Pick the notes you want at the top, heart and base. We find the fragrances that come closest.
First 15–30 minutes · Citrus, aromatics, bright spices
30 mins to 4 hours · Florals, fruits, teas, resins
4+ hours · Woods, vanilla, amber, oud, skin musks
Build a Scent is Noteboxd’s interactive olfactory workshop for designing your dream perfume pyramid and discovering real-world fragrances that match your custom formula. Instead of guessing perfume names, you compose a scent the way a master perfumer does—layer by layer.
Start with your Top Notes (the sparkling opening impression of citrus, herbs, and bright spices), build out the Heart Notes (the floral, aromatic, or fruity core that defines the fragrance’s personality), and anchor the composition with Base Notes (the deep woods, resins, vanillas, and musks that linger on skin for hours).
Add dominant accords, select your preferred concentration (EDT, EDP, or Extrait de Parfum), and exclude any notes you dislike. Noteboxd scores the encyclopedia by exact pyramid-position overlap and note prominence so you can see both 100% formula matches and the closest olfactory cousins.