Comparison

ScentAdvice vs Perfume Picks

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Extensive fragrance database
  • Detailed perfume information
  • Discount coupon codes & deals
  • Over 1600 user reviews
  • Recommendation lists & articles
  • Fragrance dictionary & ingredients
Features
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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!

About

Perfume Picks

Discover affordable alternatives to designer and niche fragrances, and build a personalized scent collection. Train your nose by rating perfumes and track your existing collection. Scan bottles to identify them and add them to your wardrobe.

Highlights
  • Find affordable fragrance dupes
  • Discover scents by brand, accord, and notes
  • Train your nose with swipe-based learning
  • Build and track your scent wardrobe
  • Scan bottles to identify fragrances
  • Get layering suggestions with Pro
Features
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Perfume Picks reads your taste into a Fragrance DNA. Then it hands you a scent to wear each day from the bottles you already own, and finds cheaper bottles that smell nearly the same. YOUR FRAGRANCE DNA Tap the scents you love and we read your palate into an archetype: The Seducer, The Connoisseur, The Purist, and more. It's your taste with a name on it, and it keeps sharpening every time you wear, swipe, or add a bottle. SCENT OF THE DAY Open the app to a scent chosen from your own wardrobe, matched to your DNA and the day, with a line on why it fits. Turn on the morning reminder and it arrives at 8am. CHEAPER BOTTLES THAT SMELL THE SAME Love a $300 bottle? We find dupes matched on accords, ranked by how close they smell and how much you'd save. Usually 30 to 70 percent less. YOUR WHOLE COLLECTION Track every bottle you own, want, or have tried, with remaining mL, price, and when you last wore it. Log a wear in one tap and it captures the day and occasion. Backdate up to two years, and log layering combos too. SCAN A BOTTLE Point your camera at a bottle and we'll identify it and add it to your wardrobe. SHARE YOUR DNA Send friends your archetype and they can go find out theirs. YOUR YEAR IN SCENT Perfume Wrapped turns your wear history into a recap you can share: top houses, top families, the bottles you reached for most. WHO WEARS THIS See verified celebrity associations on the fragrances you're exploring. WHERE TO BUY When you're ready to buy, we point you to real retailers and may earn a commission. Perfume Picks is not a store and never sells you fragrance directly. FREE TO START Find your Fragrance DNA, build your wardrobe, log your wears, and get a daily pick. All free. PERFUME PICKS PRO Unlimited Train My Nose swipes and scans, an unlimited wardrobe, every dupe, layering suggestions, Perfume Wrapped, and your full taste profile. - $2.99/month, or $24.99/year with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage anytime in your App Store settings. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No ads. We don't sell or share your data. Your wardrobe stays yours. Built by a collector, for collectors. Terms: https://perfumepicks.app/terms Privacy: https://perfumepicks.app/privacy Questions? support@perfumepicks.app

Screenshots

ScentAdvice4 screens
Perfume Picks4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScentAdvice at 100% against Perfume Picks's 50%. ScentAdvice also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Perfume Picks's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Perfume Picks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ScentAdvice asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ScentAdvice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of ScentAdvice's written reviews are positive against 50% of Perfume Picks's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ScentAdvice ships an update every 6 months, Perfume Picks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
ScentAdvice versus Perfume Picks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScentAdvicePerfume Picks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB68 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBrian BakkerTimberline Ventures LLC

Customer experience

ScentAdvice

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Perfume Picks

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

None

ScentAdvice

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Perfume Picks

Subscriptions2
  • Perfume Picks Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Perfume Picks Pro7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is ScentAdvice free?
ScentAdvice is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Perfume Picks free?
Perfume Picks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, ScentAdvice or Perfume Picks?
ScentAdvice is rated higher. ScentAdvice averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Perfume Picks averages 4.0 from 4 ratings.
Do ScentAdvice or Perfume Picks have ads?
Neither ScentAdvice nor Perfume Picks shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ScentAdvice or Perfume Picks?
ScentAdvice ships an update every 6 months, and Perfume Picks every 3 days. Most recently, ScentAdvice was updated on October 16, 2026 and Perfume Picks on September 30, 2026.

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