ScentAdvice vs Perfumedia
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Perfumedia
Track your perfume collection, discover new scents, and get personalized recommendations. Log your daily wear, analyze your scent preferences, and compare prices from various retailers. Connect with a community of fragrance enthusiasts.
- Fragrance collection tracking
- Daily wear logging
- Scent personality analysis
- Price comparison across retailers
- New release discovery
- Community features
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Perfumedia is the collection tracker for people who actually wear their perfume. YOUR COLLECTION, FREE AT ANY SIZE Add every bottle you own. There is no limit on the free plan, whether you have ten or five hundred. Search a catalogue of 50,000+ fragrances from designer, niche and Middle Eastern houses, or point the camera at a bottle and it is identified and on your shelf in seconds. KNOW WHAT TO WEAR Log what you wore each day, keep a streak, and see your most and least worn bottles, cost per wear and what you reach for by season. A daily pick suggests one bottle from your own shelf, tuned to the weather and your taste, and shows its reasoning. YOUR SCENT PERSONALITY A short quiz builds your Scent DNA: the notes, families and moods you gravitate to. It reveals your scent personality, matches perfumes to your profile, and gets sharper with every bottle you add and rate. EVERY PRICE, ALWAYS FREE Every fragrance page compares prices across trusted retailers so you always know where a bottle is cheapest. Price comparison and buying are free for everyone, forever. DISCOVER New releases with full notes the week they launch. Reviews and ratings from real wearers. Ask a question about any perfume and get an answer grounded in the catalogue. COMMUNITY Follow friends, see what they are wearing, share your shelf and compare collections. Post reviews, vote on notes and comment. PREMIUM Perfumedia is free to use. Premium adds price-drop alerts and price history on your wishlist, unlimited bottle scanning, unlimited Ask, an unlimited wishlist, your personality's signature scents, community posting and collection export. Have a promo code? Redeem it on the Premium screen. Subscriptions are billed to your Apple ID and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://perfumediapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://perfumediapp.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScentAdvice at 100% against Perfumedia's 33%. ScentAdvice also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Perfumedia's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (13 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
Both are free to download. Perfumedia sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. ScentAdvice asks for nothing beyond the download.
ScentAdvice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perfumedia has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of ScentAdvice's written reviews are positive against 33% of Perfumedia's.
ScentAdvice ships an update every 6 months, Perfumedia every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScentAdvice | Perfumedia |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 2.9 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Bakker | DANIEL BROMBERG |
Customer experience
ScentAdvice
Perfumedia
In-app purchases
ScentAdvice
No in-app purchases
Perfumedia
- Premium Monthly$7.991 Month
- Premium Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
