DonVanVliet 6 months ago
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“Top Picks”: The New Feature for Creative Fragrance Tier Lists
Parfumo is excited to launch "Top Picks", a feature that allows users to creatively showcase their fragrance choices. Building on the top-rated fragrances page, this new addition offers greater flexibility and innovation in how users present their selections.
With "Top Picks" you can create individual top lists, so-called tier lists, for fragrances. This lets you present...
DonVanVliet 7 months ago
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The Smart Fruit Seller - How We Now Rank the Best Perfumes
We are constantly striving to improve the validity and accuracy of our community's ratings and rankings. As a result, we have updated the way we calculate the ratings for our top lists.
What changes?
Instead of the previous Wilson score, we now use a "weighted Wilson score"
Simple averages vs. ranking
Before we go into detail, you should know that the average scores displayed...
DonVanVliet 8 months ago
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The Open Source Dilemma: A Closer Look At “Perfumer Archive”
The recently launched website perfumerarchive.com has quietly entered the stage of the fragrance world. The project, which describes itself as an "open source platform for the perfumery community", is arguably facing potential legal hurdles that could challenge its ambitions.
"Perfumer Archive" praises its collection of formulas, accords and base notes as a boon to the perfume...
DonVanVliet 11 months ago
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Update: New preview feature for perfume collections
When you click on a perfume in the collections, there is now a better preview. It replaces the "big" window and should make it easier to use. A number of other useful features have also been added.
The new preview window
The window will now appear below the fragranceYou no longer need to confirm the deletion. You can also delete scents more quickly by clicking on the little trash can icon...
DonVanVliet 12 months ago
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Update: Explore Perfume Collections in Greater Detail With the New “Profiler“
With the new "Profiler", we launched a new feature that lets you discover the most common fragrance notes, scent type and additional information about a fragrance collection at a glance.
Frequently occurring fragrance notes in a collection
You can now check which fragrance notes appear most frequently in each collection. Clicking on the fragrance note highlights...
DonVanVliet 1 year ago
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Minor Updates in January / February 2023
There have been some minor updates recently. I would like to briefly summarize the most important changes here
Collections
You can now add perfumes directly to the collections without having to visit each individual perfume. To do this, click on the small "+". Adding your own collections has also been optimized.
Main accords
On the fragrance pages there is now a visual summary of the main accords...
Jusch1995 1 year ago
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Fragrance bottles made by an AI
fellows, the awesome Blog Article from DonVanVliet, in which he showcased how an Artificial Intelligence called Dall-e would interpret some Fragrances and olfactory pleassures as Art, inspired me to drive this a topic further. I wanted to find out, how an AI (In this case Midjourney AI) would intepret different topics as a fragrance bottle design...
DonVanVliet 2 years ago
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DALL-E and Perfume – Part 1: Oil Paintings
In this blog series, I want to explore with you what works DALL-E is capable of when you bring the subject of fragrances into play. The topic of oil paintings is to make a start.
What is DALL-E?
DALL-E is a computer program from OpenAI that can generate images from a simple text description. Artificial neural networks are used for this purpose. The artificial intelligence can generate completely...
DonVanVliet 2 years ago
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“Eau de Magnolia” – New Edition of "Miu Miu Twist" Unveiled
Italian fashion label Miu Miu launches "Twist Eau de Magnolia", a new version of the fragrance released in 2019.
The new perfume comes in a spacey getup, a celestial journey back from the moon that incorporates all the colors of the cosmos - a rare intergalactic journey with delicate magnolia, sensual cosmone musk notes and iris. Sparkling notes of pink pepper add an extra...
DonVanVliet 2 years ago
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Historical Parfumo data now at Research
When we started Parfumo Research almost 10 years ago, we could not have imagined that it would lead to the most comprehensive perfume directory. However, there was a time before that! In the early years of Parfumo, we had a similar system for adding new perfumes.
While digging through old backups, I was now able to find this data and successfully integrate it into Research. This now makes it possible...
DonVanVliet 2 years ago
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Update: Overhaul of the Reply Feature
We have made a major update to the reply feature. The changes are mainly technical and are intended to simplify and future-proof many things. But there were also a few feature enhancements.
Replies can now be commentedYou can now vote with an up/down arrowsAll replies can now be reportedEmail notifications about reply comments can be activated in the settings
Since this is a technically very extensive...
DonVanVliet 2 years ago
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150,000 perfumes - We celebrate a new milestone!
With information on an incredible 150,000 perfumes from over 10,000 brands, our community has reached an impressive milestone. By the way, the anniversary perfume was Tabacco Smeraldo by Miguel Matos.
When it comes to questions about fragrances, Parfumo now offers a level of knowledge and detail that is unmatched anywhere in the world. The Parfumo research project started more than 9 years...