Your Collection

Your Collection is where every fragrance you own, have tried, or want lives. This article covers adding a scent, browsing and searching your shelf, organizing it into shelves and a wardrobe, setting ownership statuses, tracking the bottles and samples you actually have, and packing a smart capsule for a trip.

In short

A scent’s status (Owned, Samples, Tried, Wishlist, Empty) is set by the containers you record for it, so keep your bottles and samples current and the rest of the Collection sorts itself out.

Add a scent

Search, scan a label, or type it by hand in three quick stages. See Add a fragrance.

Browse and search

Grid or list, status tabs, sort, and filters. See Browse and Search and filter.

Track containers

Record the bottles and samples you actually have. See Track your bottles and samples.

Wardrobe and trips

Group bottles onto shelves and pack for a trip. See Shelves and the Wardrobe.

When to use this

Open the Collection tab whenever you want to:

• Add a new bottle, sample, or wishlist scent.
• Find a fragrance by brand, name, or note.
• See what you own versus what you have only tried or want.
• Organize bottles into shelves (a bedroom dresser, a travel bag, a display cabinet).
• Keep track of the physical containers you have, including ones you have used up or let go.
• Plan which scents to bring on a trip.

How to use it

Tap the Collection tab to see everything. Each fragrance appears as a card showing its bottle photo (or its brand initials on a softly scent-tinted background). Tap any card to open that scent’s full detail page.

Add a fragrance

Tap the plus button in the top-right of the Collection. The Add screen walks you through it in three stages.

1. Identify the scent. Type a brand and name to search, scan a bottle or box label, or just enter the details by hand.
2. Confirm the match. Review the brand and name that were found, with a preview of the bottle.
3. Personalize. Add a photo, fill in notes and accords, set a rating or mark it a favorite, choose its status (Owned, Tried, or Wishlist), and add bottle details like size and price.

Tap Save to add it. The scent appears in your Collection right away.

If you do not have a connection or the catalog does not recognize a scent, you can always add it by hand and fill in whatever you like.

Already in your shelf?

Orrique keys a fragrance on its brand and name, so adding the exact same brand and name twice updates the existing scent rather than creating a duplicate. To keep two bottles of the same scent, add a second container to the one you already have (see below) instead of adding the scent again.

Browse as a grid or a list

Use the secondary actions menu in the Collection toolbar to switch between two layouts:

• Grid: vertical cards with the bottle, name, and brand.
• List: wider rows with a photo, the scent’s identity, and quick controls to log a wear or add a container inline.

Your choice is remembered between sessions. You can also set a default layout in Settings under Display.

The same secondary actions menu has a Surprise me button. Tap it to open a random scent you can wear, a quick way to break out of a rut. If you would rather have one suggested wear per day instead of a random one, see the daily pick in Today.

Search and filter

The Collection has the same search and filter tools described in detail in Search and Filtering. In short:

• Search bar: type a brand, name, or note keyword. Results narrow as you type, across brand, name, notes, accords, tags, scent family, and shelf name.
• Status tabs: below the count, tap All, Owned, Samples, Tried, Wishlist, or Empty. A tab only appears when you have scents in it.
• Sort and filter menu: sort (Brand, Shelf, Rating, Last worn, Most worn, or Recently added) and add filters for Family, perfumer, shelf, Favorites only, Needs details, and specific notes (with separate “Has all of these” and “Hide any of these” lists).

Active filters show as chips above your scents, and each chip clears with a tap. A Clear button removes all filters and search at once.

When Family and perfumer filters appear

The Family and perfumer filters show up only once you have more than one family or perfumer in your collection. If you do not see them yet, that is why; they will appear as your collection grows.

Search and Filtering The full guide to searching, every filter, saved searches, and how matching works. This is the source of truth for search.

Save a search

When you have typed a search you can save it for later. The full saved-search flow lives in Search and Filtering; the short version:

1. Type your search (for example “vanilla amber”) and add any filters you want.
2. Tap the bookmark button next to the count. The search keeps your query, status tab, family, note filters, favorites toggle, and sort order.
3. To run it again, open the Sort and filter menu, choose Saved searches, then tap the one you want.
4. To remove a saved search, swipe left on it in the Saved searches list.

