User Guide
Your complete guide to documenting, organizing, and perfecting your fragrance creations. From creating your first recipe to tracking maturation batches and comparing versions.
Create your account and explore the dashboard
Register with your email address and choose a username. Your username will be displayed on any public recipes you share.
After logging in, you'll see your personal dashboard with an overview of your formulas, quick actions, and recent recipes.
Click 'New Formula' to start documenting your first fragrance. Add a name, description, select the concentration type, and begin building your formula.
Pro Tip
Create, organize, and manage your fragrance formulas
Categorize your recipes as Eau de Parfum (EdP), Eau de Toilette (EdT), Cologne, Parfum, or Other based on their concentration.
Keep recipes private in your personal archive or share them publicly with the community. Change visibility anytime.
Add custom tags to categorize recipes by season, occasion, scent family, or any system that works for your workflow.
Set the recommended maturation days for your formula. This helps track aging time when you start maturation batches.
Edit recipe settings directly from your dashboard by clicking the edit button on any recipe card. You can update the name, description, category, visibility, maturation days, and tags without navigating to the full recipe page.
Document your formula with precise measurements
Each ingredient in your recipe can be documented with detailed information including measurements, note classification, and personal notes. The ingredient system supports both library ingredients and custom names.
The first impression of your fragrance. These evaporate quickly, typically within 15-30 minutes. Common examples include citrus, light fruits, and fresh herbs.
The core character of your fragrance. These emerge after top notes fade and last 30 minutes to 2 hours. Includes florals, spices, and green notes.
The foundation of your fragrance. These are the longest lasting (2+ hours) and include woods, musks, ambers, and resins.
Ingredients that enhance or bridge other notes. They adjust the character of the blend without being prominent themselves.
Materials that slow evaporation and extend the longevity of your fragrance. Common fixatives include benzoin, labdanum, and certain musks.
Choose the unit that matches your measuring tools and workflow.
Drag & Drop
Document your blending procedure
Record each step of your creation process. Include timing, specific instructions, and notes to ensure you can reproduce the same results every time.
A clear name for each step, like "Add base notes" or "Initial blending"
Detailed instructions for what to do during this step
How long this step takes in minutes (optional)
Additional tips, warnings, or observations for this step
Reordering
Track changes and maintain recipe history
Quoted Aroma includes a powerful version control system that lets you track changes to your recipes over time. This works similarly to how developers manage code, but designed for perfumers.
When you edit a recipe, changes are saved to a draft. Drafts are your working copy where you can freely make changes without affecting published versions. The draft is shown with an "Editing Draft" indicator.
When you publish a draft, it becomes an immutable version that cannot be edited. This creates a permanent record of your recipe at that point in time. Published versions are numbered (v1, v2, v3, etc.).
Use the version history dropdown to view any previous published version. Historical versions are read-only, allowing you to see exactly what your recipe looked like at any point in its development.
Publish Draft
Create a new immutable version from your draft
Discard Draft
Delete unsaved changes and revert to latest published
View History
Browse and view any previous version
Delete Version
Remove old versions (private recipes only)
Important
Visualize your fragrance structure
The Note Pyramid provides a visual breakdown of your recipe's structure. It shows the distribution of top, heart, and base notes, plus functional ingredients like modifiers and fixatives.
The pyramid includes a balance indicator that helps you understand if your formula is well-balanced or weighted toward a particular note family:
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Monitor the aging process of your creations
Track multiple maturation batches for each recipe version. Monitor progress, add notes during the aging process, and keep a complete history of your batches.
Click 'Start Batch' and enter the expected maturation days. The system calculates the expected completion date automatically.
View active batches with days elapsed and days remaining. Batches show if they're overdue based on the expected end date.
Document observations during maturation. Add notes about scent development, color changes, or anything noteworthy.
Mark batches as complete when ready, or cancel if you decide not to continue. Completed batches move to the history section.
Active
Currently maturing
Complete
Finished aging
Cancelled
Discontinued batches
Batch Numbering
Document how your fragrance develops over time
Track how your fragrance evolves from the first spray to the final drydown. Record observations at different stages to understand the full journey of your creation.
Opening
0-15 minutes
First impression when freshly applied
Heart
30 min - 2 hours
Core character emerges
Dry Down
2-6 hours
Base notes become prominent
Final
6+ hours
Lingering skin scent
Longevity
How many hours the scent lasts
Sillage
Intimate, Moderate, Strong, or Beast mode
Record your testing sessions
Keep a detailed record of every time you test your fragrance. Track different test types, conditions, and results to understand how your creation performs.
Skin Test
Blotter Test
Spray Test
Longevity Test
Average Longevity
Track ingredient costs and recipe expenses
Calculate the total cost of your recipe based on ingredient prices. The cost calculator shows a breakdown per ingredient and highlights any ingredients missing pricing information.
See the combined cost of all ingredients with pricing data
View cost contribution of each ingredient
Quickly identify which ingredients need price data
Alerts about unit conversion assumptions
Scale your recipe to any batch size
Need to make a larger or smaller batch? The scaling calculator automatically adjusts all ingredient amounts while maintaining the same proportions.
Specify how much you want to make (e.g., 100ml, 50g)
Enable 'Round to practical amounts' for easier measuring
See the original amount, scale factor, and new amounts for each ingredient
One-click copy of scaled recipe for easy reference in your workspace
Rounding
See differences between recipe versions
Compare any two published versions of your recipe to see exactly what changed. This is invaluable for understanding how your formula evolved and what modifications led to improvements.
Additions (+)
Removals (-)
Modifications (~)
Build on existing recipes
Found a public recipe you want to build upon? You have two options depending on whether you want to maintain attribution.
Creates a linked copy with attribution to the original recipe and author.
Creates an independent copy with no link to the original.
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Discover recipes from fellow perfumers
Browse public recipes shared by the Quoted Aroma community. Find inspiration, learn from other perfumers, and discover new techniques and combinations.
Filter recipes by concentration type - EdP, EdT, Cologne, Parfum, or other formulations.
Find specific recipes or ingredients using the search functionality.
See complete recipes including ingredients, steps, and note distribution.
Found something you like? Fork it to create your own version with attribution.
Create your first recipe and begin documenting your fragrance journey with all the tools you need.
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