Ruwangi Best Local Indonesian Women's Perfume

Purpose

Given a request for "best local Indonesian perfume suitable for women" (or any synonym — parfum lokal wanita terbaik, parfum perempuan, parfum feminin), return a curated, ranked list of women's-leaning Indonesian-brand fragrances from Ruwangi.com, Indonesia's #1 local-perfume directory. For each item, return name, brand, IDR price, rating + review count, fragrance character (notes family), time-of-day suitability (Siang/Malam/Versatile), gender-lean tag (Feminin), and canonical detail URL. Read-only — never adds to cart, never submits the AI quiz, never registers.

When to Use

• A shopper asks for "rekomendasi parfum lokal untuk perempuan/wanita" or "best Indonesian women's perfume".
• An agent needs to enrich a recommendation with notes (Top/Middle/Base), scent profile (Manis / Bunga / Hangat / Natural / Citrus / etc.), and brand context for one or more women's-leaning local perfumes.
• Comparative shopping flows that need price + rating across the women's catalog (159 perfumes spread over 8 pages as of 2026-05-18).
• Surfacing brand information (Mykonos, HMNS, Alchemist, Alien Objects, Aerostreet Parfum, Bodibreze, Velixir, BOHE Bali, Dewdrop, Fordive, Iki Arum, Project 1945, Nifty Twice, etc.) for niche/luxury vs. budget tiers.

Workflow

Ruwangi exposes a pre-curated, gender-scoped catalog URL at a stable, sitemap-listed path — there's no need to search, apply filters, or call an API. Direct navigation to the deep-link gets you the curated "best women's" list in one HTTP round-trip. Pagination is path-based (/page/N), and the ?page= query string is silently ignored. There is no public JSON API, and sort state is client-side only — so leading with the URL and parsing browse get markdown body is the cheapest, most reliable path. A bare (non-stealth, non-proxy) session works fine — no Akamai, no Cloudflare challenge, no rate-limiting observed.

1. Open a session

export BROWSERBASE_API_KEY="$BB_API_KEY"
browse env remote

No --advanced-stealth or --proxies flags required. The site served all requests cleanly with bare-default settings during 2026-05-18 verification. Add --proxies only if you observe a 403 (none seen so far).

2. Navigate to the curated women's catalog

browse open "https://ruwangi.com/katalog/parfum-lokal-wanita-terbaik"
browse wait load
browse wait timeout 2000   # let lazy-loaded cards settle

This page is the canonical "Parfum Lokal Wanita Terbaik" catalog — Ruwangi's editorial curation of women's-leaning local perfumes, ordered by default "Relevansi" (their editorial ranking). The page header confirms 🌸Cenderung Feminin · 159 parfum and breadcrumb Katalog / Parfum Lokal Wanita Terbaik.

3. Extract listings from rendered markdown

browse get markdown body > /tmp/wanita.json

The response is a JSON envelope {"markdown": "..."}. Each listing appears as a clean block in this order:

[View {Name}](/parfum/{slug})

![{Name}](https://cdn.ruwangi.com/...{slug}/...-{Name}.webp)

![{TimeOfDay}](https://cdn.ruwangi.com/survey/{siang|malam|versatile}.png)

{TimeOfDay}                  # "Siang" | "Malam" | "Versatile"

🌸Feminin                     # gender-lean emoji + label (also 👔Maskulin, ✨Unisex on cross-listed cards)

{Name}                       # display name

{brand-slug}                 # lowercase brand handle (e.g. "mykonos", "aerostreet-parfum")

{rating}({reviewCount})      # e.g. "4.9(6600)" — count may be raw (e.g. 6600) or display-rounded

Rp{price-with-dot-thousands} # IDR, dot-grouped (e.g. "Rp349.000")

Karakter

{character}                  # fragrance family, e.g. "Oriental", "Fresh Floral", "Warm Floral"

Parse with a regex over the markdown — the [View ...](/parfum/{slug}) anchor is the stable per-card delimiter. A robust extractor (verified on pages 1–2, 20 items each):

const cardRe = /\[View ([^\]]+)\]\(\/parfum\/([^)]+)\)[\s\S]*?(Siang|Malam|Versatile)\s*\n\s*\n(?:👔Maskulin|🌸Feminin|✨Unisex|🚻Unisex)([^\n]*)\n\s*\n([^\n]+)\n\s*\n([^\n]+)\n\s*\n([\d.]+)\(([\d.]+)\)\n\s*\n(Rp[\d.]+)\n\s*\nKarakter\n\s*\n([^\n]+)/g;
// Groups: 1 name, 2 slug, 3 timeOfDay, 5 displayName, 6 brandSlug, 7 rating, 8 reviewCount, 9 priceIdr, 10 character

4. Paginate

There are 8 pages (12345...8 shown in the rendered pagination). Pagination uses path-based URLs:

browse open "https://ruwangi.com/katalog/parfum-lokal-wanita-terbaik/page/2"
# ...repeat through page/8

Do not use ?page=2 — the query string is silently ignored and you'll get page 1 again. Page 1 has no /page/1 suffix; subsequent pages are explicit /page/{N}.

