Velvet Aura

Velvet Aura is a mock.shop sample store for building against a small fragrance catalog with product-specific options before a real Shopify store is ready. It includes listings categorized as Fragrance Oil, Perfume Extracts, Candles, and Scented Sachets. The catalog has 8 products across 2 collections. Every product has two or three variants from one option, with lowercase names such as size, scent, and finish.

mock.shop is an auth-free Shopify Storefront GraphQL API backed by sample reference stores. Find out more about mock.shop sample stores.

When to use this store

Choose Velvet Aura when you’re building a compact fragrance shop with product-specific choices such as size, scent, and finish.

Use Velvet Aura for:

• Fragrance storefronts with product-specific selectors
• Display labels kept separate from canonical option names and values
• Handling a null variant lookup caused by a changed option name

Choose another mock.shop store if you need multi-option products or nonshipping digital goods. Browse https://mock.shop/llms.txt to find a store that matches your catalog.

Example Velvet Aura query

Here’s an example GraphQL POST request that retrieves a bottle and compares two variant lookups that differ only in option-name casing from https://fragrance.mock.shop/api:

curl https://fragrance.mock.shop/api \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{"query":"{ bottle: product(handle: \"frosted-glass-eau-de-parfum-bottle\") { id title options { name values } exact: variantBySelectedOptions(selectedOptions: [{name: \"size\", value: \"50ml\"}]) { id selectedOptions { name value } price { amount currencyCode } } changedCase: variantBySelectedOptions(selectedOptions: [{name: \"Size\", value: \"50ml\"}]) { id } } }"}'

This query returns the product ID, title, options, and two aliased lookups. The exact lookup uses size and 50ml and returns a variant; changedCase uses Size and the same value and returns null. Adapt the query for your storefront needs.

The endpoint doesn't require authentication or an access token. Read https://fragrance.mock.shop/llms.txt for catalog details and store-specific instructions.

What this catalog lets you test

Build fragrance product pages with option selectors and selected-variant prices. In your client, display “Size” if appropriate, but keep the returned size key in selection state and API requests. Check that selecting 50ml resolves to a variant ID with the original key, and that a failed lookup doesn’t leave a stale variant selected. All eight products use lowercase option names, so a shared label-formatting helper must not rewrite those names before lookup.

Preview the catalog in a storefront by opening https://fragrance.hydrogen.mock.shop in a browser.

Build with an AI coding tool

To build a fragrance storefront with Velvet Aura using Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, or another AI assistant, copy the prompt below. It gives the assistant the store domain and directs it to the catalog instructions before it starts writing code.

Build me a Hydrogen storefront using fragrance.mock.shop as the store domain. Setup instructions: fragrance.mock.shop/llms.txt

Shopify also provides a mock.shop starter project: a Hydrogen storefront with product pages, collection browsing, and a working cart already connected to mock.shop. You or your AI coding tool can customize this code instead of building those pieces from scratch.

Follow the repository’s setup instructions, then set PUBLIC_STORE_DOMAIN=fragrance.mock.shop in .env and restart the dev server to use Velvet Aura’s catalog. Leave PUBLIC_STOREFRONT_API_TOKEN empty; mock.shop doesn’t require a token.

Move to a real Shopify store

mock.shop uses fictional, read-only catalog data. Cart operations work, and checkout is mocked: no payment is taken and no real order is placed. The Customer Account API isn’t supported.

When you’re ready to launch, point your storefront at a Shopify store and add that store’s public Storefront API token. If you don’t have a Shopify store yet, start a Shopify free trial to create one.

Read the mock.shop developer documentation for setup and migration details.

Store facts