Best Perfume Subscription Boxes

Scentbird is practically synonymous with the fragrance subscription service—and, yes, the company lives up to the hype.

First, you can take a quiz to discover your personal scent profile and which of Scentbird’s most beloved perfumes fit your style. Upon activating your subscription, you’re free to browse its fragrance library of more than 500 designer fragrances (your favorite beauty supply or department store can’t certainly compete with that number!).

Select your fave from designers including Tom Ford, Prada, Acqua di Parma, and Tocca, and you'll receive it in an 8-milliliter vial along with a reusable atomizer. The vial gives you about a 30-day supply of fragrance, and you can choose a new one every month to load into your atomizer.

You can also rate your selected scents, allowing Scentbird to figure out exactly what strikes your fancy with monthly suggestions. Think of the company like your virtual assistant, here to help you along the journey of discovering your signature scent. 

Scentbird plans start at about $16 a month for one product per month.

If you really want to get the most beauty bang for your buck, look to Perfume.com’s Fragrance of the Month. The most cost-efficient subscription service on this list, Fragrance of the Month offers subscribers monthly fragrances from a catalog of more than 500 designer brands that include Givenchy, Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana, and more.

Choose whichever suits you, or, if you can’t make up your mind, have one of Perfume.com’s fragrance experts choose for you. Every four weeks it’ll arrive in a handy travel atomizer for you to spritz away to your heart’s content. (With around 8 milliliters of product, each atomizer will provide about 120 sprays.) 

With both traditionally masculine and feminine scents available, you can begin a queue of perfumes, with one sent out to you each month. Switch up your choices or cancel at any time. 

Perfume.com’s Fragrance of the Month costs about $15 per month.

Who doesn’t love having options? Well, the options are seemingly endless at Scentbox. Scentbox offers more than 850 different fragrances with which you can fill up your subscription box.

First, sign up for either their standard or premium subscription; the premium option gives you access to luxury perfumes from designers that include Chloe, Balenciaga, and Bvlgari, as well as extra, sweet-smelling goodies like bath bombs. Then, take a scent profile quiz to tailor your recommendations. With its expert selects, there’s no real reason to sort through its wide array of perfumes—unless you want to, that is. 

Once a month, you can choose from any offerings in the fragrance library, and a 30-day supply will be sent to you in a refillable travel atomizer (which holds about 8 milliliters of product). No need to fear hating your selected scent: Scentbox offers free exchanges with their monthly subscription.

Scentbox’s standard subscription costs about $16 a month, while its premium subscription is roughly $21 a month. To really splurge, try the Platinum plan for about $30 a month.

If you want your fragrances without a side of parabens, phthalates, or toxic chemicals, Skylar has you covered. This cosmetics company formulates all of its fragrances with botanical-based, vegan, and safe-synthetic ingredients for hypoallergenic and clean perfume scents. Even the packaging is thoughtfully and ethically made, with recyclable materials from eco-friendly suppliers.

While you can purchase fragrances (and body wash, lotion, and more) à la carte, Skylar’s perfume subscription is the highlight. After taking a short scent profile quiz, Skylar will recommend a perfume they think is suitable for you. And there are no sample spritzers here: Your selected perfume will come in a handy rollerball bottle.

Each month, you’ll receive a new fragrance suggestion, but if it doesn’t sound right for you, you can choose any other rollerball from Skylar’s extensive gallery of original scents. All are fresh, versatile, and can easily be layered, so you’re bound to love whichever arrives at your door. And if you really love it, the subscription comes with about 20% off all other Skylar purchases, so you can score a full-size bottle of your favorite fragrance at a discount.

Skylar Scent Club costs roughly $20 a month.

Are the perfumes that litter the countertops of department stores too mainstream for your unique sense of style? Then consider Olfactif: This perfume subscription service offers up out-of-the-box niche fragrances that hail from perfumers across the globe. If you’re looking for a fragrance that’s unusual and nuanced—a scent that’s truly signature—you’ll likely find it here.

First, choose from a one-, three-, six-, or 12-month subscription and whether you’d like to receive women’s/unisex fragrances, traditionally masculine scents, or both. Then, on the first of every month, three new perfumes (that you probably have never heard of before) will be delivered to your door in 2-milliliter-sized vials. Think complex scent stories that feature possible notes of jasmine, orange blossom, suede, tolu balsam, fig, patchouli, blackcurrant buds, and black pepper. 

In case you fall in love with any of the included fragrances, your subscription includes roughly a 20% discount on full-sized featured bottles, as well as about 10% off all other full-sized bottles.

Olfactif is priced at about $20 a month, or roughly $58, $116, and $228 for three-, six-, and 12-month subscriptions respectively. Its deluxe collection (which includes six vials in both feminine and masculine scents) is priced at around $38 a month, or approximately $111, $221, and $433 for three-, six-, and 12-month subscriptions respectively.