Affiliate Program

We sell perfume raw materials, perfumery "ingredients", if you want. Perfume ingredients are not perfumes. You need to blend them together to make a concentrate that you will then dilute in alcohol, and only then will you get a perfume. Our customers are artisanal or hobbyist perfumers or just perfume addicts that are curious about how perfumes are made.

We are based in Canada, but we serve customers everywhere in the world, in both french and english. Here are the competitors that we know of:

We say "competitors", but really, they're more like colleagues. And depending on where they are located and their primary language, members of your audience might better be served by some of them rather than us. And we're fine with that. You can even mention them in your content if you want. What we require is that if we send you ingredients you use in your content, we want Contrebande to clearly be identified as your "olfactory art raw material sponsor". Our objective is to get our name and shop out there as champions of the olfactory arts everywhere and for everyone.

So the first step after applying to our affiliate program would be for us to decide on the ingredients we would send you for free. It will be based on your personal tastes and interests. Let's say that we conclude that you want to try out the ingredients we suggest to make a "classical masculine fougère". We would send you these ingredients, either pure in 5ml bottles for solids or 3g jars for liquids, or diluted in alcohol in 10ml spray vials, depending on your level of comfort and the kind of content you want to make.

Let's pretend you go for the pre-diluted sprays to film yourself evaluating each one separately. This spray kit is made available exclusively for Shopify Collabs creators for educational content production. It is not available for sale to the public because we only sell pure ingredients for now. The kit is composed of 10ml sprays of single ingredients diluted in SDA 40B american grade perfumery alcohol. The percentage of dilution along with the CAS number can be found on the little round label of each spray vial. The way to smell the ingredients is to spray them on paper smelling strips that you can find for very cheap on Amazon. You can also cut some strips yourself from odorless thick paper stock. Prepare one strip for each ingredient and write both the CAS number and the percentage on the paper strip to make it easy for you to read it when you film your video because:

  1. the spray vial label is quite small and;
  2. to fully experience a perfumery ingredient, you need to smell it at least four times over a period of 24 hours and if the information is not written clearly on the paper, you will get very confused.

You need to first smell the freshly sprayed strip (shake the smelling strip a little to let the alcohol evaporate), then wait 15 minutes to give it another whiff, then wait 4 hours and smell it again and finally, let it sit overnight to smell it one last time the following day. After smelling each ingredient, it's important to "flush" your nose with fresh odorless air, just like most animals do when they inhale and exhale in rapid succession: they are always making sure molecules don't stay stuck on their olfactory receptor binding sites. Do not use coffee beans. This will only make things worse. Everytime you smell an ingredient, first say the CAS number and the dilution out loud to the camera and then, speak everything that comes through your mind when smelling them. It is possible that you are not able to smell an ingredient at all the first time and it is important to say it if it's the case. And it's even more important to not panic! Some molecules are very hard to detect when your nose is not experienced enough. It's very normal.

The ideal thing to conclude your video with would be to give the discount code for our site (and give our instagram handle).

If any of this suits you, apply to our affiliate program and let's have fun!