Terms of Use

Effective and Last Updated: August 26, 2026

1. Agreement and Operator

These Terms of Use ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Signature Scent Studio ("Signature Scent Studio," "we," "us," or "our"), the operator of signaturescent.studio and its related applications and services (the "Service"). By accessing the Service, creating an account, or purchasing a subscription, you agree to these Terms and acknowledge our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you use the Service for an organisation, you represent that you have authority to bind that organisation, and "you" includes that organisation. Nothing in these Terms limits rights that cannot lawfully be excluded, including mandatory consumer rights.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into these Terms. If the law where you live requires you to be older to use the Service or consent to data processing, you must meet that higher age. The Service is not directed to children.

3. The Service

Signature Scent Studio is a fragrance discovery and community platform. Features may include:

  • AI chat, image-assisted discovery, photo identification, and personalized fragrance recommendations.
  • A searchable catalog, fragrance pages, brand, note and accord directories, similarity tools, and scent-building tools.
  • Profiles, public or private shelves and collections, layering combinations, saved preferences, ratings, and reviews.
  • Posts, comments, reactions, follows, public collections, community rankings, and voting.
  • User submissions for fragrances that are not yet in the catalog.
  • Free and paid subscription tiers with different AI usage allowances or features.

Some features are available without an account; others require sign-in, an invitation, or a paid plan. Feature descriptions and usage allowances shown in the Service form part of these Terms. Allowances described as approximate are operational limits, not guaranteed quantities, and may vary reasonably with model cost, message size, abuse controls, and system capacity.

4. Accounts and Security

You may be able to sign in using Google, email and password, or other methods we make available. You must provide accurate information, keep your credentials confidential, and promptly notify us of suspected unauthorised use. You are responsible for activity under your account to the extent permitted by law. You may not sell, transfer, impersonate another person with, or create accounts through unauthorised automated means.

5. Paid Plans, Extra Usage, Trials, Renewal, and Cancellation

  • Prices and payment. Prices, billing interval, currency, included features, and applicable taxes are shown before checkout. Payments are processed by Stripe under its terms.
  • Automatic renewal. A paid subscription continues and Stripe charges the payment method on file at each monthly or annual renewal until you cancel. By subscribing, you expressly authorise those recurring charges.
  • Extra AI usage. Extra usage is a one-time prepaid purchase, not a subscription. It does not expire and is consumed only after an included 4-hour or 1-week allowance is exhausted. Message quantities are approximate because messages vary in token cost.
  • Trials. If checkout offers a free trial, its duration and the price charged afterwards will be shown before you subscribe. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the paid subscription begins automatically. Trial eligibility may be limited to one per person or account.
  • Cancellation and plan changes. You can manage, change, or cancel a subscription through the billing controls on the pricing page and Stripe's customer portal. Cancellation normally takes effect at the end of the current paid period unless the checkout or portal says otherwise.
  • Refunds and withdrawal rights. Except where required by law or stated at checkout, fees already charged are non-refundable and we do not provide credits for partial periods. Any statutory cooling-off, withdrawal, refund, or consumer-guarantee rights remain unaffected.
  • Changes. We may change future prices or plan features with reasonable advance notice where required. A price increase applies no earlier than your next renewal after the notice.

6. AI and Image Features

The assistant and certain recommendations, descriptions, summaries, image captions, and matches are generated or assisted by artificial intelligence. You are interacting with AI, not a human. AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, duplicated, or unsuitable for you. It is provided for discovery and entertainment and is not medical, allergy, safety, legal, financial, or other professional advice.

Fragrance preferences, performance, prices, availability, and product formulations vary. Always verify product details with the manufacturer or retailer. Check ingredient and allergen information, follow product directions, patch test where appropriate, and seek qualified advice if you have a health condition or sensitivity. Do not rely on a photo match alone to identify a substance or product.

You must have the right to submit each prompt and image. Do not upload confidential information, personal information about another person without authority, illegal material, or content you do not have permission to process. Our handling of AI inputs is described in the Privacy Policy.

7. Your Content and Visibility

"Your Content" means material you submit to the Service, including profiles, photos, social links, shelves, collection names and notes, fragrance submissions, ratings, reviews, posts, comments, prompts, and images. You retain any rights you hold in Your Content and remain responsible for it.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable licence to host, store, reproduce, format, adapt, transmit, process, and display Your Content only as reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, and provide the Service, comply with law, and, for content you choose to make public, make it available and promote the Service. This licence lets us use service providers to process Your Content. It does not transfer ownership to us or permit us to use private chat content in advertising.

Public profiles, reviews, posts, comments, votes, and public collections can be seen and copied by anyone. Collections are public by default unless you mark them private. You are responsible for checking visibility before posting. When Your Content is deleted, the licence ends after a reasonable period except for copies in backups, legal records, material already shared by others, and public content reasonably needed to preserve another user's conversation or the integrity of community records.

8. Community Rules and Acceptable Use

You must not use the Service to:

  • Break applicable law, facilitate unlawful conduct, or infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, or other rights.
  • Harass, threaten, exploit, discriminate against, defame, impersonate, or expose personal information about another person.
  • Post obscene, sexually exploitative, hateful, fraudulent, deceptive, or deliberately harmful material.
  • Manipulate ratings, votes, follows, reviews, referrals, subscriptions, usage limits, or other Service metrics.
  • Upload malware, probe or bypass security, gain unauthorised access, interfere with the Service, or burden it unreasonably.
  • Scrape, crawl, harvest, train models on, or use bots against the Service without our written permission, except for standard search-engine indexing that respects our published controls.
  • Reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code or models, except to the extent a restriction is prohibited by law.
  • Use the Service or its output to make high-impact decisions about a person, provide regulated professional advice, or develop a competing dataset or service without permission.