To rename a saved search, delete it and save a new one with the query you want.

Auto-fill missing details

If you have scents that are missing their notes and accords, Orrique can fill them in from the shared catalog.

1. Turn on the Needs details filter in the Sort and filter menu.
2. Tap Auto-fill all next to the count.
3. Watch the progress as it works through them one at a time.

When it finishes, a message tells you how many were filled in. Scents that gained notes and accords drop out of the Needs details filter. Some scents may have no catalog match yet; you can still add their details by hand.

Open a scent’s details

Tapping a scent opens its detail page, where you can:

• Log a wear with one tap using Log as usual, or choose Log with details for the full entry form.
• Open the Options menu (the circle with three dots) to Edit, add or remove it as a Favorite, share a card, mark it as a dupe of another scent, find similar scents, or delete it.

To edit, open Options and choose Edit. The editor lets you change the brand, name, status, format, concentration, scent family, notes, accords, seasonality, occasions, your personal notes, the rating, the photo, and bottle details like size, batch code, and price. Tap Save to keep your changes; they appear everywhere right away.

Changing a status without adding a container

Status normally follows from the containers you record, but you can also set it directly in the editor (for example to flip a Tried or Wishlist scent to Owned). Once you have at least one “Have it” container, the container-based status takes over.

Track your bottles and samples (containers)

On a scent’s detail page, the “Your journey” card lets you add and manage the physical containers you have of it. A single full bottle shows in the “Bottle” card; samples, decants, testers, and any second container appear in the list here. Tap Add a container to add one, or tap an existing container to edit it. For each container you can set:

• Type: Bottle, Decant, Sample, or Tester.
• Size in ml, and a price (optional).
• State: Have it, Used up, or Let go (see below).
• Where it lives: a shelf or place. You can type anything, or pick from a shelf you already use.

A container’s state decides whether it counts toward what you own:

State	What it means	Counts as on hand
Have it	A container you currently keep	Yes
Used up	A container you finished	No
Let go	A container you gave away or no longer have	No

“Used up” and “Let go” stay in your history without counting as on hand. To remove a container entirely, open it and tap Remove this container.

A scent’s status then follows from the containers you have on hand:

What you have	Resulting status
A full bottle on hand	Owned
Only a sample, decant, or tester on hand	Samples
Containers recorded, but all used up or let go	Empty
No container, but you have logged a wear	Tried
No container, saved for later	Wishlist

Containers are edited one at a time, and a scent’s shelf is set from its card or the Wardrobe (Move to shelf), not from this list.

Organize into shelves and the Wardrobe

A shelf is a real place your bottles live: a bedroom dresser, a vanity, a travel bag. To put a scent on a shelf, press and hold its card (or use the list row’s menu), choose Move to shelf, and pick an existing shelf or create a New shelf. You can also remove a scent from its shelf the same way.

Once you have at least one shelf, tap Shelves in the Collection toolbar to open the Wardrobe. Each shelf is a card showing a peek of its bottles, a count, its total value (unless prices are hidden), and a soft blend of the shelf’s overall scent character. From a shelf card you can:

• Tap to open the shelf and see its bottles, its combined scent fingerprint, how it differs from the rest of your collection, and quick stats.
• Choose Browse in Collection to filter your Collection to just that shelf.
• Share the shelf as a card.
• Rename or delete the shelf.

Delete a shelf vs delete a scent

Deleting a shelf keeps all its scents; it only removes the grouping. Deleting a scent removes it and its photos, but your diary entries for it are kept.

Scent Librarian

Pro When you open a single shelf, Orrique Pro members with Apple Intelligence and at least two bottles on the shelf also see a short Scent Librarian read: a written impression of that shelf, written on your device.

