Formulair vs Perfumers Vault 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Formulair
This app helps perfumers organize raw materials and create fragrance formulas. It allows detailed tracking of ingredients, dilutions, and costs, with tools for scaling and visualizing scent profiles. Export your creations in various formats for sharing or further analysis.
- Raw material organization with detailed cards
- Formula creation and management
- Customizable scaling engine
- Fragrance pyramid and category visualization
- Dilution tracking and management
- Formula export to PDF, Markdown, TSV
- Color-coding for raw materials
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Designed for apprentice and self-taught perfumers. As easy as using a pen and paper but allows you to make connections between raw materials and formulas which a traditional notebook can't provide. Keep your raw materials organised with collection of cards to store information. Keep track of basic information such as supplier, IFRA limits and cost per gram. Add dates for purchasing your stock and making dilutions to act as a reminder to when raw materials may have gone off. A table summarising concentration in formulas serves to quickly remind you which usage levels you found the most success with. Organise your formulas into custom categories and sketch out new ones with ease. Simply search your raw materials library and set a weight in grams up to 3 decimal places. Mark formula entries as too strong or weak. Change the dilution of a formula entry or swap out a raw material as you please. Formulair makes all of this quick and easy. Features: - A custom scaling engine helps you scale formulas up and down using a scaling factor, target weight or target concentration. - View a fragrance pyramid split into 5 levels of substantivity and a visual raw material category breakdown for each formula. - Keep track of different raw materials' dilutions and change dilutions in formulas using the existing solvent. - Includes a setting to scramble your raw material usage table, hiding sensitive formula information. - Your data is secured by apple in a private iCloud container. - Featuring a carefully designed colour palette, allowing you to assign colours to fully capture the essence your raw materials. - A rich interface supports light and dark mode. Even the raw materials colour palette adapts dynamically. - Raw material cards include a listing of every formula it's used in from strongest to weakest, showing any flags you set for too strong or weak. - Export formulas to pdf allowing you to print and share, markdown to open in note taking software, or tsv (tab-separated value) files, to load into spreadsheet software. Pricing: Formulair allows you to add up to 25 raw materials and up to 25 formulas for free. Once you try to go above this limit, you will be offered a one-time in-app-purchase to buy the full version, which allows you to create unlimited raw materials and formulas.
Perfumers Vault 2
Design, blend, and track fragrance formulas with an AI assistant. Manage materials, ensure IFRA compliance, and weigh batches. Ideal for perfumers, brands, and students.
- AI-powered formula generation and analysis
- IFRA compliance checking and reporting
- Material database management
- Batch weighing and tracking
- Formula scaling and comparison
- Import/export of formulas and materials
- Biometric security and data hiding
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Perfumers Vault 2 is a perfumer's workbench in your pocket. Build formulas, manage your materials, check IFRA compliance and weigh batches, with PV AI working alongside you. Made for artisan perfumers, indie fragrance brands, cosmetic formulators and students of perfumery, from a first blend to a commercial formula. PV AI, YOUR PERFUMERY ASSISTANT • Ask about your own formulas and materials: PV AI works with your vault, not just general knowledge • It looks things up, checks IFRA across all your formulas at once and can build or adjust a formula for you. Every change waits for your approval, and formula changes can be reverted • Answers appear as they're written, with tables and lists. Stop at any time • Describe a fragrance and get a complete formula, ready to save • Fill in a material's odour, regulatory and physical data in one tap • Photograph a bottle to identify the fragrance and get an inspired formula IFRA COMPLIANCE YOU CAN TRUST • Every formula checked against your IFRA library, with compliance certificates and reports as PDF • New IFRA amendments one tap away: the app tells you when one is published and updates your library • Missing data is flagged as "not assessed", never shown as compliant • Scientific view with CAS numbers, molecular data and IFRA limits on every row • Full material data: regulatory, physical and PubChem data, and SDS documents FROM FORMULA TO BOTTLE • Weigh formulas step by step, track batches and pick up where you left off • Scale any formula to any batch size and compare formulas side by side • Formula insights: analysis, notes impact, performance, cost, replacements and revision history • Several suppliers per material, stock levels and low-stock alerts • Build orders from what is running low and follow them to delivery • Dashboards for your formulas, materials, suppliers and orders SHARE, IMPORT AND PROTECT • Import formulas and materials from files or photos; export PDF, JSON and CSV • Share formulas privately with other Perfumers Vault users, or by QR code • Browse the materials catalogue and copy any material into your own • Biometric lock for sensitive pages, and hide quantities on your formulas • Unlimited iCloud backups FREE TO START • Create and manage formulas, your materials database and categories • Your vault lives on your device and works offline • iCloud backups (the last three) • Home Screen and Control Center shortcuts • Designed for iPhone and the full iPad screen • English, French, German, Portuguese, Turkish and Hindi PERFUMERS VAULT PRO Pro unlocks everything above: PV AI, IFRA compliance, making and batches, suppliers and orders, insights, sharing, unlimited backups and the Atelier and Mist themes. GOOD TO KNOW PV AI needs an internet connection and a signed-in account. Letting PV AI see your vault is your choice and can be switched off at any time. AI can make mistakes: always check a formula and its compliance before you use it. Pro is offered as a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://pv2.m24media.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://pv2.m24media.com/privacy --- Subscription auto-renews unless cancelled and will be charged via your Apple ID account. Cancel anytime in Settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Prices vary by location. --- Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Formulair at 4.8 against Perfumers Vault 2's 2.0. Formulair also leads on ratings volume (199 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Perfumers Vault 2's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Formulair sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Perfumers Vault 2 sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Formulair holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Formulair has 199 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Formulair ships an update every 3 weeks, Perfumers Vault 2 weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Formulair | Perfumers Vault 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (199 ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 86.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 199 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 133 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lux & Terra Ltd. | M24 Media Ltd |
Customer experience
Formulair
Perfumers Vault 2
Bugs and requests
Formulair
Reported bugs
5 issues- App does not open
- Forgets license after purchase
- Crashing when deleting material categories or materials
- Syncing issues between laptop and iPad
- Cannot remove imported materials all at once
Requested features
24 requests- Group formula raw materials by Top, Core, Base
- Group product printing by Top, Core, Base
- Allow sub-categories for formula grouping
- Formula batch log for tracking batches and inventory
- Copy images into notes fields
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- General notes section not tied to material/formula
- Incorporate/calculate accords in formulas
- More color variations for app/categories
- Image option to capture raw material appearance
- Spanish version of the app
- Additional fields like 'Manufacturer' or 'Country of Origin'
- Option to add custom fields
- Accord library option integrated into formulas
- Extensive CSV library of raw materials for full version
- Block information of raw materials
- Export/import Excel data
- Allow including created fragrances in new formulations
- Edit printed items
- Filter by FEMA
- Ability to use on Windows computer
- Pairing and correlation between raw materials
- Save formulas for accords into other formulas
- Add an ingredient that is treated as a base with its own formula
- Make adding infusions and tinctures more convenient
Perfumers Vault 2
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Formulair
- Full Version$39.99
Perfumers Vault 2
- Monthly$6.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$59.991 Year
Questions
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Is Perfumers Vault 2 free?
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