Fragrance Cost Calculator

A formula without a cost is a sketch you cannot price. Perfumers usually know the price of a kilo of a material and forget to convert it to the grams sitting in a ten-gram trial. ScentLabs stores the price on the material, in the unit you buy, and applies it to the grams the formula actually uses. Diluted materials are costed on the amount of dilution you weigh, because that is what leaves the bottle, while the pure contribution stays visible so the odour math and the money math do not get mixed together.

The total updates when you change a dose or a price. That sounds small until you are swapping a natural for a base and trying to see whether the brief still fits a client's budget. You do not retype a column of products. You change the line, and the cost per gram of concentrate and the cost of the whole formula move with it. A margin field turns that cost into a suggested selling price, which is the number you need when the formula is a commission rather than a personal experiment.

Currency is yours to choose. Enter prices the way the supplier invoice states them and keep one currency per account so a formula total means something. If a material is bought by the kilo, store the kilo price and let the formula convert to the grams in the trial. Replacing a price later, when a new lot arrives at a different rate, updates every formula that uses the material. Old batch records keep the cost they had when you logged them, so a price change does not rewrite history.

The breakdown by ingredient is the page you export when someone asks why a concentrate costs what it costs. Sort mentally from the expensive lines: a one percent dose of a costly natural can outweigh a thirty percent dose of an inexpensive solvent. The PDF is the sheet you attach to a quote. It is also the sheet you keep when you look back and wonder which material made a particular version unprofitable. Cost is not a separate spreadsheet you update on Fridays. It is a consequence of the formula you are already editing.

Use the number before you scale. A trial that looks reasonable at ten grams can be a poor use of a rare material at five hundred grams, and the calculator shows that before you pour. The free plan includes the same costing as the paid plan on the formulas you are allowed to keep. Fill in prices for the materials you use most often first. An incomplete price list still tells the truth about the lines you have priced, and it makes the gaps obvious instead of hiding them in a total you do not trust.