a New York-based fragrance company that collaborates with artists and designers to produce limited edition perfumes, with each release pairing a unique scent with original artwork. The project involved building an e-commerce site for the company, using the OpenCart platform as the shopping cart foundation.
OpenCart is a PHP-based open-source e-commerce platform providing product management, shopping cart, checkout, and order management functionality out of the box. The platform was customized to align visually with the Six Scents main site, which had been built in Flash — a common web technology of the era for visually immersive brand experiences. Matching the OpenCart store's styling to a Flash-based main site required careful CSS work to bridge the visual gap between two different technical environments.
Payment processing was integrated using PayPal, handling the checkout transaction flow and payment authorization. Shipping module integrations were implemented for both FedEx and UPS, enabling real-time shipping rate calculations and label generation based on the order contents and delivery destination. Multi-carrier shipping integrations require connecting to each carrier's API for rate lookups, managing the configuration for shipping zones and weight ranges, and ensuring the checkout experience presents accurate shipping options to the customer before order completion.
The combination of PayPal payment processing and dual-carrier shipping modules represented the full transactional infrastructure needed for an e-commerce operation selling physical fragrance products to a consumer audience, with the OpenCart customization providing the visual framework that presented these operational capabilities within the Six Scents brand context.
