ScentAdvice vs SPILS
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!
SPILS
This app is a digital playground for fragrance enthusiasts, collectors, and creators. It offers tools to journal scent experiences, curate personal collections, experiment with fragrance formulas, and access a reference library of perfumery materials. Connect with a global community of scent lovers.
- Scent journaling and memory bank
- Fragrance collection organization
- Ingredient exploration and formula building
- Perfumery material reference library
- Community connection and discovery
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SPILS brings your fragrance world together in one digital playground, a suite of apps created for enthusiasts, collectors, aspiring perfumers, and creators. Explore five distinct spaces designed around the way we experience, collect, create, and connect through fragrance. SPILS is launching completely open and free to explore for approximately the first 30 days. After this introductory period, you can stay on the Free plan or upgrade to SPILS Premium for expanded access. There is no automatic subscription or charge. Anything you create during the introductory period will remain in your account and accessible, even if you choose to stay on the Free plan. Premium pricing will be announced before it goes live, and Community will remain free. JOURNAL Your Scent Experience. Your Scent Story. There are plenty of perfume databases that can tell you the notes, descriptions and details of a fragrance. Journal was built for something more personal: what a scent means to you. Part diary, part memory bank, it’s a place for your impressions, experiences and scent memories, captured in your own words. SPILS can assist when you want it, but it doesn’t tell your story for you. Your nose. Your memories. Your perspective. COLLECTION Curate your fragrance world. Organize and explore your personal perfume Collection in one place, keeping the fragrances you own and the information surrounding them easy to discover and manage. LAB Experiment. Create. Evolve. Explore ingredients, build and refine formulas, document experiments, and save different versions as your fragrance ideas evolve. COMING SOON Collaborative formula creation with partners and groups ORGAN Your perfumery reference library. Explore and organize a catalog of perfumery materials and ingredients for reference, learning, and easier access to the information behind fragrance creation. Import your existing materials from a CSV file, or get started with a downloadable SPILS template. COMMUNITY Explore, discover, and connect with fragrance enthusiasts around the world. AVAILABLE NOW Industry News Fragrance Chat SPILS Support COMING SOON Interviews Events Marketplace Formula Forum Directory Share your SPILS entries, discoveries, and creations with others, from your Journal and Collection to the Lab and Organ. Whether you're discovering fragrance, documenting a growing collection, learning perfumery, developing your own formulas, or simply obsessed with scent, SPILS gives your fragrance life one place to live.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SPILS at weekly against ScentAdvice's every 6 months. ScentAdvice's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ScentAdvice against 5.0 for SPILS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
ScentAdvice ships an update every 6 months, SPILS weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScentAdvice | SPILS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Brian Bakker | DONERIK LLC |
Customer experience
ScentAdvice
SPILS
In-app purchases
ScentAdvice
No in-app purchases
SPILS
No in-app purchases









