The atlas places 24,050 fragrances by how they smell — two perfumes drift close together when they share notes and accords, and the fourteen colours are families of scent. Here is what falls out when you stand back: which families rule, which perfumes are secretly the same, and the rare few that smell like nothing else. No numbers required.
← back to the mapEach perfume is sorted into one family by its accords — the broad strokes of how it smells. The bar shows how much of the whole atlas a family claims; the little W · M · U strip shows who tends to wear it (women · men · either).
These pairs come from different houses, yet they land almost on top of each other on the map — near-identical smells. The fragrance world calls them dupes; an expensive perfume and its budget twin, side by side.
And the opposite — well-loved perfumes whose nearest neighbour is still far away. These smell like almost nothing else in the whole atlas.
Each bar is a decade, split into its scent families. The sweet gourmands and fresh citrus that fill today's shelves are a fairly recent taste.