Costing
Calculating Perfume Cost Per Bottle
How to figure out what a finished bottle actually costs you — including dilutions, alcohol, and packaging.
Scent Inventory 15. Mai 2026 4 Min. Lesezeit
Why most cost estimates are wrong
The mistake: multiplying gram price of materials by formula percentages and stopping there. That ignores dilution overhead, solvent cost, and packaging.
The full cost stack
- Raw material cost — gram price × grams used, with dilution accounted for
- Solvent cost — alcohol or DPG used to dilute the concentrate
- Packaging — bottle, atomizer, cap, box, label
- Overhead — labor, electricity, rent (if applicable)
Dilution-aware math
If your formula uses 5 g of "Material X 10%", the actual cost is 0.5 g of pure X plus 4.5 g of solvent — not 5 g of X.
Scent Inventory tracks every batch with its real cost-per-gram and resolves this automatically when you finalize a production.