Parfum

Distill vanilla, lavender and violets into perfumes and sell them to customers with firm tastes.

Designers: Marco Ruskowski, Marcel Süßelbeck
Published by: Queen Games
Editions by: Piatnik

Parfum sends you into the Renaissance world of fragrances, where you want to be the most successful perfumer in town. You distill precious essences from ingredients like vanilla, lavender and violets and blend them into your own scents. Each customer has a favorite fragrance, and a flask only sells if it contains what that customer likes, so you read the market and not just your own recipes. You work with action points, draft from the open selection, collect matching sets and roll dice. The art is easy on the eye, the turns are short and the core question is always the same: which scent will sell first, and who gets to the customer before you?

Distill essences from flowers and spicesEach customer wants a specific scentAction points, drafting and dice

Who it's for

You like set-collection games with a pretty theme and short turns, and you want something for two to four people that stays on the lighter side.

Not for you if…

You want heavy strategy or hard-edged conflict. This is a tidy collecting game with a polite level of competition.

Vibe's take

Calm, tidy and slightly competitive. You collect, mix and deliver, but a rival taking your customer at the last second stings.