Perfecto was founded by electronic music record producer & DJ Paul Oakenfold in 1989. At the time, house music & the Balearic style was beginning to break into the mainstream and Oakenfold was working as an A&R for Champion Records. The label was distributed through Warner Music through the 90s until Oakenfold moved distribution to Mushroom UK in 1998. Following the acquisition by Warner Music of Mushroom UK, the catalogue since 98 transitioned to WMG and a couple of years later Perfecto began to operate & release independently until it became a sublabel of Armada Music in 2010.

Perfecto has released singles and albums from such artists as BT, Tilt, Robert Vadney and Carl Cox, as well as mix albums from Sandra Collins, Seb Fontaine, DJ Skribble, and Oakenfold himself. The most well-known of their artist album releases is A Lively Mind, by Oakenfold.
The brand has 4 sub labels:
Perfecto - Trance
Perfecto Black - Progressive House
Perfecto House - House
Perfecto Fluoro - Psy-Trance