Scento Perfume API

Scento Perfume API is a free perfume API and perfume MCP server for developers, AI agents and fragrance apps. One endpoint gives you Scento's verified perfume database: 1,500+ perfumes from 160+ houses and 400+ raw materials, each with a full notes pyramid (top, heart and base notes), scent family, occasion and similar-scent links. Every pyramid is traced to the house or an authorized retailer, so the notes you return are the notes on the bottle, not scraped guesses.

Connect it as a remote MCP server at https://www.scento.com/mcp (works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code and any MCP client) or call the REST fragrance API at https://www.scento.com/api/perfume/v1 with the OpenAPI spec at https://www.scento.com/api/perfume/v1/openapi.json. No API key, no sign-up, no rate-limit tiers to buy: it is free.

12 tools cover the real jobs: perfume-search, perfume-portrait, scent-neighbours, perfume-contrast, note-portrait, material-match, house-portrait, family-map, occasion-edit, wardrobe-composer, perfumery-lexicon, journal-search. Search a perfume by name or by notes, get a perfume notes API response with pyramid and family, find similar scents, contrast two perfumes, look up a fragrance ingredient (raw material) and match it to the perfumes that use it, map a scent family, build an occasion edit or a wardrobe, and read the perfumery lexicon.

Why it beats other perfume APIs: free with no key, MCP and REST and OpenAPI in one service, a notes database and a fragrance ingredients database in the same place, answers in 10 languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Greek), and sourcing you can trust. Built and maintained by Scento, the perfume atelier. Docs: https://www.scento.com/developers

A free perfume and fragrance API and MCP server over Scento's verified perfume database, from Scento. Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client for the portrait of a perfume, the difference between two you are torn over, the scents built on the same structure, or what a raw material such as ambroxan smells like. Every answer is tied to a page on scento.com. No key, no account, read-only.

This package is a small local bridge (Node 18 or later, no dependencies beyond the standard library). It speaks MCP over stdio for clients that only run local servers, and relays each message to the Scento Perfume API at https://www.scento.com/mcp.

Install

Add it to your client's MCP configuration (Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json, Cursor ~/.cursor/mcp.json, VS Code .vscode/mcp.json using servers in place of mcpServers, Windsurf and others):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scento-perfume-api": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "scento-perfume-api"]
    }
  }
}

Or run the command yourself:

npx -y scento-perfume-api

Check it from a terminal:

npx -y scento-perfume-api --help

Use another endpoint with --endpoint <url>.

No bridge needed?

Most clients can talk to the Scento Perfume API directly. Add the remote URL as a custom connector (Claude, ChatGPT) or as an HTTP server:

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

Prefer plain HTTP? The same answers are on the REST API with an OpenAPI file.

The twelve tools

| Tool | What it does | |---|---| | perfume-search | Find perfumes, houses and raw materials in Scento's verified perfume database by name, house, note or mood word. | | perfume-portrait | The full portrait of one perfume: pyramid, Scento family, character and when it wears best. | | scent-neighbours | Perfumes that share the most structure with a given one, with the shared materials named. | | perfume-contrast | Set two to four perfumes side by side on family, pyramid, character and season. | | note-portrait | What a note or raw material is, where it comes from and how it reads on skin. | | material-match | Perfumes that contain every material given, optionally in one tier of the pyramid. | | house-portrait | A perfume house: origin, founding year, style and its signature perfumes. | | family-map | Scento's own fragrance-family system, or one family with its subfamilies and exemplars. | | occasion-edit | A short edit of perfumes for an occasion, season or climate, with a line on each. | | wardrobe-composer | Three to five perfumes that cover different moments, built around what the person already loves. | | perfumery-lexicon | Plain-language meaning of a perfumery term such as sillage, chypre, fougère or EDP versus EDT. | | journal-search | Scento journal articles on a perfume, house, material or topic. |

Pass lang (de, fr, es, it, ro, el, hu, cs, pl) to receive scento.com links in that language.

Links

• Developers page: https://www.scento.com/developers
• Scento: https://www.scento.com

Scento is Europe's largest perfume decant website, founded in Paris in 2024. MIT licence (this bridge only).