Perfumery software
The whole of making a fragrance, on one bench.
Orris Bench is a desktop application for anyone who makes fragrances, from a single perfumer to a house with a team. Build and scale formulas, work from a real ingredient library, stay compliant with IFRA and the EU allergen rules, produce the labels, safety data sheets and product files a product needs, and trace every batch back to the lot of every material. Your data lives on your own machine, or on a shared database when more than one person works from it.
What Orris Bench does
The whole path from a formula on the bench to a bottle a customer can read the label of, in one application. It runs on your own machine, or against a shared database when more than one person works from the same library.
Formulas and versions
Build a formula, scale it to any batch size, and keep every version. Watch the pyramid balance as you work, save a band as an accord to reuse, and compare two formulas side by side.
A real ingredient library
Over 1,500 materials to start from, with CAS, density and composition. Pull the chemistry from PubChem, record where each one sits in the pyramid, and find a substitute when one is out or discontinued.
IFRA compliance
Assess a blend against the IFRA Standards at the category it is sold in, before it is made. The verdict says what it checked, and says cannot verify rather than a false pass.
Allergen declarations
The EU Annex III fragrance allergens named over threshold, in INCI order, straight from the formula that was made, so the carton and the record cannot drift apart.
Batches, traced
A batch number ties the bottle to the lot of every material and the strength that actually came off the balance. Keep the dossier; a question about a bottle can arrive years later.
Labels, SDS and product files
The label, the safety data sheet, and the Product Information File a responsible person has to hold, all generated from the same record rather than retyped.
The weigh sheet
Weigh a batch against a connected balance, guided line by line, so what is recorded is what really went in and at the strength it truly came out.
Suppliers, stock and ordering
Where you buy each material and at what price, what is on the shelf, and what is running low, with a shopping list that already knows what to reorder.
An AI helper, local or hosted
The helper answers from your own library, and you choose the model behind it: one running on your own machine through Ollama, LM Studio or Open WebUI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you already use. Point it at a local model and nothing you ask leaves the machine.
Bringing your existing data across
You do not have to start from an empty screen. Orris Bench can import the formulas, materials and suppliers you already keep, and where the old records are awkward there is an optional hands-on conversion service: send what you have, and get back a library you can work from. Nothing you send is kept once the conversion is done.
It is not on sale yet. If you are weighing up a move, ask about the conversion before you plan one.
How it works
One record runs the length of the bench. Nothing is retyped, and each step reads from the last.
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Start a formula
Add materials from the library and it fills the CAS, the density and what each one is made of. Type a trade name or a chemical name; it knows both.
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See it as you build
The pyramid balances live, the strength updates, and the cost of the batch is there before you commit to it. Save a band you like as an accord.
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Check it before you make it
Assess the blend against IFRA at the category it will sell in, and read the allergen declaration, while it is still cheap to change something.
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Make the batch
Weigh to the sheet on a connected balance. It records what actually came off, not what was planned, and allocates the batch number.
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Label and declare
The label, the ingredient list, the allergen declaration and the product file come out of the same record, in the order the regulation asks for.
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Trace it, forever
The batch number ties the bottle to the lot of every material and the documents behind it. Kept, not deleted, because the question comes late.
Who it is for
Anyone who makes fragrances and has to meet the rules. The software is built so meeting them is part of the work rather than a second job bolted on afterward.
- One perfumer, one machine
- A perfumer working alone at a bench, with the database on your own computer. No server to rent, no account to create, and nothing that stops working when the internet does.
- A house filling its own bottles
- Formulas, batches, labels and the product file in one place, so the documents a product has to carry come out of the record that made it rather than out of a second set of spreadsheets.
- A team on a shared database
- Point everyone at one database on your own network and the whole team works from one ingredient library, one set of formulas and one batch history, with a trail of who changed what.
- A large house, not a different product
- Nothing here assumes a small operation. The same application runs a bench with one person and a floor with twenty. The rules are the same size whoever you are, and so is the record you have to keep.
If you keep formulas in a spreadsheet, work out allergen declarations by hand, and find out a blend was over an IFRA limit after it was made rather than before, this replaces the spreadsheet and the guesswork with one record that the formula, the compliance check, the label and the batch trail all read from.
Years of work somewhere else is not a reason to stay there. Orris Bench imports existing formulas and materials rather than making you retype them, and where a move is awkward there is a hands-on conversion service: we help you get the data across, and we keep none of it once the conversion is done. Get in touch and we will tell you what moving your data looks like before you commit to anything.