Rediscovery (the Resting shelf)

If you own wearable scents you have not reached for in about the last month (roughly four weeks), a gentle Resting banner appears at the top of the Wardrobe. Tap it to see those bottles, most-neglected first, so you can rediscover something you forgot you loved. There are no notifications and nothing to set up; the list updates on its own. Logging a wear of a resting scent quietly moves it off the list.

Pack for a trip

To plan a travel capsule, open the Wardrobe (Shelves) and tap Pack for a trip (the suitcase).

1. Set how many nights, from 1 to 30.
2. Choose the weather: Warm, Mild, or Cold.
3. Turn on the settings you need to cover: Daytime, Evenings out, or Something formal.

Orrique picks the smallest set of bottles you already own that covers what you chose, with a short line on why each one earned its spot. You can tap Share this capsule to make a card, or Copy as a checklist to paste a plain list into Notes or an email.

The planner only draws from scents you can actually wear (owned, not used up). If nothing on hand suits a setting, it tells you what is left uncovered so you can plan around it.

What to expect

• Adding, editing, logging, and moving scents take effect immediately. There is no Save-and-wait.
• Filtering and search update the visible scents as you go. The count shows how many of your total are shown.
• A scent’s status updates automatically as you change its containers.
• The Resting list and the trip capsule are worked out live from your wear history and collection, so there is nothing to keep in sync by hand.
• Scents are managed one at a time. There is no multi-select to move or delete several at once, and containers are edited one by one.

Good to know

• Plan recap. Pro Unlimited bottle and box scanning, the Scent Librarian read of a shelf, and “Layers well with” suggestions all require Orrique Pro. Free The “Match for you” card is free; it appears once you have at least three other scents with notes in your collection (the scent you are viewing is not counted).
• Scanning is metered. You get a number of free reads, and unlimited reads come with Orrique Pro. Once you reach the free limit, scanning offers the Pro upgrade. You can always add and edit scents by hand without scanning.
• Search matches text only. You can search by brand, name, notes, accords, tags, family, and shelf, but not by price or rating. Note filters match the exact note name, ignoring capitalization.
• Device differences. The grid and list flow into more columns on iPad and Mac and stay a single column on iPhone. On Mac, you can also reach Add Fragrance, sorting, and the layout choice from the menu bar.

iCloud and per-device settings (the long-tail details)

• Layouts and saved searches stay on each device. Your collection layout choice, and your saved searches, are stored on the device you set them on rather than synced across your devices.
• iCloud sync. If you turned on iCloud Sync (in Settings under Data and Sync), your scents, ratings, notes, shelf assignments, and container details sync across your devices. Photos sync separately and may arrive a little after the rest. On a brand new device, your collection can take a moment to appear while it downloads from iCloud; Orrique shows a calm “Loading your collection from iCloud” message and an option to add a scent by hand in the meantime, so a quiet first launch does not mean anything is lost. See iCloud and Sync for the full picture.

Common questions

A scent’s status did not change after I added a container

Status follows your containers. If you still have a full bottle, the scent stays owned even after you mark a decant as used up. Open the scent, check each container, and remove any you no longer have.

A duplicate of the same scent appeared

Scents are keyed by brand and name, so a small spelling difference can create a second entry. Open one, use the Options menu, and merge or fix the spelling so they line up. See Troubleshooting.

A shelf vanished but my scents are still here

Removing a shelf never deletes the bottles on it; they return to your collection. Recreate the shelf and add them back, or check whether a sync from another device changed it. See iCloud and Sync.

Scanning a bottle stopped working

Read Bottle includes a free trial of 3 scans, then it is part of Orrique Pro. When the trial is used up the control reads “Scan more bottles with Pro”. You can always add a scent by searching the catalog or entering it by hand. See Pro Subscription.

Related articles

Fragrance Details Everything on a single scent's detail page, including containers and dupes.

Pack for a Trip Build a small travel capsule from the bottles you own.

Search and Filtering The full guide to searching, filters, and saved searches.

Scent Atlas and Insights See your whole collection as a map of families, notes, and stats.

Pro Subscription What unlocks with Orrique Pro, including unlimited scanning and the Scent Librarian.

iCloud and Sync How your collection syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.