10 Best Perfume Shops in Singapore (2026)
Singapore's best perfume shops and niche fragrance boutiques, from heritage Arab Street perfumeries to bespoke houses and curated multi-brand stores.
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AI image by LocalRankLooking for the best perfume shops in Singapore, not a workshop to make your own scent? This guide covers where to actually shop: independent Arab Street perfumeries with roots back to 1933, homegrown bespoke houses and wellness-driven local labels, multi-brand boutiques curating dozens of niche names under one roof, and the handful of ultra-luxury houses with standalone Singapore boutiques. A few of these shops also run blending classes as a side offering, but they're listed here for their retail shelves and bespoke consultations, not the class. Confirm opening hours, stock and current locations directly with each shop before visiting.
1. Maison 21G
Maison 21G is a French-founded bespoke perfume house whose original boutique opened on Duxton Hill in 2019, before the brand expanded into retail counters at Takashimaya and Marina Bay Sands. Beyond the personalised blending session it is best known for, the boutiques sell a ready-made range - currently nine signature bottlings such as its Sage & Ocean and Oud & Sage pairings, plus discovery sets and hair mists - built from an essence library the house says draws on formulas by French perfumers including Dominique Ropion and Anne Flipo. It suits a shopper who wants a finished, well-packaged bottle rather than a made-to-order session. Its retail footprint has shifted since the Duxton Hill debut, so confirm current boutique locations before visiting.
Orchard & Marina Bay Sands
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2. Sifr Aromatics
Sifr Aromatics occupies a restored shophouse on Arab Street, where third-generation perfumer Johari Kazura sells small-batch fragrance oils from what the boutique describes as a wardrobe of more than 200 aromatic ingredients. The business traces its family's perfume trade back to 1933 and Johari's own training in Grasse, and it stocks alcohol-free oil perfumes, soy-wax candles and essential-oil blends alongside a bespoke consultation service for a fully custom scent. It reads as a more contemporary, gallery-like take on the attar tradition than its Kampong Glam neighbours, with new small-batch releases dropping periodically. It is a strong stop for oil-based and alcohol-free fragrance specifically, rather than eau de parfum sprays.
Kampong Glam
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3. Jamal Kazura Aromatics
Jamal Kazura Aromatics is the original family shop behind Kampong Glam's perfume trade, tracing what its own site calls 'a fragrant legacy since 1933' to founder Hanifa Kazura, whose descendants still run several shopfronts along Bussorah Street and North Bridge Road (his grandson Johari later started Sifr Aromatics nearby as his own venture). It specialises in non-alcoholic attars, oud and perfume oils across floral, oriental and woody collections, plus frosted glass bottles, decorative lamps and aromatic resins such as myrrh and frankincense, with bespoke attar blending available on request. It leans more traditional and Middle Eastern in character than its neighbours and draws heavy tourist footfall, so budget time to sample before buying.
Kampong Glam
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4. Scent by SIX
Scent by SIX is a homegrown label built around scent as a wellness tool, with boutiques at 313@Somerset, Bugis Junction and JEM designed with a calming, spa-like feel rather than a typical retail counter. Alongside personal fragrances such as its 2065 Ujong, which the brand describes as its olfactive take on Singapore decades from now, the shelves run to reed diffusers, nebulisers, pillow mists, hand soaps and car diffusers, all developed, the label says, with international perfumers using sustainably sourced materials. The Somerset flagship anchors a table for scent consultations, working as both a quick perfume stop and a slower home-fragrance browse. It suits a shopper more interested in mood and home scenting than a classic eau de parfum wardrobe.
Somerset (+ Bugis & Jurong)
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5. Escentials
Escentials is the longest-running of Singapore's multi-brand niche fragrance boutiques, run by beauty group LuxAsia since 2017 out of three Orchard Road locations at Paragon, ION Orchard and Tangs. The company says it curates more than 70 prestige and niche houses under one roof, spanning names such as Byredo, Diptyque, Creed, Amouage, Frédéric Malle and Acqua di Parma, alongside skincare, bath and home lines from the same brands. The boutique format leans on in-person consultation rather than self-serve shelves, which makes it a comfortable entry point if you are new to fragrance outside the mainstream department-store names. It is a good one-stop comparison shop before committing to a full bottle elsewhere.
