TRI-COMA is the e-commerce storefront for a small-batch cologne line that leans into the "luxury, loud, legit" register — dark glassmorphism, heavy display type, product photography front-loaded above the fold, and a finite-stock model where every drop is genuinely small. The site is the brand's only retail channel.

What's actually wired up

• Laravel 12 monolith with PHP 8.3 on nginx + PHP-FPM — Blade templates for the storefront, eloquent models for products / variants / orders / carts, MySQL 8 underneath. No SPA, no API layer for the retail surface; the form-post-and-redirect rhythm is load-bearing for SEO and just feels right for a cologne-merchant page.
• Filament 3 admin for the back office — product CRUD, inventory, order fulfilment, customer view, content blocks. The whole "shop owner does everything from a single panel" surface lives here.
• Stripe Checkout Sessions for payment — no card data ever lands on the server. Stripe tokens and webhook secrets are encrypted at rest in the database; rotation flows through Filament with a re-encrypt sweep.
• Vite + vanilla CSS for the front end. No React, no Tailwind on the storefront — the glassmorphism look is hand-rolled CSS, layered backgrounds, and a small bundle of vanilla JS for the cart drawer + scroll behaviour.
• Small-batch product model — every fragrance has a finite stock count and a release window. Sold-out variants stay on the page (so the history is visible) but flip to a "notify me" CTA instead of an Add-to-Cart.

Why this stack

Filament collapses what would otherwise be three or four Laravel-Nova-style packages into one admin: products, inventory, order management, and CMS-style content blocks all share the same auth, the same theming, and the same permissioned table primitives. For a one-merchant brand site, that's a fast lane from "Stripe is connected" to "we can run a drop tomorrow."

The terpene angle

The product line itself is the differentiator — colognes blended with hemp- and cannabis-derived terpenes, which sit far enough outside the usual perfumery palette that the brand voice (loud, neon, unapologetic) follows naturally. The storefront leans into that with full-bleed photography, generous black space, and a typographic hierarchy that lets each fragrance carry its own page.