scentindex

A window onto a large fragrance index. scentindex queries the public 10ml Fragrance Index — perfumes, the notes inside them, the houses that make them, and the guides that explain the vocabulary — and returns what the index returns, unchanged. No account and no API key are involved; it is a thin, honest client over a public API.

What you can do with it:

• Search perfumes by free text, house, notes included or excluded, accords, family, gender, season, occasion or style, and page through the results with a cursor.

• Open one perfume in full to see its notes, accords and metadata.

• Start from a perfume, a note set or an accord profile and find similar scents, or look for alternatives — the same scent profile from other houses.

• Browse perfumes by a single note, for example everything containing oud.

• Ask what a note actually smells like and where it tends to appear.

• List and open fragrance houses, filtered by type or country, and search the index's guides and glossary content.

Most tools accept a locale for the response language and, where the underlying operation supports it, a response_format of concise (the API's default) or detailed. List tools page with limit (1–100) and an opaque cursor taken from a previous response.

Labelled subset: 9 of 15 tools

This rebuild implements 9 of the original tool set's 15 tools — the nine that map onto operations published in the upstream OpenAPI document:

search_perfumes, get_perfume, find_similar_perfumes, find_perfume_alternatives, perfumes_by_note, explain_note, list_houses, get_house, search_guides.

The remaining six are omitted, because they have no operation in the published OpenAPI and their argument shapes are not published anywhere reachable:

compare_perfumes, recommend_perfumes, explain_perfume_term, suggest_layering, pick_for_occasion, find_gift.

Related MCP server: openbeautyfacts

Configuration

The API base defaults to https://mcp.10ml.com/api/v1 and can be overridden with the PERFUME_API_BASE environment variable. No API key is required.

CLI

Each tool is a subcommand taking one JSON argument string:

npx @reneturcios/scentindex search_perfumes '{"q":"oud","limit":10}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex get_perfume '{"id":"<perfume id>"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex find_similar_perfumes '{"perfume":"<name>"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex find_perfume_alternatives '{"perfume":"<name>"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex perfumes_by_note '{"note":"oud"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex explain_note '{"id":"oud"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex list_houses '{"country":"FR"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex get_house '{"id":"<house id>"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex search_guides '{"q":"layering"}'
npx @reneturcios/scentindex --version

Output is the upstream JSON, verbatim. Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on a runtime error (including a validation or upstream failure), 2 on a usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/scentindex mcp

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scentindex": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/scentindex", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/scentindex
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/scentindex perfumes_by_note '{"note":"oud"}'

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc -> dist/
npm test        # tsx --test test/*.test.ts (fake fetch only, no network)
npm run dev     # run the CLI from source

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Rene Turcios