Fragrantica Perfumers Scraper

Fragrantica Perfumers Scraper extracts perfumers (noses) from Fragrantica into clean, structured data you can download as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML. Paste a perfumer profile or the perfumer index, or just type a perfumer or company name, and get one row per perfumer with their company, job title, education, photo, perfume counts, active years, brands, most popular perfumes, and optionally the biography and the full perfume list. No account or login required.

Introduction

Fragrantica is the largest online perfume encyclopedia, with more than 140,000 perfumes and over 3,000 perfumers, from master perfumers at Givaudan, dsm-firmenich, and IFF to independent creators. Each perfumer profile shows who they work for, how many perfumes they have composed, and for which brands.

This actor turns those profiles into a ready-to-use dataset, one perfumer per row, so you can map the talent behind the perfume industry, find the noses behind a brand, or follow who creates the most popular fragrances. You can run it once, schedule it to run regularly, or connect it to your own tools.

What data can you extract from Fragrantica?

• 👤 Perfumer name, Fragrantica ID, photo, and a direct link to the profile
• 🏢 Company (for example Givaudan, dsm-firmenich, or IFF), other companies they worked for, and job title (Master Perfumer, Senior Perfumer, and more)
• 🎓 Education (for example ISIPCA or Givaudan Perfumery School)
• 🔢 Total number of perfumes and perfumes for women, men, and unisex
• 📅 Year of the first and the latest perfume
• 🏷️ Brands the perfumer created for, with the number of perfumes per brand
• ⭐ The 10 most popular perfumes: name, brand, year, gender, collection, rating, number of votes and reviews, image, and link
• 📝 Optional biography as plain text and the company website
• 🧴 Optional full perfume list with the same details as the popular perfumes

Use Cases

• 🕵️ Industry research: see which fragrance houses employ which perfumers and how productive they are.
• 🤝 Recruiting and lead generation: build a list of perfumers by company, with their titles and education.
• 📰 Journalism and content: find the noses behind famous perfumes and brands, with their biography.
• 📈 Market research: compare brands by the perfumers they work with, or follow new launches per perfumer.
• 🤖 AI and automation: feed clean, structured data into spreadsheets, dashboards, or AI workflows.

How to scrape Fragrantica perfumers step by step

1. Paste one or more Fragrantica URLs into Start URLs, or type perfumer or company names into Search perfumers.
2. Set Maximum number of perfumers to how many perfumers you want per URL or per search.
3. Turn on Include the full perfume list and Include biography and company website if you need them.
4. Click Start and wait for the run to finish.
5. Download your data in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Output tab.

Input

• Start URLs: Fragrantica pages to scrape. Supported pages:
  • A perfumer profile, for example https://www.fragrantica.com/noses/Alberto_Morillas.html
  • The perfumer index https://www.fragrantica.com/noses/, which returns every perfumer, most popular first
• Search perfumers: perfumer or company names to search on Fragrantica, one per line, for example Kurkdjian or Givaudan. Each search is scraped separately, best matches first.
• Maximum number of perfumers: how many perfumers to collect for each start URL or search. Set 0 to get every perfumer.
• Include the full perfume list: adds every perfume of the perfumer to each row. Off by default, because top perfumers have more than 500 perfumes. Counts, brands, and the 10 most popular perfumes are always included.
• Include biography and company website: opens each perfumer profile to add the biography and the company website. Off by default, because it makes runs slower. Profile pages need residential proxies, which is the default proxy setting.
• Proxy configuration: residential proxies are on by default and work for every option. Fragrantica blocks many IP addresses, so keep a proxy enabled. Without biographies, datacenter proxies also work.

You can use start URLs, perfumer searches, or both in the same run.

Input Examples

Scrape a perfumer profile and the most popular perfumers from the index:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.fragrantica.com/noses/Alberto_Morillas.html" },
    { "url": "https://www.fragrantica.com/noses/" }
  ],
  "maxResults": 5,
  "includePerfumes": false,
  "includeBiography": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Search the perfumers of a company:

{
  "searchQueries": ["Givaudan"],
  "maxResults": 5,
  "includePerfumes": false,
  "includeBiography": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Output

Each perfumer is saved as one item in the dataset. Here is an example of a single item with Include the full perfume list and Include biography and company website turned on (lists and text shortened):

