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Tap what you want to smell. AKIN places what you describe and finds the real bottles nearest to it.

Or read it the other way round — the catalogue lists what exists; the map shows how it all sits together.

The notes

The common materials are below. Typing reaches every note the catalogue knows.

Citrus

Bergamot Lemon Mandarin Orange Grapefruit Orange Mandarin
+ 7 more
Lime Petitgrain Tangerine Bitter Orange Blood Orange Calabrian Bergamot Amalfi Lemon

Herbs

Thyme Lavender Mint Sage Coriander Rosemary
+ 8 more
Clary Sage Violet Leaf Basil Galbanum Artemisia Juniper Juniper Berries Tea

Flowers

Jasmine Rose Orange Blossom Geranium Iris Lily of the Valley
+ 24 more
Ylang-Ylang Violet Neroli Tuberose Peony Heliotrope Freesia Orris Jasmine Sambac Magnolia Gardenia Aldehyde Bulgarian Rose Orris Root Lily Carnation Orchid Turkish Rose Damask Rose May Rose Narcissus Honeysuckle Hedione Frangipani

Fruit

Blackcurrant Pear Raspberry Peach Apple Pineapple
+ 14 more
Coconut Plum Osmanthus Strawberry Fig Apricot Davana Mango Melon Cherry Red Berries Passion Fruit Green Apple Rhubarb

Spice

Pink Pepper Cardamom Saffron Cinnamon Ginger Nutmeg
+ 4 more
Black Pepper Pepper Clove Cumin

Sweet

Vanilla Tonka Bean Caramel Honey Praline Coffee
+ 12 more
Almond Rum Sugar Cocoa Madagascar Vanilla Marshmallow Bourbon Vanilla Milk Licorice Cognac Coumarin Hazelnut

Woods

Sandalwood Cedar Vetiver Cashmeran Cedarwood Guaiac Wood
+ 4 more
Cypress Virginia Cedar Brazilian Rosewood Akigalawood

Resin and smoke

Amber Leather Agarwood Benzoin Labdanum Ambergris
+ 11 more
Incense Frankincense Ambroxan Tobacco Amberwood Elemi Myrrh Suede Styrax Birch Cypriol Oil or Nagarmotha

Moss, musk and skin

Musk Patchouli Oakmoss White Musk Moss Ambrette
+ 2 more
Ambrette (Musk Mallow) Cyclamen

A material marked seldom recorded is still offered. Too few bottles carry it for it to change where a description lands, and saying so is cheaper than pretending otherwise.

Or go straight to a list — every bottle we hold · the scent map

What you described

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Top
Thyme ×
Heart
Base
Vanilla ×

Every mark here is one block. The catalogue puts each of these where it sits and nowhere else worth the name, so there is nothing to decide.

Two notesNarrowing. Thyme and Vanilla together rule most of the catalogue out, and an order is starting to appear.

Where this sits

What you described sits at the filled mark, ringed by the bottles below. Where the ground is empty, nothing exists — that is the whole of what a distance on this page means.

the catalogue a bottle below what you described

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Axis coefficients: Zarzo, M. Sensors 2013, 13(1), 463-483. doi:10.3390/s130100463. CC BY 3.0.

AKIN the nearest real bottles

Nothing in the catalogue is exactly what you described. These are the closest that exist — and now some are closer than others.

What you describedFurther

The marks have narrowed and separated. Two materials place a description well enough that the top of this list means something. A third will settle it.

Every note here is a link and this page answers without any script at all; what the script saves is the reload.