Find the perfume that suits you.
A scent diagnosis, not a quiz: 12 to 19 questions that adapt to your level — we talk about concrete smells to the curious, about materials to enthusiasts. In the end: your full profile, what you love and what you avoid, then real perfumes from the catalogue, each with the reason it’s there.
What is a scent diagnosis?
A scent diagnosis tries to describe what you like to smell, then to deduce perfumes that match it. It is an exercise in reading tastes, not a personality test: no question is about your character, your favourite colour or your birth month. We talk about materials — a zest of citrus, a resin, a smoky wood — and about concrete situations: the office, a dinner, a month of August.
The distinction decides what you can do with the result. A personality test produces a portrait, which you can neither check nor argue with. A scent diagnosis produces families and materials, which you can set against the real composition of a perfume. That comparison is what lets us explain each suggestion instead of just asserting it.
How this diagnosis works
12 to 19 questions, whose vocabulary adjusts to what you say you know. 3 to 6 of them are duels — two propositions, you decide — because a forced choice separates tastes better than a scale from 1 to 5, where everyone answers “somewhat agree”.
When one family dominates your answers, the duels dig inside it instead of moving on: the clean of laundry or the clean of skin after a shower, a frankly sweet gourmand or a gourmand with no sugar. That is what tells apart two people who both like “fresh” — and what decides how many duels you get.
If a perfume has already pleased you — your own, a loved one’s, a memory — you can name it: the engine reads its composition and uses it as a landmark, then never recommends it to you a second time. It is optional, and it is a very valuable clue for the diagnosis.
Your answers form a profile on two levels. The accords give the coarse grain: woody, floral, amber, aromatic. The materials give the fine grain, weighted by how rare they are in the catalogue — a white musk found everywhere distinguishes almost nothing, an oud a great deal. Without this second level, two amber woods are indistinguishable and recommendations become interchangeable.
The order in which the rules apply
- What you avoid rules out. A material or a family you reject sets the perfume aside, whatever its score otherwise. Budget and section work the same way: they are conditions, not preferences.
- What you like ranks. Scent affinity, context of use, season, wanted presence — these criteria are weighed against one another instead of excluding each other.
- The selection is then diversified. Without this last step, it would offer five variations of the same perfume: technically right, useless in practice.
Your profile is compared with the composition of 1,980 perfumes from 327 houses, described by 446 materials. Figures taken from the catalogue at the moment you read this page.
What you get at the end
A scent profile: your dominant families, the materials that keep coming back in your answers, the ones you set aside. Then a selection of real perfumes, each with the reason it is there — what it shares with your profile, what sets it apart from the others. From each suggestion, the full page is one click away: pyramid, accords, neighbouring perfumes.
Free, with no account or email address. If nothing convinces you, the catalogue and the guides are another way in — sometimes a safer one when you are looking for a gift.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the diagnosis free?
- Yes. No account, no email address, no payment: the diagnosis is open and stays that way.
- How long does it take?
- 12 to 19 questions depending on your answers, about two minutes. You can go back at any time to correct an answer.
- Do I need to know about perfume?
- No, and that's what the first question is for: the vocabulary adjusts. For the curious, we talk about familiar smells; for those who already know their way around, about materials and concentrations.
- Where do the suggested perfumes come from?
- From the composition of the catalogue's perfume pages — pyramid and accords. Popularity only plays a supporting role, and only for a first perfume or a gift: a best-seller is not necessarily yours.
- Are my answers kept?
- They are stored anonymously, to measure the diagnosis and improve it. No account, no email address, no personal data.
- Can I take the diagnosis again?
- As many times as you like. Tastes change, and answering differently gives a different reading — that's the idea.