The MyScentCal Analytical Workbook: Automated Fragrance Formulation & R&D Platform
Intro: The Challenge of the Beginner Perfumer
You're a serious beginner or small-batch creator, passionate about blending, but intimidated by the technical analysis. When you read about complex terms like "Chypre Score," "Fougère Architecture," or "Accord Dominance," it feels like gatekeeping. How do you apply these concepts to your own materials and your own formulas?
Wasting materials on miscalculated batches or struggling to name your fragrance because you can't confidently define its style is frustrating. You need a tool that bridges the gap between common perfumery terminology and the numbers on your scale.
Introducing MyScentCal: Your Automated Study Partner
The MyScentCal Analytical Notebook is your affordable, Excel-based solution. It's built on secure VBA to perform instant, complex analysis, acting as an automated tutor that confirms your creative decisions with objective data.
This notebook helps you save money by eliminating manual calculation errors and save time by providing instant clarity on your blend's DNA.
MyScentCal Helps You Learn, Analyze, and Save
We've focused the design on three key areas that empower the evolving perfumer:
- Translating Terminology with Your Data:
- The Accord Breakdown: The workbook takes the weight of every material in your formula and instantly aggregates it into common perfumery categories (like "Floral," "Woody," or "Amber"). You see the exact percentage contribution of these Accords, making abstract terminology concrete and specific to your current blend.
- Dynamic Denominator: All Accord percentages are calculated against the actual total weight of your formula, ensuring that your analysis is nearly accurate, eliminating the most common and costly spreadsheet errors.
- Unlocking Architectural Precision:
- Advanced Family Scoring: Go beyond basic families. The system applies specialized, calculated scores to help you understand complex fragrance architectures, such as Chypre or Fougère. This feature helps you confirm whether your blend successfully hits the structural marks of these classic styles.
- Confident Classification: Get objective guidance on your fragrance identity with a calculated Gender Classification (Masculine, Feminine, Unisex), useful for confidently positioning your final product.
- Secure, Cost-Saving Workflow:
- Error Prevention: The VBA is designed to prevent calculation errors and features a simple System Check & Reset tool to fix common technical glitches that usually frustrate non-savvy users.
Structured R&D: Securely track up to 10 unique test batches with all their corresponding analytical scores. This disciplined record-keeping turns experimentation into structured learning, preventing you from repeating past mistakes and saving you materials.