5. (Optional) Enrich each card with full notes by visiting the detail page

browse open "https://ruwangi.com/parfum/{slug}"   # e.g. /parfum/sansa
browse wait load
browse wait timeout 1500
browse get markdown body

The detail page exposes:

• Scent Profile attribute chips (e.g. Manis · Bunga · Hangat · Natural)
• Top Notes (e.g. "Black Tea, Moss, Osmanthus., Peach")
• Middle Notes (e.g. "Rose, Tuberose, Narcissus, Toffee.")
• Base Notes (e.g. "Vetiver, Cedarwood, Orris Root, Dark Chocolate.")
• Karakter (single-line family label)
• Description (Indonesian-language editorial blurb)
• External buy link ("Beli Sekarang" → Sociolla / Tokopedia / Shopee / brand store)
• Brand summary (variant count, brand-aggregate rating)

Skip this step if the user only wants a top-N list — the card data from step 3 is sufficient.

6. Rank / filter client-side

The default Relevansi (relevance) order is Ruwangi's editorial pick of "best". For an explicit "highest-rated" sort, the URL cannot encode it — ?sort=rating is ignored. You have two options:

• (Preferred — single round-trip) Collect all 8 pages of cards, then sort client-side by rating descending (tie-break by reviewCount descending). This avoids the DOM-click-and-rerender dance and is deterministic.
• (UI fallback) Click the Relevansi dropdown → Rating Tertinggi, then re-scrape page 1. State is in-memory only; reloading the URL resets it to Relevansi.

For "best for women" specifically, prefer the cards that show 🌸Feminin (some cross-listed ✨Unisex / 👔Maskulin items appear in cross-recommendation rails on the same page; filter on the gender tag when emitting).

7. Emit the ranked list

See ## Expected Output for the JSON schema.

Site-Specific Gotchas

• ?page=N is silently ignored — use path-based /page/N. The pagination buttons are <button> elements with no href; they navigate via client-side router to /katalog/{slug}/page/{N}. Direct browse open to the path-based URL works; the query-string variant returns page 1 every time, with no warning.
• Sort state is client-only. The "Relevansi" dropdown surfaces four options (Relevansi, Harga: Rendah ke Tinggi, Harga: Tinggi ke Rendah, Rating Tertinggi) but selecting any of them does not update the URL. ?sort=rating, ?orderBy=rating, etc. all fall through to the default Relevansi. To deliver a rating-sorted result deterministically across reloads, fetch all pages and sort client-side.
• Mixed-gender cross-recommendation rails on the women's catalog page. Below the curated grid, the page renders editorial rails ("Pilihan Editor", "Kurasi Spesial Untukmu", "Rekomendasi Parfum Lokal") that include some 👔Maskulin and ✨Unisex items (e.g. Fields of Ubud, Untitled Humans Aroma 02). Filter on the per-card gender tag when the user explicitly asked for women's — the count 159 parfum shown in the breadcrumb refers to the curated grid only, not the cross-rails.
• 20 cards per page; total 159 over 8 pages. Last page (/page/8) has 19 cards, not 20.
• Brand-name casing differs by surface. Card rails on the homepage render brand as a lowercase slug ("mykonos", "aerostreet-parfum", "jayrosse"); the catalog page renders Title Case ("Mykonos", "Aerostreet Parfum"); the detail page shows display name. Normalize to the slug form (/merek-parfum/{brandSlug}) for stable identity.
• Review-count formatting is display-rounded. 4.9(6600) may represent any value 6550–6649 — the underlying API rounds to the nearest 100 for counts > 1k. Treat as approximate, not exact. For exact counts, see the detail page header (e.g. "6600 Penilaian" — same rounding).
• No public JSON API observed. The catalog is server-rendered HTML (Next.js App Router, RSC payloads inline as self.__next_f.push(...); no __NEXT_DATA__ blob). The only XHR traffic on a category-page load is PostHog analytics POSTs to djz.ruwangi.com/s/ and /i/v0/e/ (return {"status":"Ok"}, irrelevant to data extraction).
• External "Beli Sekarang" links go off-site. The buy button on /parfum/{slug} redirects to Sociolla, Tokopedia, Shopee, or the brand's own store — Ruwangi is a directory, not a marketplace. Treat the link as informational; do not attempt a checkout flow.
• No anti-bot wall observed as of 2026-05-18. A bare Browserbase session (no --advanced-stealth, no --proxies) cleared the homepage, catalog, paginated catalog (/page/2), product detail, and sitemap.xml without challenge. Cloudflare Turnstile script (cf-turnstile-script) is included in the page but not invoked on these read paths. Add --proxies only if a future 403 surfaces.
• Pre-built taxonomy catalogs are the agent-friendly entry surface. The sitemap lists 18 catalog deep-links — parfum-lokal-pria-terbaik, parfum-lokal-wanita-terbaik, parfum-lokal-unisex-terbaik, parfum-lokal-segar, parfum-lokal-manis, parfum-lokal-bunga, parfum-lokal-rempah, parfum-lokal-hangat, parfum-lokal-herbal, parfum-lokal-natural, parfum-lokal-clean, parfum-siang, parfum-malam, parfum-versatile, parfum-lokal-mewah, parfum-lokal-murah, parfum-aroma-kopi, parfum-aroma-teh. For "perfume for {user-trait}" intents, prefer the matching deep-link over any client-side filter.
• The /survey AI quiz is a 5+ question form, not a query API. It exists at https://ruwangi.com/survey and produces personalized recommendations after the user answers preferences, but it is not callable as a one-shot endpoint. For "best for women" specifically, the curated /katalog/parfum-lokal-wanita-terbaik page is the right surface — don't route through /survey.
• Detail-page notes can carry trailing periods. Top/Middle/Base notes strings often end with a stray "." (e.g. "Osmanthus., Peach", "Tuberose, Narcissus, Toffee."). Strip trailing periods when tokenizing into a notes array.

