Wikiparfum vs ScentAdvice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wikiparfum
Discover your next signature scent with a vast perfume catalog and personalized recommendations. Explore ingredients, perfumers, and expert articles to deepen your understanding of fragrances. Join a community of perfume enthusiasts.
- Extensive perfume catalog (18,000+)
- Personalized recommendation system
- Detailed ingredient and perfumer catalog
- Olfactory profile creation
- Blog articles on perfumery
- Latest fragrance launches
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Are you a perfume lover? Then Wikiparfum is the place for you. More than 18,000 perfumes. Personalised recommendation system. Detailed catalogue of ingredients and perfumers. The perfume industry is constantly growing and with so many perfumes on offer, it can be hard to know where to start when choosing one. That is where we come in to help you discover a fragrance that is suited to you and works for any occasion. We bring the art of perfumery to you. At Wikiparfum you can reate your olfactory profile and receive personalized recommendations. Explore our detailed catalogue of ingredients and learn all about them. Discover the latest launches that best suit your tastes. We also share all of our expertise with you in our blog articles, introduce you to the best noses on the perfume scene and "wrap it all up" in the scent of a new design. Explore Wikiparfum and become a part of this great perfumery community.
ScentAdvice
Explore a vast database of perfumes from designer and niche brands, featuring detailed information on notes, perfumers, and release years. Find discount codes, read over 1600 user reviews, and discover curated recommendation lists and articles.
- Extensive fragrance database
- Detailed perfume information
- Discount coupon codes & deals
- Over 1600 user reviews
- Recommendation lists & articles
- Fragrance dictionary & ingredients
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Discover the latest and upcoming fragrance releases here first! ScentAdvice has an extensive fragrance database with perfumes listed from designer and niche brands. Learn all about a fragrance (notes, perfumer, release year and more). You can find many discount coupon codes & the best deals! Enjoy reading over 1600 reviews written by ScentAdvice (a.k.a. @BrainFragrances) and share your own opinions in the comments. There's a page with recommendation lists, articles, perfume related books, a fragrance dictionary, ingredients and more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScentAdvice at 100% against Wikiparfum's 0%. ScentAdvice also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and ads (none vs shown). Wikiparfum's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScentAdvice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wikiparfum has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Wikiparfum's written reviews are positive against 100% of ScentAdvice's.
Wikiparfum ships an update monthly, ScentAdvice every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wikiparfum | ScentAdvice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Airparfum Timeless Sociedad Limitada | Brian Bakker |
Customer experience
Wikiparfum
ScentAdvice
In-app purchases
Wikiparfum
No in-app purchases
ScentAdvice
No in-app purchases
