Find your fragrance archetype in thirty seconds.

What a scent identity quiz really is

A scent identity quiz translates the visible signals of how you present — 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 — warm, fresh, woody, sweet, 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.

We measure accuracy by share rate. Roughly fifteen percent of users post the resulting card publicly, which is the strongest signal we have that the result feels true enough to put a name on it.

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 a quote that is only assigned to about five percent of users. Two friends with the same archetype see different cards because the quote pool rotates — a quiet form of personalisation that survives screenshotting.

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