What we check on a perfume house
- Its own website says it was founded, is based or makes its perfume in that country.
- It is independent or family-owned, not part of a large luxury, cosmetics or investment group.
- Perfume is its main craft. We count the products in its own shop: if candles, soaps, body care or home scents outnumber the perfumes, it is left out, however famous. Resellers and copycat scents are left out too.
- You can buy it in person in that country: its own shop, a named stockist, or a visit by appointment. Online-only brands are left out.
- It is still trading: its website, shop and social accounts are active.
Workshops and museums
A workshop is listed only if you make a perfume to wear. Classes that make room sprays, fabric mists, candles or incense are left out, even when they are called perfume classes. Each workshop needs a real address you can visit and a booking page that works.
Some Book buttons go to GetYourGuide or Viator. We link one only when its page names the same studio at the same address as our listing, and it never decides what we list. How that works.
Only local houses
Global brands sold everywhere are left out, even when they have a shop in town. Small houses that make their perfume where they are based are the point of this guide.
Sources on every entry
Open "Sources" under any listing to see the pages we used. Each listing also shows the date we last checked it.
Kept up to date
Every month we check each live listing again for broken sources and for changes to prices, hours and closures. A listing that no longer meets these rules comes off the site.
