Perfumery (Public Release)
Perfumery adds the Perfumery Skill that enables your sims to make functional perfume from flowers.
There are 14 different scents that each have different effects on moods. The effects also get applied to any sim that is talking to a sim that is wearing a scent (although not as strongly). Wearing a scent affects your sim for 4 hours, and it will affect sims they talk with for 30 minutes (since they can smell it too).
You make the perfume on your stove, and each recipe requires 6 flowers of a particular type. The bottles of perfume you make each hold 6 'doses' of scent. You can remove a scent (and it's effects) by bathing or swimming.
At Perfumery level 2, you can Analyze Scent on flower arrangements and flower bushes to gain Perfumery skill. There are also three skill books, and a small Perfume Display that can be placed in retail stores (or anywhere else) that has a purchase picker to buy the perfumes. If you shift click on it and have cheats on, you can also access a Buy Flowers picker that sells all the flowers needed for these scents.
The only scent you can make at first is Deodorant from Snowdrops. Once you gain the Perfumery skill, you learn to make 1-2 new scents every level. With each level, the scent values goes up and the effects tend to be more pronounced.
Scent Recipes
Deodorant Scent
Improves hygiene. This one is not transmitted to others. Unfortunately.
Ingredients: 6 Snowdrop
Skill Level: 0
Base value: §100
Focusing Scent
Adds a +1 Focused buff
Ingredients: 6 Bluebell
Skill Level: 1
Base value: §100
Playful Scent
Adds a +1 Playful buff
Ingredients: 6 Daisy
Skill Level: 1
Base value: §100
Happy Scent
Adds a +1 Happy buff
Ingredients: 6 Tulip
Skill Level: 2
Base value: §300
Energizing Scent
Adds a +1 Energized buff
Ingredients: 6 Chrysanthemum
Skill Level: 2
Base value: §250
Inspiring Scent
Adds a +1 Inspired buff
Ingredients: 6 Lily
Skill Level: 3
Base value: §850
Mourning Scent
Adds a +1 Sad buff
Ingredients: 6 Dahlia
Skill Level: 3
Base value: §250
Flirty Scent
Adds a +1 Flirty buff
Ingredients: 6 Rose
Skill Level: 4
Base value: §600
Angry Scent
Adds a +1 Angry buff
Ingredients: 6 Snapdragon
Skill Level: 5
Base value: §300
Calming Scent
Adds a +1 Focused buff, removes all stress
Ingredients: 6 Christmas Rose
Skill Level: 6
Base value: §350
Friendship Scent
Adds a +1 Happy buff, increases speed of relationship building (similar to Gregarious trait)
Ingredients: 6 Crocus
Skill Level: 7
Base value: §550
Evil Scent
Adds a +1 Confident buff, Adds temporary Evil trait (similar to Begonia trait from flower arranging)
Ingredients: 6 Begonia
Skill Level: 8
Base value: §650
Confident Scent
Adds a +2 Confident buff
Ingredients: 6 Bird of Paradise
Skill Level: 9
Base value: §1200
Eternal Scent
Adds a +2 Focused buff, freezes motives for duration of buff.
Ingredients: 6 Orchid
Skill Level: 10
Base value: §6500
The base value of each recipe is based on the cost of the flowers needed. The final value of the bottles of scent is affected by the quality of the final product, which is affected by Perfumery skill and the mood of the sim making it, as one would expect.
At Perfumery Skill level 7, you have a chance to create a Masterwork. Once you reach level 10, you will earn 'The Nose' reward trait, which ensures that all of your scents are Excellent quality and greatly increases your chances of creating a Masterwork. At this level, making a bottle of perfume worth tens of thousands of simoleons is quite possible, so maybe you can afford a professional gardener now (in case I didn't mention it, you might want to grow your own flowers for maximum profit. The retail cost of Orchids is about §225 each).
OBJECTS INCLUDED
14 different bottles of scent
Perfume Display for retail sales
Skill Books
Making Scents
Put the Petal to the Metal
Scents and Scentsibility
There's also a custom cooking pot that is (automatically) used when making scents.
PACK REQUIREMENTS
Requires Seasons, Outdoor Retreat
CHANGE LOG
1.0.0, 4/28/2022, Initial Patreon Preview
1.0.1, 5/3/2022, Initial Public Release, removed flowers from debug purchase picker that aren't needed in recipes
1.0.2, 5/9/2022, Fixed issue with blank strings in non-English localizations, added French translation from Luniversims.
1.0.3, 5/11/2023, Increased buff from focused perfume to match others, enabled use off the grid.
1.0.4, 5/3/2025, Now works on all range tops.
