Custom fragrance development and manufacturing - no minimum order
Whether you have a formula or just a vision, we create custom fragrances and bring them to market. We handle development, compounding, and manufacturing at low MOQs and budgets that work for new founders. Most manufacturers won't work below a certain spend or order size. We do. Work with us from the first prototype through to finished bottles ready to sell.
What does a custom fragrance cost?
Fragrance development doesn't have a fixed price because every project is genuinely unique. Think of it like building a house. Size, complexity, materials, and the application all change the cost dramatically.
We work backwards from your budget, not the other way around. We develop a material palette and formulation method that makes sense for your target spend, rather than handing you a preset price and asking you to fit your vision into it.
This is how we work with budgets most manufacturers reject, giving founders an actual path forward.
How it works
Fragrance development happens in stages. We start with a first draft prototype. From there, we work out how many iterations you'll need to hit your brief - could be one more, could be five. Once you've approved a final direction, we move to manufacturing, where costs depend on the materials, complexity, and maturation time required for your final product.
What shapes the cost?
MATERIALS
Some materials cost £100 per kilogram, some more than £100,000 per kilogram. Some formulations require months of maceration in alcohol. Rare and expensive materials are unique but don't necessarily mean better, that's subjective, that's why building a palette around a budget and brief is essential.
COMPLEXITY
More ingredients mean more iteration. We test the ratio combinations of each material - more variables mean more batches, more time. A five-ingredient composition could take weeks. A thirty-plus ingredient fragrance may take months or more.
TIME
Depending on the brief, formulations can take anywhere from weeks to years to formulate. We have methods to accelerate development, but tighter timelines mean fewer iteration rounds and less room to explore unexpected directions.