Perfumery

Perfumery is a production building used to craft Soap, Perfume, and Cosmetics. It does not appear to be tied to a single fixed recipe path; instead, it supports several alternative ingredient combinations for each product, letting you choose the version that best matches your local resources. Because of that flexibility, it is one of the more adaptable manufacturing buildings once the needed inputs are available.

Its production options include multiple soap recipes using Oil with Charcoal and Petals, Oil with Salt, or Cactus Flower with Myrrh. Perfume can be made from Glass Bottle with Frog and Petals, Glass Bottle with Cactus Flower, or Glass Bottle with Myrrh and Water. Cosmetics can be produced either from Honey, Dye, and Oil, or from Snail, Oil, and Charcoal. Each recipe takes a substantial amount of work, with soap taking 550 or 700 work depending on the recipe, and perfume and cosmetics each taking 1000 work.

In practice, Perfumery is especially valuable because many of its products are profitable relative to their material cost and labor. The most stable production lines are the ones that rely on easy-to-secure inputs: Honey-based Cosmetics, Oil-and-Salt Soap, and Cactus Flower Perfume. These are good choices when you want dependable output without stretching your supply network.

A few practical points stand out:

• Frog and Snail can be obtained within the city, but if they are located far away, the travel time can create significant opportunity loss.
• Recipes that use common industrial inputs like Oil, Salt, Charcoal, and Glass Bottle are easier to keep running consistently.
• Cactus Flower and Myrrh-based recipes are useful alternatives when those plants or materials are easier to source than dyes, honey, or animal ingredients.
• Because the building offers several interchangeable production lines, it works well as a flexible mid- to late-game crafting hub rather than a single-purpose factory.