u/Great-Sky7465

It's a bit difficult to get to a notion of "quality control" in perfumery, apart from respecting IFRA standards. I wish there was more talk about the aesthetic impact as such. But everywhere the attitude seems to be "oh well, if you like it it's a good perfume". Do you have any "objective" way at least to test the impact of your fragrances?

What I do is take an experiment, show it to 5 people and see what happens. If 1-2 like it I say it's a niche fragrance, if 3 like it it's a standard fragrance, if 4 like it it's popular fragrance. Is that good? Do you know how the industry goes about it? How do you measure popularity? How do you measure the quality of your experiments at all?