1.0.5, 5/4/2025, Fixed issue with apply scent animations
1.0.6, 7/1/2025, Patch fix for Enchanted by Nature, Plopsy support for crafted perfume
1.0.7, 10/2/2025, Various tuning fixes reported by BE
1.0.8, 10/21/2025, Replaced missing animation
Chinese Translation by ABonnie
Comments (25)
does this mod still work?? I want to know if it does before downloading
It did the last time I played a sim that used it about two weeks ago, so I'd assume it still works. Let me know if you run into any problems.
Hi! I’ve just finished a Polish translation of your mod and wanted to share it with you. Here’s the link: https://www.patreon.com/ToomuchPL/posts/perfumery-169331583?collection=2377273 If you’d like, feel free to add it to your mod description so Polish players can find the translation more easily. Thank you for your amazing work and for sharing your mods with the community!
does this conflict with Loomi's signature scent mod?
Not that I know of. I haven't tried their mod, but it looks like they add buffs for the scents. So does this. If you have both on the same sim at once, I'd expect that you'd get both effects at once, however that would work out.
where do i find the perfume display for retail in build mode? what is it called and what category is it under?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/143650631?collection=1836777
My Spanish translation for the Simsonian Library mod, which you can find on my Patreon
Thank you for this mod, I enjoy having my sims making their own perfume. However, I've found that I am unable to sell my sims perfume at their small business lot. For some reason, no one purchases them from any of the Businesses and Hobbies selling tables. Is this mod not compatible or am I doing something wrong?
Hello, I will check that out. I have a drug store small business lot where I have these for sale, but now that you mention it, I'm not sure that I've ever seen anyone buy them. It might be that a tag is missing on the perfume bottles...I'll check the game tuning and see what it's looking for and release an update with a fix if needed. I definitely want to be able to sell them at a small business myself! Thanks for the feedback, and I'll look into why that might not be working!
Сделала перевод к моду, вот ссылка на него: https://boosty.to/pumpkin4u/posts/e5333e4f-2cb7-4373-9eae-9e013991e44f?share=post_link Большое спасибо за этот мод! Мне понравилось с ним играть.
Hi. I tried to make all possible perfumes in the game with your mod. But I didn't see "Mourning Scent" in the list. I have all the ingredients.
The scent was found, but they are not at skill level 3, but at level 6.
Omgggg I was looking everywhere for perfume stuff 🥳🥳. Thank you :D
I'm having a problem: when I tell my Sims to put on perfume, the animation cancels and they don't do it. I've translated it into Spanish if you're interested. 💜💜
I will check that -- do you remember which type of perfume? Just also occurred to me that the animation might have come from a specific pack that I forgot to list as required -- I'll check that too.
Hey there! Obsessed with this one, reminds me of some of the cc from sims 3. I was wondering, would it be possible to get more sale options for the perfume, such as being able to sell it on plopsy like other craft items? Thank you for your work either way!
Sure! Honestly, thought I'd added Plopsy support already, but it appears that was for a different mod. I'll put it on the next update list!
Yay an update 💪🏾✨
Hello! First of all, thank you so much for this mod - I am enjoying it so far and I love seeing my sims run around with the various buffs. The mod works fine on older stoves, but I notice the option to make perfumes do not show up on the newer stoves (the ones after Realm of Magic)? I have the Just like Nana Used to Make stove in my current active household, and I am not seeing the perfumery option on it. The same option do not show up for stove from Life & Death either. I am not sure if this is by design?
It's been awhile, so I looked back at the code, and it seems that I set it up to add the Perfumery menu to specific stove objects (all there were at the time), instead of having it just add it to 'stove like things'. So for now, it's by design, though I think I'm going to change the design. I think I realized this about a year ago and forgot, lol. I'll put changing that to be more flexible on the to do list for this mod and change it to just add to all stove-like objects. Thanks for the feedback, and the reminder that I need to do this, lol!
Hey, does this mod still work? Looks great, as do so many of your mods, but I can't seem to find a list or post stating which mods are being regularly updated? Thanks in advance and keep up the good work :)
Yep, it should still work, and I'm trying to keep them all up to date right now. However, I'm at the point when I have too many mods with too many features to check them all through every patch. So after every patch, I try to check the same day using the Better Exceptions mod checker. If any errors are thrown, then I'll see if it's something I can fix quickly (within an hour or two) or whether it will take me a while. In those cases, I try to get something posted here about anything that's broken. Then over the next week or so I try to give each of my mods a try, run through their features, and make sure nothing silently broke. And then i rely on users reporting anything that's broken, and I usually do the same calculation: How bad is it? Can I fix it quickly? then post if that seems appropriate. If there's something like an icon missing or other purely cosmetic issue, I fix it locally here and include it with the next update (which may be several smaller things like that combined into one new version). I tried the Perfumery mod within the last few weeks, so as far as I know, it's working. :)
Does this work off the grid? I looked to make some in my game today and it said not available off the grid. If it doesn't could you possibly change this to work? Thanks!
I wasn't actually sure until I checked the code, since I didn't remember setting it up either way. It looks like it currently requires power. I will fix that. :)