Why the name
Orris is the dried rhizome of Iris pallida, and it is the most expensive material in perfumery for a reason that is entirely about time. The rhizome comes out of the ground with no odor of any interest. It is peeled, dried and laid up in a cellar for three to five years, and during that wait an enzymatic process turns odorless precursors into irones: the violet, suede, powdered-iris smell that nothing else does. Standard orris butter runs around 12,000 euro a kilogram.
Nothing about that can be hurried, and you cannot tell by looking whether the wait was worth it. You find out at the end. That is the disposition of this software: a strength is recorded as what was achieved rather than what was planned, a density that is a guess is marked as a guess, and a compliance verdict is allowed to say cannot verify instead of pass.
The flower is violet; the rhizome, after five years, is amber, and the rhizome is the part perfumery uses. That is why this site is the color it is. And bench is where the work physically happens: a flat surface, a balance, blotters, bottles within reach. Not a lab, which claims an institution, and not a studio, which claims art without craft.
Before you spend a euro
The questions worth answering before any software gets near your formulas.
Your data is yours
It lives on your machine, or on your team's server, and never ours. Export all of it to JSON or CSV whenever you like. Nothing here holds your work hostage.
Works offline
It runs against a local database, so it works at a bench with no internet. Only PubChem and the AI helper touch the network, and only when you ask them to.
Yours to keep
Installed on your own hardware, with no cloud service it depends on to run. If you ever stop using it, the database and everything in it is still yours and still readable.
What does it cost?
The price and the license terms are set at launch and shown here. It is desktop software you install on your own machine, so there is no cloud service to keep paying for it to keep working. To be told the day it is ready, the contact link in the footer reaches a person, not a form.
Where does my data live, and is any of it sent to you?
On your own machine, in a database you hold, or on a database your team runs on your own network. Nothing about your formulas, your customers or your orders is sent to us or to anyone else. It is your data, it stays that way, and you can export all of it at any time.
Can I try it before I buy it?
Yes. There will be a way to put your own formulas through it before you decide, because a tool for a bench has to be judged at the bench and not from a feature list.
Can I bring my existing formulas and materials in?
Yes, and you do not have to do it alone. Orris Bench has import mechanisms that bring your existing formulas and materials in rather than making you retype years of work. For a move that is awkward, we also offer a conversion service: we help you get your data across, and we keep none of it once the conversion is done. Get in touch and we will help you move.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes. The database is on your own machine, so it works with no internet at all. The only things that reach the network are optional and asked for: reading a compound from PubChem, and the AI helper, and even the AI helper can run against a model on your own machine, so it works offline too.
Is there AI, and does it send my formulas to a cloud?
There is an AI helper, and where it runs is your choice. Point it at a model running on your own machine, through Ollama, LM Studio, Open-WebUI or anything else that speaks the OpenAI-compatible protocol, and nothing leaves your computer. Or point it at a hosted model if you would rather. Either way it stays off until you ask it something, and it talks only to the endpoint you set, never to us.
How does it keep up with IFRA and the EU rules?
IFRA publishes its Standards as a file, and Orris Bench loads it, so when a new amendment lands you bring it in and every compliance check uses it. The software tells you when a Standard binds rather than leaving you to read a date off a PDF, and it is honest about what it has loaded: a pass says exactly what it checked.
One perfumer, or a whole team?
Either. On your own, it keeps its database on your machine. For a team, that database moves to a shared server on your network, so everyone works from one library and one set of formulas, with a trail of who changed what.
What do I need to run it?
A Windows, macOS or Linux computer. Nothing else: no server to rent, no cloud account to create, no monthly service to depend on. It installs with a single package.
Who makes it, and will it still be here next year?
It is written by a working perfumer to run their own bench. That is the reason it does the things a bench actually needs and skips the things a factory manual assumes, and the reason it is not a side product a larger company will discontinue when it loses interest.
Coming soon
Orris Bench is in active development on a working perfumer's bench. It is not on sale yet, and there is nothing to download today.
When it is ready it installs on Windows, macOS and Linux, as one package on your own computer. There is no cloud account to create and no server to rent, and it is published here, with the price and the license terms set out on the same page rather than asked for by email.
To be told when it is ready, or to ask what moving your existing formulas and materials would look like, get in touch. A person answers. If the move is awkward we will do the conversion by hand, and we keep none of your data once it is done.