Ryan So
Founder and editor. Collector of discontinued and vintage fragrance, based in Hong Kong.
Long-standing collector and trader of discontinued, vintage and export-market fragrance, specialising in the Asian second-hand market. Sources bottles directly and documents batch codes, reformulation history and packaging variants from physical stock rather than published marketing material.
Why this matters
Most fragrance writing is produced by people who have never handled the bottle. The notes on this site are recorded from stock that has passed through the editor's hands, which is the only way to observe things like fill level, evaporation, packaging revision and code placement first-hand.
Independence
The editor has a commercial interest in the second-hand fragrance market. That is disclosed here deliberately. Perfume Codex carries no advertising and no affiliate links for the fragrances it documents, and no brand can pay for an entry or for a favourable correction.