Scento Perfume Compendium

npx add-mcp 'https://www.scento.com/mcp'

The perfume knowledge connector for AI assistants

Scento Perfume Compendium

Scento Perfume Compendium is the perfume knowledge connector for AI assistants: 700+ designer and niche perfumes, 400+ raw materials and Scento's own family system, with every answer tied to a page on scento.com. No key, no account.

One URL for every client

https://www.scento.com/mcp

Connect

Add it to your assistant in a minute

One remote server, no key needed. Paste https://www.scento.com/mcp where your client asks for a connector or an MCP server.

Web or desktop

Claude

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://www.scento.com/mcp.

Terminal

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http scento-perfume-compendium https://www.scento.com/mcp

Developer mode

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps → Advanced → developer mode → Create → paste https://www.scento.com/mcp, authentication None.

Any MCP client

Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf

Add this to mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scento-perfume-compendium": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.scento.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

Twelve read-only tools

Each answer is a folio: a lede an assistant can quote, the detail, the scento.com page to read on and a line to cite.

1. Search the Compendium

   01 compendium-search Find perfumes, houses and raw materials in the Scento Compendium by name, house, note or mood word.

2. Perfume portrait

   02 perfume-portrait The full portrait of one perfume: pyramid, Scento family, character and when it wears best.

3. Scent neighbours

   03 scent-neighbours Perfumes that share the most structure with a given one, with the shared materials named.

4. Side-by-side contrast

   04 perfume-contrast Set two to four perfumes side by side on family, pyramid, character and season.

5. Raw material portrait

   05 note-portrait What a note or raw material is, where it comes from and how it reads on skin.

6. Perfumes built on these materials

   06 material-match Perfumes that contain every material given, optionally in one tier of the pyramid.

7. Perfume house portrait

   07 house-portrait A perfume house: origin, founding year, style and its signature perfumes.

8. Scento family map

   08 family-map Scento's own fragrance-family system, or one family with its subfamilies and exemplars.

9. Edit for an occasion

   09 occasion-edit A short edit of perfumes for an occasion, season or climate, with a line on each.

10. Compose a fragrance wardrobe

    10 wardrobe-composer Three to five perfumes that cover different moments, built around what the person already loves.

11. Perfumery lexicon

    11 perfumery-lexicon Plain-language meaning of a perfumery term such as sillage, chypre, fougère or EDP versus EDT.

12. Search the Scento journal

    12 journal-search Scento journal articles on a perfume, house, material or topic.

Try asking

• “Give me the portrait of Tom Ford Oud Wood: notes, family and when to wear it”
• “Compare Byredo Mojave Ghost and Byredo Gypsy Water side by side”
• “Which perfumes are built on tobacco and vanilla in the base?”
• “Portray Frederic Malle Portrait of a Lady in a paragraph I can read aloud”
• “Which perfumes share the structure of Parfums de Marly Layton?”
• “What does ambroxan smell like, and which perfumes show it best?”

REST API

The Scento Compendium API

Prefer plain HTTP? The same answers live under https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1. Every route takes lang, and lists take continuation.

A perfume portrait

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/perfumes/oud-wood?lang=de"

Scent neighbours

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/perfumes/layton/neighbours"

Side by side

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/contrast?perfumes=mojave-ghost,gypsy-water"

A raw material

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/materials/ambroxan"

Built on these materials

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/materials/match?materials=tobacco,vanilla&tier=base"

The family map

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/families"

An occasion edit

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/edits/summer-days?lang=fr"

Search the journal

curl "https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/journal?q=vetiver"

Described in OpenAPI 3.1 · MCP server card

FAQ

Questions developers ask

What is Scento Perfume Compendium?

Scento Perfume Compendium turns Claude into a well-read perfume adviser. Ask it to portray a perfume, contrast two you are torn between, find scents built on the same structure, explain a raw material such as orris or ambroxan, introduce a house, or compose a wardrobe and an edit for an occasion. Answers draw on the Scento Compendium: 700+ designer and niche perfumes with full note pyramids, 400+ raw materials and Scento's own family map. Every answer links to the matching page on scento.com in ten languages. Read-only, no account, no key.

Do I need an API key or an account?

No. Scento Perfume Compendium is free and read-only. Add https://www.scento.com/mcp to your assistant, or call the Scento Compendium API at https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1, and it answers straight away: no key, no account, no sign-up.

Which assistants and editors does it work with?

Claude on the web and desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT in developer mode, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and any other client that speaks the Model Context Protocol over streamable HTTP. Anything that can make an HTTP request can use the REST API instead.

What can I ask it?

Twelve read-only tools cover a perfume’s portrait and its neighbours, side-by-side contrasts, raw materials and the perfumes built on them, perfume houses, Scento’s family map, occasion edits, a small wardrobe, perfumery terms and the Scento journal. For example: “Give me the portrait of Tom Ford Oud Wood: notes, family and when to wear it” or “What does ambroxan smell like, and which perfumes show it best?”.

Does it answer in other languages?

Answers are written in English. Pass lang (de, fr, es, it, ro, el, hu, cs or pl) and every link in the answer points to the scento.com page in that language.

How should an answer be credited?

Each answer carries a scento_page link and a cite line, “Scento Perfume Compendium, scento.com”. Quote the lede as it stands and link the page so readers can go deeper.

What happens to the questions I send?

The Compendium needs no personal data and keeps no account. Requests are answered and not stored by Scento beyond the standard technical logs of our hosting providers. The privacy policy explains the details.

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