Find your fragrance archetype in thirty seconds.
One photo, three swipe questions, and a scent identity that actually fits. Not a horoscope, not a personality cliché. Picked by an AI that reads aesthetic vibe, then validated by a five-axis fragrance vector.
Free on the App Store. iPhone, iOS 17.0 or later.
What a scent identity quiz really is
A scent identity quiz translates the visible signals of how you present, such as colour palette, contrast, softness or sharpness, warmth or coolness, into a fragrance category that flatters and reinforces those signals. Perfumers have done this for centuries by hand. We do it in thirty seconds with a vision model trained to read aesthetic mood, plus a deterministic combiner that listens to what you tell it about your day.
The result is not a guess. It is an aesthetic interpretation, expressed as a five-axis vector across warm, fresh, woody, sweet, and bold, and then matched to twenty hand-authored archetypes. Each archetype carries its own quote, its own colour palette, and its own pool of fragrance candidates. Your three picks are the closest matches by vector distance.
How accurate is it?
Two friends with similar aesthetics will land in the same archetype family. Velvet Night Icon and Dark Vanilla Rebel are neighbours, not strangers. But two friends with different lighting, makeup, or wardrobe on the day of the quiz will read differently, and that is exactly the point. A scent that matches "you on a Tuesday" is more useful than a scent that pretends there is one fixed you.
There is no accuracy score to quote, and we will not invent one. Noseprint is an aesthetic interpretation, not a measurement. The honest test is whether the archetype and its three bottles feel like you when you read them back, and whether the samples hold up on your skin.
Why three questions, not thirty
A long quiz feels rigorous but produces noise. Each extra question adds a chance for the user to overthink, second-guess, or pick a defensive answer. We pinned the quiz to three forced choices, night vs everyday, warm vs fresh, subtle vs bold, because those three carry most of the variance in how a fragrance reads on skin. The combiner weights your answers at 0.3 against the vision read at 0.7. That ratio is deliberate: your selfie carries information your conscious answers cannot.
After the quiz: what to do with your archetype
Treat the three recommendations as a sampling list. Walk into a Notino, Sephora, or Douglas counter with the names, ask for samples or wear-test cards, and let your skin chemistry decide the final pick from the three. The archetype is the right neighbourhood; your skin is the final judge of which house on that street.
Save your share card. It encodes your trait composition, your fragrance picks, and one line from the archetype quote pool. Two friends with the same archetype see different cards because the quote rotates, a quiet form of personalisation that survives screenshotting.
FAQ
How does a scent identity quiz work?+
A scent identity quiz combines visible style cues, since your selfie reads as a colour and texture palette to a vision model, with your stated preferences from a few short questions. Together those signals point to one of twenty hand-authored archetypes, each tied to a five-axis scent vector (warm, fresh, woody, sweet, bold) that maps to real fragrance categories.
How much does the quiz cost?+
Nothing to start. The Noseprint iPhone app is a free download, and a scent reading gives you your archetype, the five-axis trait breakdown, and three matched fragrances. An optional subscription adds unlimited reads, the full archetype reveal, and your scent radar; the annual plan carries a three-day free trial and the exact price is shown in the app at the point of purchase.
Do you store my photo?+
No. Your selfie is sent once to our AI provider, processed in memory to extract aesthetic signals, and then discarded. We do not write the image to disk, to our database, or to any third-party storage. Read more in our Privacy page.
What if I do not like the result?+
Take it again tomorrow with a different photo, lighting, or mood. The system is designed to read aesthetic vibe rather than fixed identity, so a softer photo on a different day can produce a meaningfully different archetype.
Can I use the quiz to pick a gift?+
Many people do. Run it on a photo you have permission to use, share the result card with your giftee, and let them choose from the recommended bottles. The picks span designer and niche houses, so there is usually something at more than one price level.
Three swipes is all it takes. What’s your archetype?
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