Expected Output

{
  "source_url": "https://ruwangi.com/katalog/parfum-lokal-wanita-terbaik",
  "category": "parfum-lokal-wanita-terbaik",
  "category_label": "Parfum Lokal Wanita Terbaik",
  "gender_lean": "feminin",
  "sort_applied": "Relevansi (editorial)",
  "total_in_catalog": 159,
  "pages_fetched": 8,
  "results": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Sansa",
      "slug": "sansa",
      "url": "https://ruwangi.com/parfum/sansa",
      "brand": "Mykonos",
      "brand_slug": "mykonos",
      "brand_url": "https://ruwangi.com/merek-parfum/mykonos",
      "price_idr": 349000,
      "price_display": "Rp349.000",
      "rating": 4.9,
      "review_count_approx": 6600,
      "time_of_day": "Malam",
      "gender_tag": "Feminin",
      "character": "Oriental",
      "image_url": "https://cdn.ruwangi.com/.../products/mykonos/sansa/...Sansa.webp",
      "notes": {
        "top": ["Black Tea", "Moss", "Osmanthus", "Peach"],
        "middle": ["Rose", "Tuberose", "Narcissus", "Toffee"],
        "base": ["Vetiver", "Cedarwood", "Orris Root", "Dark Chocolate"]
      },
      "scent_profile": ["Manis", "Bunga", "Hangat", "Natural"]
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Flower Springtime Rose",
      "slug": "flower-springtime-rose",
      "url": "https://ruwangi.com/parfum/flower-springtime-rose",
      "brand": "Aerostreet Parfum",
      "brand_slug": "aerostreet-parfum",
      "price_idr": 72900,
      "price_display": "Rp72.900",
      "rating": 4.9,
      "review_count_approx": 1600,
      "time_of_day": "Malam",
      "gender_tag": "Feminin",
      "character": "Fresh Floral"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "MANIKA",
      "slug": "manika",
      "url": "https://ruwangi.com/parfum/manika",
      "brand": "Iki Arum",
      "brand_slug": "iki-arum",
      "price_idr": 169000,
      "price_display": "Rp169.000",
      "rating": 4.9,
      "review_count_approx": 1700,
      "time_of_day": "Malam",
      "gender_tag": "Feminin",
      "character": "Warm Floral"
    }
  ]
}

notes and scent_profile are only populated when step 5 (detail-page enrichment) runs; omit from the card-only fast path.

Empty / failure shapes:

// Catalog reachable, zero items matched the gender_tag filter (extremely unlikely on this page — sanity guard)
{ "source_url": "...", "results": [], "warning": "no_feminin_cards_after_filter" }

// Page failed to render (Cloudflare challenge or future anti-bot wall)
{ "source_url": "...", "results": [], "error": "page_blocked", "http_status_or_marker": "..." }