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What is MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT connect directly to external services — like your ScentSell account. With ScentSell's MCP server, your AI assistant can read your collection, log wears, curate shelves, generate share cards, and query the 75,000-fragrance oracle on your behalf.

62 tools live. Anything you can do in the web app you can now do by talking to Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible client.

ScentSell's MCP server is a world-first — the first fragrance-specific MCP server anywhere. No equivalent exists at Fragrantica, Parfumo, or Basenotes.

Under the hood: SniffBot (our AI oracle) is a ReAct-loop GPT-4o agent with 28 specialised tools, rate-limited at 50 queries/day and grounded in a 149-chunk pgvector knowledge base that learns from your thumbs-up / thumbs-down feedback.

What you'll learn​

  • What MCP is, in plain English
  • Why it's useful for fragrance enthusiasts
  • What's required to use it

Plain-English explanation​

Without MCP, if you want to log a wear, you open the ScentSell app, find the fragrance, and tap a few buttons.

With MCP, you just say to your AI assistant:

"I wore Aventus today, 4 sprays, work occasion, hot day"

And your AI — whether that's Claude in Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, or another compatible tool — calls ScentSell's MCP server and logs the wear automatically. No app-switching. No tapping around.

Why fragrance enthusiasts love it​

  1. Voice logging while getting ready — Describe your wear out loud while you're in front of the mirror. Your AI handles the rest.
  2. Natural language queries — Ask "what have I worn most in the last month?" and get a real answer from your data.
  3. Notes on the go — "Add a note to today's Aventus wear: the sillage was incredible in the heat"
  4. Conversation-based discovery — "I'm going to a formal dinner tonight, what's in my collection that fits?"

Requirements​

  • ScentSell Premium subscription — MCP access is a Premium feature.
  • An MCP-compatible AI client — Claude Desktop, ChatGPT (custom GPT or native), Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, and many others.

MCP server URL​

https://mcp.scentsell.com.au/api/mcp

This is the endpoint you'll add to your AI client's configuration.

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