We may moderate, restrict, remove, or preserve content and may investigate suspected violations, but we do not undertake to monitor all content. You can report concerns to the contact address below.

9. Fragrance Submissions and Catalog Information

If you submit a missing fragrance, you authorise us to review the source links and submitted details, use automated tools or agents to verify them, reject or merge the submission, and add verified facts and images to the catalog. Do not submit links or images obtained unlawfully. A submission does not guarantee publication, attribution, or continued availability.

Catalog facts, scores, price estimates, images, notes, accords, release dates, gender labels, and retailer information may be incomplete or wrong and may change without notice. Brand names and product marks belong to their owners. Unless expressly stated, Signature Scent Studio is independent and is not endorsed by or affiliated with fragrance brands, manufacturers, or retailers.

10. Our Intellectual Property

The Service, including its software, design, branding, original text, generated visual assets, compilation, selection, and arrangement, is owned by us or our licensors and is protected by law. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to use the Service for personal, non-commercial purposes. No rights are granted except as expressly stated.

If you send feedback or suggestions, you permit us to use them without restriction or compensation, but we do not acquire ownership of confidential material merely because you contact us.

11. Third-Party Services and Links

The Service relies on third-party infrastructure, authentication, analytics, AI, payment, email, content-delivery, and data providers and may link to retailers or community sites. Their terms and privacy notices apply to their services. We do not control third-party availability, content, pricing, inventory, security, or practices, and a link is not an endorsement. Any purchase from a retailer is between you and that retailer.

12. Changes, Beta Features, and Availability

We may add, change, suspend, or discontinue features to maintain security, comply with law, improve the Service, or respond to provider and operational changes. We will give reasonable notice before a change that materially reduces an active paid plan where practicable and provide any remedy required by law. Beta, preview, experimental, and AI features may change or fail more often than general features. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free availability.

13. Suspension and Termination

You may stop using the Service at any time. Stopping use of the Service does not cancel a subscription; cancel it separately through billing settings. We may suspend or terminate access, or remove content, if we reasonably believe you materially breached these Terms, created risk or harm, failed to pay, abused the Service, or if suspension is required by law. Where appropriate, we will provide notice and an opportunity to appeal or cure the issue. Sections that by nature should survive termination do so, including ownership, accrued payment obligations, disclaimers, liability limits, and dispute terms.

14. Disclaimers

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, THE SERVICE AND ALL AI OUTPUT, CATALOG DATA, COMMUNITY CONTENT, AND THIRD-PARTY LINKS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." WE DISCLAIM IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND DO NOT WARRANT THAT OUTPUT OR DATA IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, SAFE, CURRENT, OR AVAILABLE.

SOME LAWS, INCLUDING THE AUSTRALIAN CONSUMER LAW AND OTHER LOCAL CONSUMER-PROTECTION LAWS, PROVIDE GUARANTEES OR REMEDIES THAT CANNOT BE EXCLUDED. THIS SECTION DOES NOT EXCLUDE, RESTRICT, OR MODIFY THEM. WHERE OUR LIABILITY FOR A NON-EXCLUDABLE GUARANTEE MAY LAWFULLY BE LIMITED, IT IS LIMITED TO RE-SUPPLYING THE SERVICES OR PAYING THE REASONABLE COST OF HAVING THEM RE-SUPPLIED.

15. Limitation of Liability

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, NEITHER PARTY WILL BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, GOODWILL, OR DATA, ARISING FROM THE SERVICE. OUR AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF US$100 OR THE AMOUNT YOU PAID US DURING THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

These exclusions and limits do not apply where prohibited by law or to liability that cannot be limited, including liability for fraud, wilful misconduct, or death or personal injury caused by negligence where applicable. They apply only to the extent reasonable and permitted in your jurisdiction.

16. Indemnity

To the extent permitted by law, you will indemnify us against third-party claims and reasonable direct costs caused by Your Content infringing that third party's rights, your unlawful use of the Service, or your material breach of these Terms. This obligation does not apply to the extent a claim was caused by our conduct, and it does not require a consumer to indemnify us for ordinary use of the Service.

17. Disputes and Applicable Law

Please contact us first so we can try to resolve a dispute informally. These Terms are governed by the laws applicable to the agreement between you and the operator of Signature Scent Studio, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Nothing in these Terms deprives you of mandatory protections or the right to bring a claim in any court or forum available to you under applicable consumer law. We do not require individual arbitration or waive class or representative rights through these Terms.

18. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms for legal, security, operational, or Service changes. We will post the new version and update the date above. For a material change, we will provide reasonable advance notice through the Service or by email where required. Changes apply prospectively. If you do not agree to a material change, you may stop using the Service and cancel a paid subscription before it takes effect.

19. General

If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, it will be limited to the minimum extent necessary and the remainder will continue. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them as part of a reorganisation or transfer of the Service, subject to applicable law. These Terms and the Privacy Policy are the entire agreement about the Service, except for additional terms clearly presented for a particular feature or transaction.

20. Contact

Questions, notices, and reports may be sent to support@signaturescent.studio.

By using the Service after these Terms take effect, you agree to be bound by them.