We’re Not Another Fragrance Encyclopedia

No hidden AI black box, no star ratings, no popularity contest. You pick the notes you want and the notes you don’t. Any perfume that contains a note you want to avoid is left out. Every other perfume that contains at least one of your notes gets a match score, built from four things:

• Coverage. How many of your notes the perfume contains. All of them counts most; two out of three still scores well, just lower. Picking “Vanilla” also covers its variants, like Madagascar or Bourbon vanilla.
• Prominence. Where your note sits in the scent. Heart and base notes, which last for hours, count more than a top note that fades in the first fifteen minutes — and a note listed first counts more than one listed last.
• Focus. How much of the perfume belongs to the same scent families as your picks. A fragrance built around warm, sweet notes beats a fifteen-note composition where vanilla is just one ingredient among many.
• Name. A small bonus when your note is in the perfume’s name — Vanille, Rosa, Santal — because that usually means the scent is built around it.

For example, pick Vanilla and Un Bois Vanille scores 100%, while Chanel N°5, where vanilla is one of many base notes, scores 69%.

100% means your notes are the core of that fragrance. A lower score doesn’t mean a worse perfume — only that your notes play a smaller part in it. Every result tells you which of your notes it matches, where they sit in the pyramid, and which ones it’s missing.

You Might Also Like. Each perfume page suggests four fragrances with a similar overall scent. Rare, defining notes (like lychee or rhubarb) count far more than everyday ones (like musk or bergamot), and we compare the balance of scent families too — so a rosy floral is matched with other rosy florals, not with anything that happens to share bergamot.