scentateca / scent map

The scent map

4,680 fragrances, placed by what people smell.

Fragrances people describe in the same words sit close together.

Scan

Point at a bottle. Land on its spot.

Scan a barcode or a label in a shop and fly straight to where it sits on the map.

Scanned: Sauvage · Dior · fresh · pepper · ambroxan

Try Scan →

Notes and perfumers

Pick a note. Watch it light up.

Every fragrance wearers describe as vanilla, across the whole map. Then one perfumer's work.

Wearers call it vanilla

For example Eros · Versace

Made by Francis Kurkdjian

For example Baccarat Rouge 540 · Maison Francis Kurkdjian

Browse notes → · Browse perfumers →

A close alternative

A long flight to a close match.

Blonde Amber · Clive Christian

Community match

75%

Art Of Arabia III · Lattafa Perfumes

“I have a decant of Blonde Amber and own Art of Arabia 3, I found it pretty close and some of my colleagues actually preferred it”
From the community

All dupes →

Compare

Side by side, word for word.

What wearers say they share, and what only one of them has.

Shared

citrus · fresh · floral

Only one has

Compare them →

Box versus skin

What it really smells like.

Tobacco Vanille: the notes on the box, and the words wearers add.

Tobacco Vanille

On the box

vanilla · tobacco leaf · ginger · tonka bean

Barely mentioned

cocoa · spice notes · fruit accord

Wearers add

warm · clove · dried fruits · raisins · spices

Your shelf

See where your taste sits.

Add the bottles you love and they join up on the map, like this example shelf.

A shelf like this one

This shelf leans

sweet · woody · vanilla

Start your shelf →

Create

Sketch a scent. Grow it into a formula.

Pick the words you want it to smell of and see where it would sit, and what it sits beside.

Sketch

rose + oud + saffron

Sits beside

Start a sketch →

Community

Ask the people who wear it.

Questions, reviews and creations, each tied to a fragrance on the map.

Ask about any fragrance, like Aventus.

Visit the community →

Your turn

Find where yours sits.

Wearers' own words, close alternatives, the map, and your own shelf. No ads.