It sounds like there is an issue with your storage not being able to stock luxuries, so the perfumes get "lost".
Have you tried building some kind of luxury-specific storage to see if that help? Are you using other mods that affect storage capacity in any way? Which version of MM8 are you using? The RC3 version?

yes, RC3. No not built anything much as yet, only got a few settlers, new game. They should appear in the town inventory surely, simply because they have been created. Only in the perfumery are they counted. Have put a post on BlackLiquid surmising it might be a bug. I shall go back in and see what luxery specific storage there is and will try that. Thank you Vrayna :)

aha!! I built a luxury warehouse - one of those thin jobbies, and the perfume got transported to there, and from there to the trading post and also gets mentioned in the town inventory now.

Thankyou again Vrayna, I shall have to go up to BL and modify my post now :)

If I remember right, things appear in the town inventory after they have been stored only, not before. So if they get "lost" on the way, you will see them in the building's production window but not the townhall's statistics.

There's definitely something not totally right though. Most "general" barns should be flagged to store everything, including luxuries. The ones from the CC side sould do at least. If the one you built didn't work for luxuries, we need to know which one it was, so that flag can be added to it. ;)

I built a small barn first of all - possibly the forest deep one, but I also built a seeds trade depot and told it to store 20 perfumes, but nothing came and also a town arrival which inventory I expected would show the amount of perfumes ready, but it did not.
Have built another luxury barn in another map which is well established and with several barns I think, and three trade depots, but again, the perfume did not register anywhere until I put the luxury barn in. :)

Yeah, had a chat about that, and luxuries are designed to only go into specific luxury storage, like the luxury barns / cellars, and tavern-kind of buildings.
I was wrong about my assumption that they'd also go into general storage. So nothing broken there.

As a side note, if you spot more oddities in MM8, please post into the MM8-RC3 bug report thread, or in the MegaMod section of the forum. It's the one we check the most dilligently while hunting down all the stuff that needs fixing in the mod ;)

will do Vrayna - not ever reported a 'bug' before and was frazzled as the system would not let me login, locked me out and I had to create a new account. Glad you sorted it though. Appreciated :)