Scento Perfume Database 2026-10-29: 34 more perfumes (1,479 perfumes, 160 houses, 420 materials)
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| pretty_name: "Perfume Notes Database: perfumes, fragrance ingredients and notes (Scento)" | |
| language: | |
| - en | |
| size_categories: | |
| - 1K<n<10K | |
| task_categories: | |
| - tabular-classification | |
| - text-retrieval | |
| tags: | |
| - perfume | |
| - fragrance | |
| - fragrance-notes | |
| - perfume-notes | |
| - fragrance-ingredients | |
| - perfume-database | |
| - aroma-chemicals | |
| - essential-oils | |
| - perfumery | |
| - knowledge-base | |
| - csv | |
| - jsonl | |
| # Perfume Notes Database: perfumes, fragrance ingredients and notes (Scento) | |
| Perfume notes and fragrance ingredients database: top, heart and base notes for 1,500+ perfumes, 160+ houses and 450+ raw materials, traced to house pages and authorized retailers. Browse it at https://www.scento.com/perfume-database or query the free API at https://www.scento.com/developers/perfume-api. | |
| Scento's verified perfume database as an open dataset: perfumes, the houses that make them and the raw materials (notes) they are built from, with fragrance family, character, season, time of day and the note pyramid where one exists. | |
| It is the same data that powers the free Scento Perfume API and its MCP server. | |
| - Live API and docs: https://www.scento.com/developers | |
| - Browse the database: https://www.scento.com/perfume-database | |
| - Publisher: Scento, https://www.scento.com | |
| ## Files | |
| | File | Rows | Contents | | |
| |---|---|---| | |
| | `perfumes.csv` / `perfumes.jsonl` | 1,479 | One row per perfume. The JSONL file has the same rows with list fields as arrays. | | |
| | `houses.csv` | 160 | Perfume houses with country, founding year and a one-line portrait. | | |
| | `materials.csv` | 420 | Raw materials, accords and notes with aliases, material family, origin and smell description. | | |
| | `datapackage.json` | | Frictionless Data descriptor for all tables. | | |
| The Scento Perfume API covers 1,500+ perfumes, 160+ houses and 450+ raw materials; this snapshot (27 October 2026) exports every entry that has a public page on scento.com. | |
| ## Fields | |
| `perfumes`: `id`, `name`, `house_id`, `house`, `year`, `perfumers`, `concentration`, `family`, `secondary_family`, `character`, `seasons`, `times_of_day`, `top_notes`, `heart_notes`, `base_notes`, `notes` (all notes, flat), `description`, `popularity_rank` (1 = best known), `url`. List-valued CSV fields are separated by `; `. Year, perfumers and the pyramid are filled only where verified; empty means not recorded. | |
| `houses`: `id`, `name`, `country`, `founded`, `type`, `portrait`, `perfume_count`, `url`. | |
| `materials`: `id`, `name`, `aliases`, `material_family`, `origin` (natural, synthetic, both or accord), `smell`, `url`. | |
| Every row has a `url` that points to the matching page on https://www.scento.com. | |
| ## Sources policy | |
| Facts are taken from the perfume houses' own pages and from authorized retailers, then checked before they enter the database. Descriptions are written by Scento. No third-party text is reproduced and no source texts are included. | |
| ## License and attribution | |
| Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| Attribute as: **Scento — https://www.scento.com/perfume-database** | |
| ## Citation | |
| Scento. Scento Perfume Database (2026-10-21). https://www.scento.com/perfume-database | |