The Apple Watch App

Orrique has a small companion app for Apple Watch. It follows the same daily state as Today on your phone: an active tracking session comes first, then your latest logged wear, then today’s prepared pick. From your wrist you can log a wear, rate today’s focused entry, pick a different scent, log a formula, and run a live tracking session with check-ins. The watch face complication follows that adaptive focus and opens the app when you tap it.

In short

Use the watch for fast capture: one tap to log the wear you are putting on right now, and let your iPhone do the saving and syncing. The watch app and complication are free, no Pro needed.

When to use this

Reach for the watch app when your phone is not in your hand but you still want to capture what you are wearing. Common moments:

• You just sprayed on today’s pick and want to log it before you forget.
• You want to wear something other than the suggested pick and log that instead.
• You want to follow a scent through the day with a live tracking session, tapping a quick check-in when it shifts from top notes to heart to base, or when you get a compliment.
• You want active tracking, what you wore, or today’s pick glanceable on your watch face.

The watch app is meant for quick capture, not browsing. For full details, editing, and history, use Orrique on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac.

Before you start

You need an Apple Watch paired to your iPhone with the Orrique watch app installed. The watch app installs alongside Orrique by default. If you do not see it, open the Watch app on your iPhone, scroll to the available apps, and install Orrique from there.

How to use it

Use the daily focus

See tracking, your latest wear, or the prepared pick in one place. Use the adaptive Today focus

Log a different scent

Choose from a trimmed collection list, favorites first. Log a different scent

Track live

Follow a scent through the day with check-ins. Track a wear as a live session

Complication

Put your current daily state on your watch face. Add the watch face complication

Open the watch app

Tap the Orrique icon on your Apple Watch Home Screen. The app opens to the Today screen, which is its home base. Use the Digital Crown to scroll.

Use the adaptive Today focus

The Today screen gives its main space to the most useful state available:

1. A live session you are currently tracking.
2. Your latest complete wear from today, including the layers of a formula.
3. Today’s prepared pick when you have not worn anything yet.

Before a wear, the pick shows its name, brand, scent family when known, and a bottle image or symbol in the scent’s color.

1. To log it, tap “Log wear”.
2. A brief green checkmark and a light haptic confirm it was logged. The confirmation shows an “Undo” button for a few seconds; tap it to remove the wear if you tapped by mistake.

When you tap Log wear, the Watch shows Queued for iPhone. The command travels through Apple’s WatchConnectivity service to the paired iPhone, and the iPhone records the wear using your usual settings for that scent: the sprays, zone, and occasion you most often use for it. If that scent has no history yet, it falls back to your default sprays and default occasion from Settings on your phone. You cannot change sprays or zone on the watch itself. The Watch does not write the journal directly to iCloud.

The queued wear immediately becomes the Watch focus, so the screen does not jump to another recommendation while the phone is saving. Once the complete phone update arrives, the confirmed Diary event replaces the queued copy. Tap Rate this wear to give that exact same-day entry a rating. Other same-day entries remain under Earlier.

Log a different scent

If you want to wear something other than the pick:

1. On the Today screen, tap “A different scent”.
2. A list titled “Log a scent” appears with your collection. Favorites are listed first, then everything else by name.
3. Tap any scent to log it. The list closes and you see the same checkmark confirmation.

Log a saved formula

If you have built layering formulas, you can wear one straight from your wrist.

1. On the Today screen, tap “A formula” (it appears only when you have wearable formulas synced).
2. A “Formulas” list appears, favorites first.
3. Tap one to log the whole blend. The list closes and you see the checkmark confirmation.

Track a wear as a live session

Tracking follows a scent through the day so you can note how it changes.

1. On the Today screen, tap “Track this wear” to start a session for the pick.
2. The tracked scent takes over the Today focus with its running timer. Tap it to open the Tracking screen.
3. On the Tracking screen, tap a check-in button as the scent changes or as you react to it. Each tap adds a check-in, gives a quick haptic, and keeps you on the screen so you can log several through the day.
4. Tap “Add a note”, dictate or scribble a short note, then tap “Add” to save it.
5. When you are done, tap “End session” and confirm. The wear is saved, and a brief “How did it wear?” prompt appears so you can rate it with one star tap (or skip). The same prompt appears when you end a tracked wear on your iPhone.

With Reduce Motion on, the active tracking mark stays still and confirmations fade instead of pulsing or scaling. With Reduce Motion off, the tracking mark pulses only while Orrique is active on screen and stops when the watch app is inactive. The timer and every check-in remain available.

The six check-in buttons fall into two groups: where the scent is in its life, and how you are reacting to it.

Check-in	What it marks
Top notes	The opening, the first minutes after you apply
Heart notes	The middle, once the opening settles
Base notes	The dry-down, what lingers late in the day
Compliment	Someone noticed and said something
Too strong	It is reading louder than you want
Headache	It is giving you a headache

Tracking owns the Watch focus

While a session is active, the Watch does not place an unrelated pick below it. This is on purpose: ending the session records the wear, so a second Log button for the same focus could count it twice. Open the tracking focus for check-ins or to end the session.

