Custom projects

Custom project

Luxury packaging

Fragrance, spirits and jewellery packaging where cork replaces plastic without losing the premium cue.

Luxury brands are under pressure to remove plastic and paint from their packaging without losing the tactile signal that says premium. Cork answers both: a warm-to-touch, natural material with the density and finish quality to sit inside a fragrance box or a spirits presentation case, and a sustainability story that reads cleanly on the specification sheet.

Luxury packaging fails when it whispers plastic. Cork stops that failure at the door — it looks and feels premium, and it documents cleanly against the brand's sustainability commitments at the same time. We machine inserts, sleeves and presentation trays from calibrated cork blocks, finished raw, oiled, lacquered or dyed to the brand's colour standard.

For brand teams, this is often the fastest visible win in a sustainability programme: the plastic blister the customer sees on unboxing is replaced with a machined cork insert that feels better, weighs less, and biodegrades at end of life.

What we deliver

From drawing to installed piece.

  • Fragrance and cosmetics presentation packaging
  • Spirits and champagne gift boxes and inserts
  • Jewellery cases and watch presentation trays
  • Custom-machined cork inserts and blister replacements

Why cork here

Warm-to-touch premium cue

Cork reads as premium the moment the customer lifts the lid — warm, quiet, honest, and unmistakably natural.

Plastic replacement, one-for-one

Machined cork inserts drop directly into existing packaging lines, replacing EVA, PU foam or expanded polystyrene blister trays.

Sustainability that documents cleanly

Carbon-negative, biodegradable, FSC traceable — the environmental profile that luxury sustainability reports need.

Selected projects

Anonymous by client request.

We work under NDA with most of our partners. Project descriptions below are real; client names are withheld.

2024

Fragrance presentation packaging — cork inner tray & sleeve
Paris

2023

Premium spirits gift box with machined cork insert
London

2023

Jewellery brand presentation case in dyed agglomerated cork
Milan

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