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me and myscent To the test

Background

Why this test exists

The shelf shows brand, price and size. Who a fragrance suits is written nowhere. That is the gap this test closes.

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18 questions, about five minutes. The result costs 9.99 euros, and you pay only afterwards.

How buying a fragrance works today

On the left is what you know from the perfumery. For many people that works well. On the right is what we make of it.

In the shop

You stand in the shop. A cloud of a hundred fragrances hangs over everything.

Someone hands you paper strips, one after another. After the third you can no longer tell them apart.

At home

You start at home, with a clear nose.

You answer questions about yourself, at your own pace, and read your profile before any fragrance is named.

What gets recommended

What sits at the front of the shelf is what the brand paid for. Why this particular fragrance stays unsaid.

What we recommend

Three fragrances with the reasoning, every brand treated alike. We earn nothing from your later purchase.

Four differences that stay

How it starts

Retail: in the shop, with a cloud of a thousand fragrances, often in a crowd.

Here: at home, in quiet, with no fragrance in your nose.

What comes first

Retail: you pick a fragrance and hope it fits.

Here: you come first, the name comes last.

How much time

Retail: three minutes at the shelf.

Here: 18 to 56 decisions, at your pace, wherever you are.

Why this suggestion

Retail: stays open.

Here: your reasoning is shown, answer by answer.

The four steps

After each step you know how long the next one takes.

1. Answer, 5 to 20 minutes

18 questions about you, not about fragrances. Answer first, decide after. You can always go back.

2. Unlock the result, under a minute

9.99 euros once. This is the first point where anything is paid, and only after the questions.

3. Read your profile, 2 minutes

Only here does the first fragrance name appear. Your profile comes before it.

4. Test it on your skin, your call

You ask in the shop for exactly these three names. This step happens without us.

What we do not do

There is no buy link and no commission. No brand pays for a place in your result. At the end you get three names, not a basket.

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No account, no sign-up. You pay after the questions.