Free perfume & fragrance API and MCP server: notes, families, similar scents, 1,400+ perfumes.
A free perfume and fragrance API and MCP server for AI assistants, built on Scento's verified perfume database. From Scento, a perfume decant house founded in Paris in 2024.
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client for a perfume's notes and family, the difference between two you are torn over, similar scents built on the same structure, or what a raw material such as ambroxan smells like. The perfume database covers 1,400+ designer and niche perfumes, 400+ raw materials, 140+ houses and Scento's own fragrance-family system, and every answer is tied to a page on scento.com. No key, no account, read-only.
Remote server: https://www.scento.com/mcp (streamable HTTP, no authentication)
Docs: https://www.scento.com/developers
| Client | How |
|---|---|
| Claude (web, desktop, mobile) | Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector. Paste https://www.scento.com/mcp. |
| ChatGPT | Settings, Connectors, create a connector in developer mode. Server URL https://www.scento.com/mcp, authentication none. |
| Cursor | Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json: {"mcpServers":{"scento-perfume-api":{"url":"https://www.scento.com/mcp"}}} |
| VS Code | Add to .vscode/mcp.json: {"servers":{"scento-perfume-api":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.scento.com/mcp"}}} |
| Claude Code | claude mcp add --transport http scento-perfume-api https://www.scento.com/mcp |
Clients that only run local servers can use the stdio bridge in this repo:
npx -y scento-perfume-api # Node 18+
uvx scento-perfume-api # Python 3.9+
Both accept --endpoint <url> (or SCENTO_PERFUME_API_ENDPOINT). The same bridge is also published as perfume-mcp-server and perfume-database on npm and PyPI.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
perfume-search | Find perfumes, houses and raw materials 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.
The same answers are available as a perfume API over plain HTTP.
Three raw JSON-RPC calls are in examples/.
npm/: the Node stdio bridge, published as scento-perfume-api on npmpypi/: the Python stdio bridge, published as scento-perfume-api on PyPIserver.json: metadata for the Official MCP Registry (com.scento/perfume-api)MIT for the bridge code in this repository. The perfume database content is served from scento.com under its terms.
Source-derived launch command. Check the maintainer’s required arguments and credentials before running:
npx -y scento-perfume-apiMerge this template into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json. Keep existing servers. Add any arguments, credentials, and permissions required by the maintainer; this template has not been install-tested.
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-scento-perfume-api": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"scento-perfume-api"
]
}
}
}Restart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect. Confirm the server appears connected in the client’s tool list, then try a read-only example from its documentation.
Claude Desktop setup referencescento-perfume-apinpmScento Perfume API (MCP server) works with any MCP-compatible client. Copy the config snippet from the Configuration section above and add it to the file shown for your client, then restart the application.
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonRestart Claude Desktop completely for changes to take effect.~/.cursor/mcp.jsonRestart Cursor for changes to take effect..vscode/mcp.jsonReload VS Code window for changes to take effect.~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonRestart Windsurf for changes to take effect..mcp.jsonSave at the project root, then start Claude Code in that project and review the MCP server approval prompt. Keep real credentials out of shared files.