What is Scentle?
Scentle is a daily perfume guessing game that challenges you to identify a fragrance from its olfactory pyramid. The screen displays a three-tier composition (top, heart, and base notes) with ingredient counts and labeled fragrance families such as woody, spicy, citrus, animalic, or gourmand. You start with no additional clues and must type a perfume name based solely on the note structure.
How to play Scentle
- Study the displayed pyramid showing all three layers of notes with their counts and family labels.
- Type a perfume name into the input field.
- If incorrect, check the progress bar at the top to see which new hint tier has opened, then guess again.
- Use the skip button to reveal the next hint immediately if no name comes to mind, though it costs one attempt.
- Continue until you either guess correctly or exhaust all six attempts.
Reading the feedback
Scentle does not use color coding or proximity hints. Each failed guess or skip unlocks the next tier on the progress bar in this order: notes (visible from the start), bio, country, house, collection, one unnamed tier, then the final answer. The attempt counter at the bottom left shows your current attempt out of six remaining.
Why play Scentle?
The game turns fragrance recognition into a detective puzzle. Because the full pyramid appears immediately, success depends on linking materials and families to a specific perfume name rather than gathering hidden information. Each wrong answer transforms the round into a documentary exploration of an object you likely knew only by its bottle or marketing.
Tips for a stronger guess
Read the progress bar sequence before you start. Knowing that house and collection only appear in later tiers helps you decide how many early attempts you can afford without critical context.
Look at the distribution of fragrance families across the three levels rather than fixing on individual ingredients. The balance between woody, floral, gourmand, and other families often reveals the perfume's genre and era more clearly than any single note.
A failed guess and a skip both cost one attempt and unlock the same hint tier. The only difference is that a guess can win. Reserve the skip button for moments when you have no plausible name in mind, as stated in the rules.
Modes
Perfume of the Day: One puzzle per day, replaced at midnight, with a date and number in the header. Streaks of consecutive days are tracked locally in your browser.
How many attempts does Scentle give?
Six. The counter at the bottom displays your current attempt out of six, and the rules confirm a maximum of six guesses.
Is skipping free?
No. The rules state explicitly that a skip costs one attempt in exchange for immediately revealing the next hint tier.
In what order do hints unlock?
The progress bar at the top shows: notes (visible from the start), bio, country, house, collection, one unnamed tier, then the final answer. The help panel mentions a slightly different sequence including era and perfumer, but the in-game rail and skip button follow the order shown on the progress bar.