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Perfume matcher

Pick a fragrance you like and see which others are built from the same materials. The matcher ranks 1,623 note lists from 45 houses by what they share with yours. Every list comes from the product page of the house that makes the fragrance.

Creed

Aventus

Top
Calabrian Bergamot, Sicilian Lemon, Blackcurrant Leaf Accord
Heart
Pineapple Accord, Pink Pepper, Jasmine Accord
Base
Birch, Patchouli, Musk Accord

As listed on creedboutique.comOpen in Sentia

The 12 note lists closest to Aventus:

How it matches

Shared materials, with rare ones counting more

Each fragrance becomes the set of materials its house lists. A note counts for a material when it names it as a whole word, so “Calabrian Bergamot” counts as bergamot and “Rosewood” does not count as rose. The matcher knows 361 materials: every one that at least five fragrances list.

Sharing a rare material says more than sharing a common one. Musk appears in 622 of the 1,623 lists, so two fragrances that both name it have little in common for that reason alone. Each material is weighted by how few lists name it, and the percentage is the weight the two lists share out of everything either one names. Two fragrances need at least two shared materials to be matched at all.

1,618 of the 1,623 lists name two or more materials the matcher knows; the typical list names 9.

Three starting points

What the closest list from another house looks like

  • Xerjoff Naxos is closest to Oakcha Granite Sky at 85%. Both list Tobacco Leaf, Honey, Cashmere, Cinnamon, Lavender, Tonka Bean, Lemon, Jasmine, Bergamot, Vanilla.

    See all matches for Naxos

  • Parfums de Marly Delina is closest to Oakcha Madame Rose at 28%. Both list Rhubarb, Nutmeg, Vetiver, Rose, Bergamot, Musk.

    See all matches for Delina

  • Initio Parfums Privés Side Effect is closest to Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb at 29%. Both list Tobacco, Cinnamon.

    See all matches for Side Effect

Often the closest list is a sibling from the same house: a flanker, a stronger concentration, a reissue. The matcher shows those too, because they are genuinely the nearest lists.

It compares what houses print, not what you smell

A note list is the house’s description of a smell, not its formula. Concentration, the materials nobody lists and the perfumer’s balance are all invisible here. Two fragrances at 60% can smell far apart on skin, and two at 20% can be close.

Read a match as a reason to try something, then trust your nose. To search the other way round, by notes you want, use the perfume finder by notes.

Try one, then see if you keep reaching for it

A match is a guess until you have worn it. Put the bottles you own on a Sentia shelf and log what you wear; in a month the log shows which of them you really pick up.

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Questions

Still wondering

Is a perfume matcher the same as a dupe finder?
No. This matcher compares the note lists houses publish. Two fragrances can share most of their listed notes and still smell different, and a true dupe can list different words. Use a match as a shortlist to try, not as a verdict.
How is the match percentage worked out?
Each fragrance is read as the set of materials its house lists. The materials both lists share are weighted by how rare they are, and that weight is divided by the weight of every material either list names. Two identical lists would score 100%.
Why can't I find my fragrance?
A fragrance can be matched only if its maker prints a note list and we have read it: 1,623 so far, from 45 houses. A house that prints no notes leaves us nothing to compare.

Notes, explained