The field, compared
Nobody can judge six products from six sets of marketing, so this is the same question put to each one, answered only from what its own site says, with the date it was read. Where a site says nothing about a thing, the cell says so rather than guessing.
How to read this
Every cell about another product is what that product's own website said when it was read on 15 September 2026, and nothing else: not a review, not a forum, not what a rival says about it. "Not mentioned" means its site did not say, which is different from "no". A vendor can change a page the day after it is read, so the sources are listed at the foot and are the place to check.
Every cell about Orris Bench is something built and reachable from a screen today. The rows are the questions a one-person fragrance business selling into the European Union and the United States actually asks, in the order they come up.
The table
| The question | Orris Bench | INNORMA | The Aroma Forge | The Molecule Lab | Formpak | PerfuMate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs, and where your data lives | Desktop, on Windows, macOS and Linux. One file on your own machine, or a server you run. | Web app; needs JavaScript. Data location not stated. | Cloud web app. Data location not stated. | Cloud. Data location not stated. | A server product installed by the vendor. | Browser and Android. |
| Works with no internet connection | Yes, entirely. | No. | Not claimed. | No. | Not stated. | Not stated. |
| Formulas with versions and accords | Yes: kept versions with a line-by-line diff, and accords as real sub-formulas. | Sub-formulas and commercial bases; versions not mentioned. | Yes: snapshots, branching, bases and accords. | No formula editor; a formula is uploaded to be checked. | Yes: versions and multi-level formulas. | Formulas; versions not stated. |
| IFRA checked at formula level, with the constituents of naturals summed | Yes, at every category and subcategory, and the verdict names the amendment it was reached under. | Yes, with natural constituents; amendment number not stated. | Yes, IFRA 51. | Yes, IFRA 51; natural constituents not addressed. | Yes; amendment number not stated. | Yes, recomputed as you edit. |
| EU fragrance allergens, all 81 entries, and the 24 Great Britain keeps | Yes, both lists, each market declared against its own. | 81-allergen matrix; Great Britain not mentioned. | An allergen engine; count not stated. | Allergen declaration; count not stated. | Allergen declarations; count not stated. | An EU allergen table; count not stated. |
| Annex II prohibited substances screened | Yes, all 1,760 entries with the Commission's own wording. | Prohibited-substance checks; the annex not named. | not mentioned | Yes, Annex II to VI. | Restricted ingredient lists; the annex not named. | not mentioned |
| Product Information File (PIF) | Yes, under the Article 11 headings, with completeness reported and a PDF. | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned |
| Cosmetic Product Safety Report (CPSR) | Part A drafted under the ten Annex I headings; Part B recorded as the assessor's signed work. | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned | Named as a requirement, not as an output. | not mentioned |
| CPNP and SCPN notifications | Yes, both, each against the formula version it was filed for. | not mentioned | not mentioned | Prepares the concentration data; its site says the submission is done separately. | not mentioned | not mentioned |
| CLP label, the UFI and the poison center notification | Yes: classified, the label at the legal sizes, the UFI by ECHA's algorithm, the notification recorded. | CLP labels claimed. | Pictogram artwork in the label editor; no classification claimed. | Classification data. | Yes, with poison center notifications in i6z. | not mentioned |
| Safety data sheets written from the formula | Yes: sixteen sections, for the EU, Great Britain or the United States. | Yes, with country rules for Spain, Italy, France, Germany and the United States. | No; an upload library. | No; it reads a supplier's sheet. | Yes. | not mentioned |
| MoCRA facility registration and product listing | Yes, written as the SPL file the FDA's system accepts. | not mentioned | not mentioned | No; its site says it does not file either. | not mentioned | not mentioned |
| Batches, lot traceability and recall | Yes, in both directions, with the verdict kept at the time of making. | not mentioned | Batch production with QR codes. | not mentioned | An optional batches and quality control module. | Batch weighing and scaling. |
| GMP records behind the statement | Yes: procedures, calibration, training, deviations, internal audits. | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned |
| Complaints, and the twenty-day clock on a serious undesirable effect | Yes. | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned | not mentioned |
| A supplier's safety data sheet read into constituents | Yes, a scanned sheet included, each figure with the line it came from. | GC-MS report import. | An SDS library, uploaded. | Yes, by an AI parser. | Not stated. | not mentioned |
| Keeping up with the rules | The EU register compared every fortnight with changes shown before applied, a new IFRA amendment loaded from the file, and a dated public tracker. | "Always current." | not mentioned | Monitored daily. | not mentioned | not mentioned |
| A team | On a server you run, each person under their own name, every change attributed. | By contacting them. | Sharing and roles. | Unlimited seats. | Packages. | Not stated. |
| Price for one person | The price and the license terms are set at launch and published here then. | EUR 30, 40 or 80 a month. | AUD 12 a month, or AUD 99 lifetime. | USD 89 for one report, or USD 699 a month. | Not published. | USD 6.99 a month, or a one-time purchase. |
| Free trial | Thirty days at release, everything working. | None. | A free workspace. | None. | None stated. | Free to start. |
| Can you buy it today | Not yet. | Yes. | Yes. | Yes. | By quote. | Yes. |
What none of the others does
Reading down the table, the pattern is that each product is one half of the job. The formula tools stop where the paperwork starts; the compliance platforms have no bench and no batch. The things that appear in one column only are the ones that join the two halves: the IFRA verdict kept with the batch on the day it was made, the batch weighed on a connected balance so the record is what came off the scale, the recall trail that runs from a bottle back to every lot and forward to every stockist, the GMP records the statement rests on, the clock the law starts when a complaint arrives, and all of it in one file on your own machine that opens without us.
Sources
Each product's own site, read on 15 September 2026. The pages read for each are its home page, its pricing page where it has one, and its feature or compliance pages.
- INNORMA: https://www.innorma.eu/
- The Aroma Forge: https://www.thearomaforge.com/
- The Molecule Lab: https://www.themoleculelab.com/
- Formpak: https://www.formpak-software.com/
- PerfuMate: https://perfumate.app/
If a cell about your product is wrong, the contact page reaches a person and it will be corrected with the date of the correction.