Notes and perfumers
Many bottles on ScentSell show their notes — the ingredients you smell, such as jasmine, bergamot or vanilla — and the perfumer who made the fragrance. You can tap any of them to learn more and to find other bottles for sale with the same note or by the same perfumer.
What you'll learn
- How to open a note or a perfumer
- What the note and perfumer pages show
- What it means when a note says "we're still adding this one"
- How to tell us when something looks wrong
Opening a note
Tap a note wherever you see one:
- on a listing, in the Notes pyramid
- on a bottle card in the marketplace, swaps or your cabinet (the small notes under the bottle name)
- on a bottle page in your cabinet
- in Help me write this when you list a bottle
A panel opens with a watercolour painting of the note (when we have one), a short description, and how many bottles are for sale with it right now. Tap See bottles for sale with … to open the note's page.
On a phone the panel slides up from the bottom of the screen. Tap the cross or tap outside it to close it. On a computer it opens in the middle of the screen; press Esc to close it.
If you open a note while listing a bottle, the note's page opens in a new tab so you don't lose what you've typed.
Gift sets and miniature collections
When a listing is a set of several perfumes, such as a box of miniatures, its page shows In this set, with the notes of each perfume the seller names. A perfume we can't match with certainty is named underneath without notes, rather than shown with the wrong ones. Body mists and hair mists don't show a perfume's notes, because a mist isn't the same as the perfume.
Opening a perfumer
Where a listing names the perfumer (for example "Perfumer: Alberto Morillas"), tap the name. The panel shows how many of their fragrances are for sale on ScentSell now, with a link to the perfumer's page.
The note and perfumer pages
Each note has its own page, for example scentsell.com.au/notes/jasmine, with the painting, the description and every bottle currently for sale that carries the note. Each perfumer has a page too, for example scentsell.com.au/perfumers/alberto-morillas, listing the bottles by them that are for sale now, under the heading "Perfumes by (name), for sale". If we don't have a story for a perfumer yet, the page says so, and we let our fragrance data team know.
Tap any bottle to open its listing, then buy, make an offer or propose a swap as usual.
Where notes come from
Notes, perfumers, the year and the scent family come from Sniffopotamus, our fragrance database partner, and are read fresh each time. When Sniffopotamus corrects something, the listing shows the correction within minutes. If Sniffopotamus doesn't have a fragrance yet, the listing, its share card and your cabinet say "This perfume is not in our fragrance catalogue yet" rather than showing a guess, and we ask Sniffopotamus to add it. The bottle itself stays listed, with the seller's own description.
"We're still adding this one"
Notes and perfumer pages are new on ScentSell. Some notes don't have a painting or a description yet, and we don't have perfumer biographies yet. Where something is missing you'll see a short line saying we're still adding it, rather than an empty space. We keep track of which ones people open so we can add the most-wanted first.
If nothing with a note is for sale right now, the page says so and offers a marketplace search for it instead.
Something wrong?
Every panel has a Something wrong with this note? (or this perfumer?) link. Tap it, tell us what looks wrong if you like — for example "this painting shows a different flower" — and tap Send report. You don't need to be signed in.
We read every report. Corrections to note or perfumer details go to our fragrance database team; problems with how a page looks come straight to us.