# Scento Perfume API - Free Perfume Notes Database (`scento/scento-perfume-compendium`) Actor

Free Scento Perfume API for fragrance notes, perfume portraits, raw materials and houses, from Scento's verified perfume database. 1,400+ perfumes, 400+ raw materials, no key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scento/scento-perfume-compendium.md
- **Developed by:** [Scento Team](https://apify.com/scento) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, E-commerce, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Scento Perfume API

Ask **Scento Perfume API**, built on Scento's verified perfume database, from Apify. Search 1,400+ designer and niche perfumes, draw a perfume's portrait with its top, heart and base notes, set two scents side by side, look up 400+ raw materials and 140+ houses, or compose a small fragrance wardrobe. Every answer carries a citable page on [scento.com](https://www.scento.com). No API key, no account on our side.

Scento is Europe's largest perfume decant website, founded in Paris in 2024. Scento Perfume API is how we share what we know about fragrance notes with people and their assistants.

### What you get

Each run returns dataset rows. A search returns one row per match (kind, name, house, family and the scento.com page). Every other tool returns one row holding the full answer: a quotable lede, a detail object, the page to read on, further reading and a cite line. The complete answer is also stored under the `OUTPUT` key.

### Input

Quick search:

```json
{ "query": "oud" }
```

Any of the twelve tools:

```json
{ "tool": "perfume-portrait", "arguments": { "perfume": "Delina" } }
```

```json
{ "tool": "perfume-contrast", "arguments": { "perfumes": ["Eau Sauvage", "Oud Wood"] } }
```

| Tool | What it answers |
|---|---|
| `perfume-search` | Search perfumes, materials and houses |
| `perfume-portrait` | Family, note pyramid, character and when it wears best |
| `scent-neighbours` | Perfumes that share a structure with one you name |
| `perfume-contrast` | Two or three perfumes side by side |
| `note-portrait` | A raw material: smell, origin, pairings |
| `material-match` | Perfumes built on the materials you list |
| `house-portrait` | A perfume house and its signatures |
| `family-map` / `occasion-edit` / `wardrobe-composer` | Scento's family system, an edit for an occasion, a small wardrobe |
| `perfumery-lexicon` / `journal-search` | A perfumery term, or the Scento journal |

Argument names for every tool are listed in the [developer docs](https://www.scento.com/developers#tools).

### Use it from an AI assistant

Any public Actor can be called by MCP clients through Apify's MCP server at https://mcp.apify.com. Add `scento/scento-perfume-compendium` to its tools and your assistant can look up perfumes and notes mid-conversation. For a direct connection with all twelve tools and no run costs, use Scento's own MCP server below.

### Other ways in

- REST API: `https://www.scento.com/api/perfume/v1` (OpenAPI 3.1: https://www.scento.com/api/perfume/v1/openapi.json)
- MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code: `https://www.scento.com/mcp`
- Developer docs: https://www.scento.com/developers/perfume-api (REST) and https://www.scento.com/developers/perfume-mcp-server (MCP)
- Source: https://github.com/Scento-com/perfume-mcp-server

Please keep requests polite: this is a free service run by a small team.

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

A perfume, house, note or raw material to search for, for example oud or Tom Ford.

## `tool` (type: `string`):

Optional. One of the twelve Scento Perfume API tools. When set, it replaces the search query.

## `arguments` (type: `object`):

Arguments for the chosen tool, for example {"perfume": "Delina"} or {"perfumes": \["Eau Sauvage", "Oud Wood"]}.

## `kind` (type: `string`):

Narrow a plain search to one kind of entry.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

How many search results to return.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "oud",
  "arguments": {},
  "kind": "any",
  "limit": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `answers` (type: `string`):

No description

## `folio` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "oud",
    "arguments": {}
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scento/scento-perfume-compendium").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "oud",
    "arguments": {},
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scento/scento-perfume-compendium").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "oud",
  "arguments": {}
}' |
apify call scento/scento-perfume-compendium --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scento/scento-perfume-compendium"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/d9YhGx1BUpBbTkJFk/builds/RxtihyL3xpSGptliy/openapi.json