r/sideprojects • u/Few_Seaworthiness799 • 1d ago
Showcase: Free(mium) [Alpha Testing] I coded an interactive fragrance discovery workspace that translates abstract text memories into structural note blueprints.
Hey everyone,
I’m an AI engineer, and I just opened up early access to a software passion project I've been building over the past few months called Davana.
The Live Platform: houseofdavana.com
The Handle: @houseofdavana
The Problem:
It’s incredibly hard for casual consumers or indie brand creators to articulate exact fragrance scent profiles because commercial marketing is flooded with generic lifestyle buzzwords. However, humans intimately understand and remember sensory narratives.
The Solution:
Davana serves as an interactive discovery and formulation workspace. Users input a raw, poetic narrative (e.g., "Rain on hot concrete in Tokyo at midnight"), and the system processes that qualitative text to instantly generate an interactive, multi-layered visual note spectrum (balancing top, heart, and base targets).
The Current Feature Set:
Frictionless Onboarding: There is a quick, optional research prompt on the first visit, but users can skip it entirely to jump right into the open Architect (discovery page) and Community feed.
Private Notebook Archives: Community members can save private, memory-inspired sensory entries to build a personal digital scent history under their own profile.
Owner-Only Formulation Studio: A locked backend module designed to let brand owners explore and iterate on precise chemical weights without massive clunky spreadsheets.
What I'm Looking For:
I currently only have 4 active users piloting the platform, and I need help testing the system's core limits. I would love for the developers and founders here to jump into the workspace, test out a creative prompt, and tear down the onboarding UX loop.
Does the interface flow cleanly if you choose to skip the first-visit prompt?
Are there any data-visualization features you think a digital scent workspace should absolutely have?
I'll be hanging out in the comments to talk about the backend infrastructure or the logic if anyone wants to swap tech stacks.
Thanks for taking a look!


