Scento Perfume Compendium
The perfume knowledge connector for AI assistants, from Scento, Europe's largest perfume decant website, founded in Paris in 2024.
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. It covers hundreds of designer and niche perfumes, 300+ raw materials 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
Connect
| 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-compendium":{"url":"https://www.scento.com/mcp"}}} |
| VS Code | Add to .vscode/mcp.json: {"servers":{"scento-perfume-compendium":{"type":"http","url":"https://www.scento.com/mcp"}}} |
| Claude Code | claude mcp add --transport http scento-perfume-compendium https://www.scento.com/mcp |
Clients that only run local servers can use the stdio bridge in this repo:
npx -y scento-perfume-compendium # Node 18+
uvx scento-perfume-compendium # Python 3.9+
Both accept --endpoint <url> (or SCENTO_COMPENDIUM_ENDPOINT).
The twelve tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
compendium-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.
REST
The same answers are available over plain HTTP.
- API base: https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1
- OpenAPI: https://www.scento.com/api/compendium/v1/openapi.json
Examples
Three raw JSON-RPC calls are in examples/.
Repository layout
npm/: the Node stdio bridge, published asscento-perfume-compendiumon npmpypi/: the Python stdio bridge, published asscento-perfume-compendiumon PyPIserver.json: metadata for the Official MCP Registry (com.scento/perfume-compendium)
Licence
MIT for the bridge code in this repository. The Compendium content is served from scento.com under its terms.