Skipping the note

The “Add” button stays disabled until you have entered text. To skip the note entirely, just swipe down or step back out of the sheet. Notes use dictation or Scribble on the watch, which is slower than typing, so keep them short.

If you started tracking from your iPhone, the same session shows up on the watch, and ending it on either device ends it on both.

Rate yesterday’s wears from the watch

When a wear is waiting on its morning-after (next-day) rating, the Today screen shows a “Rate yesterday” banner with how many are waiting.

1. Tap the “Rate yesterday” banner.
2. For each wear, tap a star (1 to 5) to rate it. The row clears as you rate it, and the rating syncs to your iPhone.
3. When the last one is rated, you return to Today.

This is the same next-day rating you can give on the phone and in the macOS menu bar, now reachable from your wrist in the morning.

Earlier today

The latest wear owns the main focus. Any other entries already logged today appear under “Earlier”, so the current event is not repeated in a second list.

Add the watch face complication

The complication puts the current adaptive state on your watch face: Tracking, On you today, Today’s formula, or Today’s pick.

1. Touch and hold your watch face, then tap “Edit”.
2. Swipe to the complications screen and tap an empty complication slot.
3. Choose Orrique, then “Today’s Scent”.

The complication is offered in the circular, corner, inline, and rectangular styles. Tap it any time to open the Orrique watch app on the Today screen.

What to expect

• After you tap “Log wear” or pick a scent from the list, the watch shows a checkmark and the scent name, then sends the wear to your iPhone, which saves it to your diary. The watch confirms right away rather than waiting on the phone, so logging feels instant.
• Starting a session makes Tracking the Watch focus immediately. If your phone was already tracking a different scent, starting one from the watch replaces it. If your phone is already tracking the same scent you picked, it keeps the existing session running so you do not lose the elapsed time or check-ins.
• Check-ins you tap during a session are added to that session. They are saved into your diary entry when the session ends, the same way the Lock Screen Live Activity works on your phone.
• The complication follows active tracking, the latest logged wear, or the day’s pick. It uses the scent color where one is available and gives active tracking the highest Smart Stack relevance. Each phone update also prepares the following day’s pick, so a non-active focus can switch at local midnight without waiting for the phone to open.
• Tapping the complication only opens the app to Today. It never logs a wear on its own. You always confirm a wear with the Log button.

Good to know

How the watch reaches your other devices

The watch app talks to your iPhone directly, not to iCloud on its own. Wears you log on the watch are sent to your phone, and your phone is what saves them and syncs them through iCloud (if you use iCloud sync). So your watch logs reach your other devices through your phone.

• The watch keeps a local copy of today’s structured wears, the current and following picks, ratings, formulas, and its trimmed collection. The complication keeps a separate compact snapshot, so a high-priority complication refresh cannot replace the Watch app’s complete data. If your phone is not reachable, a non-active focus can still make the prepared midnight change. Older data does not pretend to be today’s recommendation and asks for a phone refresh instead.
• The collection list on the watch is a trimmed version for quick logging. It shows up to 60 of your wearable scents, favorites first then by name. The watch app is not meant for browsing your diary or full fragrance details; use your iPhone, iPad, or Mac for that.
• A Watch action is queued for delivery to the paired iPhone. The Watch confirms the queue immediately, not the final journal save. WatchConnectivity keeps background commands for delivery when possible, and the iPhone performs the actual save. The iPhone remembers recently handled Watch actions across app relaunches, so a repeated delivery does not log or apply the same action twice. Adjust sprays, zone, or occasion in Settings on the phone, or edit the entry later on a larger device.
• The complication, the watch app, and live tracking on the watch are watchOS only. Your iPhone and iPad use widgets and Lock Screen Live Activities for similar quick actions instead of watch complications.
• VoiceOver is supported. Each action carries a spoken label (for example “Log a wear of [scent]”), so you can log and track from your wrist by voice.

If something looks wrong

Almost every watch hiccup comes down to the same thing: the watch could not reach your iPhone. The fix is the same in each case. Bring the watch near your iPhone, make sure the phone is on and unlocked, and open Orrique on the phone so it can send a fresh update.

• The watch shows “No pick yet”, or the complication shows “Open Orrique”: open Orrique on your iPhone so it can sync the current daily state to the watch.
• A wear you logged on the watch has not appeared in your diary on the phone: open Orrique on the phone with the watch nearby so the queued log can deliver.
• The collection list or daily focus looks out of date: the watch is showing its last received copy. Open Orrique on the phone to push a fresh update.
• The complication is not refreshing: opening Orrique on the phone refreshes its adaptive snapshot.

If a symptom persists after the phone and watch have been together with Orrique open, see Troubleshooting.

Related articles

TodayWhere the daily pick comes from and how to shape it.

DiaryWhere your watch logs land, with full editing and history.

Widgets, Siri, and ShortcutsThe iPhone and iPad equivalents of the watch's quick actions.

iCloud and SyncHow wears reach your other devices through your phone.

SettingsSet the default sprays and occasion the watch falls back to.