Branding Emocional: o design da experiência olfativa do consumidor em sua relação com o ecossistema comunicacional da marca Farm

Abstract

This research discusses the phenomenon of emotional branding through recognition of semiotics and olfactory experience of the consumers in Farm brand’s physical store environment from the semiotic point of view and the ecosystem approach to communication. Therefore, the specific objectives of discussing consumer olfactory experience in the context of hypermodern society were established, conceptualize consumer olfactory experience design with the environment aroma of the brand from the semiotic and ecosystem point of view and analyze the emotions involved the consumer olfactory experience with the scent of brand environment. In this sense, the theoretical background involves studying and researching of languages, representations and aesthetic communication from an ecosystem perspective, according to authors Monteiro (2011) and Pereira (2012), Peirce’s semiotics and the semiotics of culture, theory the affordances Gibson (1979) and Morin’s complex thought (2008). The developed research is qualitative, empirical and exploratory nature, it has having been used in its methodology techniques by Moraes and Mont'Alvão (2010) as a basis for modeling Farm brand’s communication ecosystem, the systematic observation Gil (2010) to collect data on the environment selected as analysis system target and Bardin content analysis (2011) on the data collected through interviews applied to the brand consumers. The development of the research took place in the physical store of Farm brand, located in Shopping Manauara, placed in Manaus city, within the Graduate Program in Communication Sciences - PPGCCOM from Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM. The main results can be mentioned the presentation of communication complexity of the brand studied through systematic analysis of their contact points and the subsequent location of the physical store environment and the aroma within this ecosystem. Noteworthy is also the characterization of the effects of semiosis exerted on the consumer during the studied consumer experience.