{
  "url": "https://www.fragrantica.com/noses/Francis_Kurkdjian.html",
  "id": 39,
  "name": "Francis Kurkdjian",
  "jobTitle": null,
  "company": "Maison Francis Kurkdjian",
  "otherCompanies": ["Quest", "Takasago"],
  "education": "ISIPCA",
  "imageUrl": "https://fimgs.net/images/nosevi/o.39.jpg",
  "website": "https://www.franciskurkdjian.com/",
  "biography": "Francis Kurkdjian is a renowned perfumer known for his innovative and captivating creations. Born on May 14, 1969, near Paris, France, Kurkdjian grew up in a culturally rich environment...",
  "perfumeCount": 294,
  "womenPerfumeCount": 136,
  "menPerfumeCount": 58,
  "unisexPerfumeCount": 100,
  "firstPerfumeYear": 1995,
  "latestPerfumeYear": 2026,
  "brandCount": 47,
  "brands": [
    { "name": "Maison Francis Kurkdjian", "perfumeCount": 64 },
    { "name": "Dior", "perfumeCount": 52 },
    { "name": "Jean Paul Gaultier", "perfumeCount": 32 }
  ],
  "popularPerfumes": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Maison-Francis-Kurkdjian/Grand-Soir-40816.html",
      "id": 40816,
      "name": "Grand Soir",
      "brand": "Maison Francis Kurkdjian",
      "year": 2016,
      "gender": "unisex",
      "collection": null,
      "rating": 4.3,
      "ratingCount": 15059,
      "reviewCount": 1985,
      "imageUrl": "https://fimgs.net/mdimg/perfume/375x500.40816.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "perfumes": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Maison-Francis-Kurkdjian/Baccarat-Rouge-540-33519.html",
      "id": 33519,
      "name": "Baccarat Rouge 540",
      "brand": "Maison Francis Kurkdjian",
      "year": 2015,
      "gender": "unisex",
      "collection": "Baccarat Rouge 540",
      "rating": 3.75,
      "ratingCount": 29928,
      "reviewCount": 3998,
      "imageUrl": "https://fimgs.net/mdimg/perfume/375x500.33519.jpg"
    }
  ]
}

You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML, or access it through the Apify API.

Notes

• Only Fragrantica.com (English) perfumer profiles and the perfumer index are supported. Perfume pages, brand pages, and other URLs are skipped with a warning.
• A perfumer search returns at most 1,000 perfumers. The perfumer index has no such limit and covers every perfumer on Fragrantica (about 3,100).
• Searches match perfumer names and company names, so a search for a company returns the perfumers who work there, and the company itself when Fragrantica lists it as a perfumer.
• Perfumers listed under different spellings of the same URL are saved once.
• website and biography are only added when Include biography and company website is on, and perfumes only when Include the full perfume list is on.
• Some perfumers have no photo, job title, education, company, website, or biography on Fragrantica; those fields are null (or an empty list). A perfume without a known year has year: null.
• The number of reviews counts the English reviews shown on Fragrantica.com.
• Biographies come from perfumer profiles, which Fragrantica only shows to residential connections. Keep the default residential proxy when Include biography and company website is on; with other proxies the profiles fail.
• Works on Cloudflare-protected pages. Keep Apify Proxy enabled for stable runs.

Why use the Fragrantica Perfumers Scraper?

• 👃 One row per perfumer: perfumer profiles, not perfume rows, ready for industry maps and lead lists.
• 🔎 Many ways to start: a single profile, the full perfumer index, a perfumer name, or a company name.
• 🧹 Clean data: numbers are real numbers, links are full URLs, and the biography is plain text.
• 💸 Pay for what you need: set a limit per URL or search, and add the perfume list or the biography only when you need them.
• 🔄 Ready for automation: schedule runs, export to Google Sheets, or connect to Make, Zapier, and n8n.

FAQ

How many perfumers can I scrape?

Set any number in Maximum number of perfumers, or 0 for no limit. The perfumer index covers every perfumer on Fragrantica.

Do I need a Fragrantica account?

No. The actor only collects publicly available data. You do not need to log in or provide any account details.

Can I scrape data on a schedule?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run the actor every day, week, or month, and track new perfumes per perfumer.

Can I request a new feature or filter?

Yes. Right now the actor supports start URLs and perfumer or company searches. If you need other inputs, such as filtering perfumers by brand or by launch year, get in touch and they can be added.

Can I get a custom or private version?

Yes. The actor can be customized for your workflow, delivered as a private version, or a new scraper can be built for a different website. If you need the whole Fragrantica perfumer database in one go, a private or custom actor can deliver it. Use the contact details below.

Need to scrape other perfume data?

• Fragrantica Designers Scraper: perfume brands from Fragrantica, one row per brand with country, parent company, website, perfume counts, perfumers, and collections.
• Fragrantica Scraper: perfume details from Fragrantica, including the notes pyramid, accords, perfumers, ratings, and community votes.
• Fragrantica Reviews Scraper: perfume reviews from Fragrantica, one row per review with the reviewer's rating, longevity, sillage, and season votes.

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Need help or want a custom solution?

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Image Credit

Image credit: Fragrantica