Orchard (Paragon, ION & Tangs)
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6. Amaris
Amaris is a homegrown challenger to the mall beauty-hall format, opened at Paragon in 2019 and now also running a store at VivoCity, with a range the company says spans more than 40 niche and luxury fragrance brands. It has expanded from perfume into home fragrance, body care and skincare, but positions scent as the core of what it calls a 360-degree olfactory experience. As a separate, homegrown operation rather than the same company as Escentials, its brand mix leans slightly different, so the two are worth comparing rather than treating as interchangeable. It suits a shopper hunting for a specific niche name who wants to check more than one curated shelf before deciding.
Paragon & VivoCity
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7. The Scent Parlor
The Scent Parlor is a small Circular Road boutique that describes its founders as 'adventurers in the olfactory world,' hunting down artisanal and indie fragrance labels that rarely reach Singapore through the usual department-store channels. Its shelves mix names such as Nasomatto, Vietnam's d'Annam and France's MAD et Len with Asian indie houses like Rahasya and Démi.Bai, alongside candles, incense and flameless home-scenting pieces. It sits at the more exploratory end of the category: fewer instantly recognisable names than a mall beauty hall, but a better bet if you have already worked through the obvious niche brands and want something genuinely unfamiliar. The boutique also runs occasional fragrance-layering sessions, though browsing the shelves is the main draw.
Circular Road
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8. Fragrance Du Bois
Fragrance Du Bois is a niche luxury house whose Singapore flagship sits at Scotts Square after relocating from a longer run at The Fullerton Hotel, styled with the black-and-gold interior of a Parisian salon. Its own Shades Du Bois line is built entirely around sustainably sourced oud, and the boutique frames a bespoke consultation as part of the experience, where an in-house perfumer walks you through individual scent molecules to build a one-off blend on the spot. Beyond its own line, the Scotts Square store also carries other niche houses including Jeroboam, Jovoy, Parfums de Marly and Xerjoff, so it doubles as a small multi-brand stop. It suits a shopper specifically drawn to oud-forward, resinous fragrance rather than lighter citrus or floral profiles.
Orchard (Scotts Square)
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9. Henry Jacques
Henry Jacques operates what it calls the world's first standalone boutique for the brand, a Parisian-apartment-styled space at Marina Bay Sands that has run since 2017. The French house was founded by Henry Cremona in 1975 and has built its reputation on bespoke perfumery for what it describes as royalty, collectors and connoisseurs, drawing on a library the brand says holds more than 3,000 tailor-made formulas alongside ready collections such as Couture and Les Classiques. This is the boutique to walk into if budget is not the constraint and you want a fully custom fragrance built around your own reference points rather than a pre-set library of essences. It sits at the far luxury end of the category.
Marina Bay Sands
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10. Le Labo
Le Labo brings its lab-styled apothecary concept to Singapore across two boutiques, at Takashimaya in Ngee Ann City and at Marina Bay Sands, after some shuffling of its retail presence here in past years, so it's worth confirming current opening hours before you go. True to the brand internationally, each bottle is freshly compounded to order behind the counter and hand-labelled with your name and the date of blending, rather than pulled pre-mixed off a shelf. The unisex fragrance range runs from widely stocked names like Santal 33 to city-exclusive editions the brand periodically rotates through its Singapore counters. It suits a shopper who wants the ritual of a bottle mixed in front of them, short of a fully bespoke consultation.
Orchard & Marina Bay Sands
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How to choose
- Decide what you actually want before you walk in: a finished bottle off the shelf, a personalised blend built from an existing essence library, or a fully bespoke fragrance composed from scratch with a perfumer. Price, waiting time and the whole retail experience differ sharply between these three, and shops on this list span all of them.
- If you're chasing one specific brand, confirm which store actually stocks it before you travel, since curation differs between multi-brand boutiques like Escentials, Amaris and The Scent Parlor, and mono-brand counters can rotate or relocate. A quick call or Instagram check saves a wasted trip, especially for smaller independent shops without predictable stock.
- Treat oil-based attars and non-alcoholic perfume oils, the specialty of the Kampong Glam houses, as a separate category from alcohol-based eau de parfum. Concentration, how long a scent lasts on skin and how it projects all work differently, so a favourite alcohol-based fragrance is not a reliable guide to how you'll feel about an oil blend.
- Ask exactly what a bespoke session or bottle includes, such as whether your formula is filed for a future reorder, and get current pricing, appointment requirements and lead times directly from the shop rather than an older article, since boutiques here have changed locations and offerings more than once.
- Test on skin rather than paper, and wait: top notes fade within minutes, so a scent's real character, and whether it actually suits your body chemistry, only shows after 30 to 60 minutes of wear. Walk into any of these shops with time to spare rather than a rushed decision.
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Amir Wahab is the founder and editor of LocalRank, an independent Singapore rankings and local guides publication.
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