The Diary and Logging a Wear

The Diary is where every scent you wear is recorded and remembered. This article covers how to log a wear, rate it the same day and the next day, track a wear live as it develops, edit or repeat past entries, and read the patterns the Diary surfaces over time.

In short

Log a wear once and the Diary turns it into your streak, your monthly digest, and a year of insights, with same-day and next-day ratings to capture how each scent truly performed.

What you do here

Log a wear

Record a scent you wore, with as much or as little detail as you like, and track its dry-down live.

Jump to logging

Rate and reflect

Rate how it performed the same day and the next day, and jot down a reflection.

Jump to rating

Browse and manage

Open, edit, repeat, or delete past entries, and search or filter the whole feed.

Jump to browsing

When to use this

Use the Diary whenever you put on a fragrance and want to keep a record of it: which scent, how many sprays, where you wore it, how it performed, and how it made you feel. Over time those entries become your scent story. They power your streak, your monthly digest, your year-at-a-glance heatmap, and many of the insights elsewhere in the app.

You will spend the most time here when you want to:

• Log today’s scent (or a scent you wore on an earlier date).
• Rate how a fragrance held up, both on the day and the day after.
• Follow a scent’s dry-down in real time as you wear it.
• Look back through what you have worn and find a specific day.

The Diary tab is the main place to log, but it is not the only one. You can also log from the Today screen (“Log today”), from your Apple Watch (tap to log today’s pick), and through Siri, Shortcuts, and widgets. Whichever surface you use, the wear lands in the same Diary feed.

Log a wear

Log a new wear

The fastest path is short: pick a scent and save. Everything else can wait.

1. Open the Diary tab and tap the plus button (“New entry”) in the toolbar. You can also tap “Log today” at the top of the feed, or “Log a scent” from the empty state.
2. Under “Scents”, tap “Choose a scent” to pick from your collection. You can search by name, brand, or note.
3. Tap “Save”.

Only a scent is required

The single required field is a scent. You can leave the spray count, placement, ritual, performance, weather, and notes blank and come back to fill them in later. You do need at least one scent in your collection first; if it is empty, the form will tell you to add a scent.

What else you can capture

Each of these is optional, and you can add or change any of them later by editing the entry.

Field	What you can set
Worn on	The date defaults to today. Tap it to choose an earlier date if you are catching up.
Scents	Tap “Add another scent” to log more than one fragrance for the same day.
Spray count	A stepper from 1 to 50.
Where you sprayed	Any combination of Neck, Wrists, Chest, Clothing, and Hair.
Ritual	An Occasion and an Activity from their menus, a Mood slider (cloudy to sunny), and a Season. There is also a “Compliments or comments” field.
Performance	A same-day Rating, plus Longevity (in hours), Projection, and Sillage. Any of these can be left unset.
Weather	The conditions, temperature, and humidity, typed in or filled with “Use current” (this uses your location).
Notes	A free-text note.

Use a preset to log faster

If you log similar wears often (for example a work day with 5 sprays to the neck), you can save those settings as a preset and reuse them in one tap.

1. While logging a new wear, set up the occasion, activity, spray count, and placement you want.
2. Tap “Save these settings as a preset” and give it a name like “Office”, “Gym”, or “Date night”.
3. Next time you log, your saved presets appear as chips at the top of the form. Tap one to fill in its occasion, activity, spray count, and placement. Each chip shows a short summary of exactly what it fills.
4. To remove a preset, touch and hold its chip and choose “Delete”.

Applying a preset replaces those fields rather than merging them, and it applies the spray count and placement to every scent in the log. Presets are shown only when you are logging a new wear (including “Log again”), not when editing an existing entry. They are saved on this device only.

Set the mood, and optionally save it to Apple Health Free

The Mood control is a slider that runs from a rainy cloud to bright sun. On iPhone and iPad, once you set a mood, a “Save this mood to Apple Health” toggle appears so you can also record it as a State of Mind in the Health app. The first time you turn it on, Health will ask for permission.

Add a moment Free

On iPhone (iOS 17.2 and later), the “Ritual” section includes an “Add a moment” button. It opens Apple’s Journaling Suggestions picker, where you can attach something you were doing: a place, an event, a memory, or a logged State of Mind. Only the suggestion you pick is shared with Orrique. The moment shows as a small chip on the entry, and you can remove it by tapping the x on the chip. If you pick a logged mood (on iOS 18 and later), it can also set the mood slider for you.

Track a wear live Free

A live wear session follows a scent’s dry-down in real time and records what you notice along the way.

1. When logging a new wear, turn on “Track this wear live” in the “Ritual” section, then save. You can also start tracking from a past entry: touch and hold a row in the feed and choose “Track this wear”, or open an entry, touch and hold a scent, and choose “Track this wear”.
2. The session card appears on the Today screen. It shows the scent, a live timer that updates every minute, the estimated dry-down phase (top notes, heart notes, or base notes) with a progress bar, and the scent’s family.
3. Tap a quick chip to log a phase (Top, Heart, Base) or a reaction (Too strong, Compliment, Headache).
4. Tap any logged check-in to add a note (“What did you notice?”) or remove it. You can also type a custom note in the “Add a note” field and tap “Add”.
5. When you are done, tap “End session” to save everything onto the entry. Tap “Discard” if you want to throw the session away instead.

When a session ends, its check-ins are saved to the entry as a “How it evolved” timeline, and the longevity is recalculated from the time elapsed. If you started the session from an existing entry, that same entry is updated in place rather than creating a duplicate. Only one session can be active at a time; if you start tracking a different scent, the app asks whether you want to replace the current one.

Where the live session appears

The session card and timer live in the app, on the Today screen. On iPhone and iPad, a matching Live Activity can also appear on the Lock Screen. The Lock Screen Live Activity is an iPhone and iPad feature. You can start and run a live session on iPhone and iPad; live tracking is not started from Apple Watch.

Rate and reflect

Rate a wear the same day

When you open an entry that has not been rated yet, a “Rate this wear” card appears.

1. Tap a star to set the rating (you can use half stars).
2. Optionally drag the Longevity, Projection, and Sillage sliders.
3. There is no save button. Each change is saved as you make it, and the card switches to a read-only “Performance” view once you have set a rating.

To change a rating after it has been set, use “Edit” from the Options menu.

Rate a wear the next day

A next-day rating captures how a scent held up after it had time to settle.

1. The day after a wear, the Diary digest shows a button like “1 wear waiting for a next-day rating”.
2. Tap it to open the “Rate Yesterday” sheet. It shows the scent, the date, and the context it was worn in (occasion, activity, mood, weather, season), plus your same-day rating if you set one.
3. Slide the rating (from 0.5 to 5 stars) and tap “Save”, or tap “Skip” to dismiss it without rating.

The sheet shows one wear at a time. Save or skip, then tap the button again for the next one. Only wears from the previous seven days that you have not yet rated or skipped are offered. Once you skip a wear, it will not be offered again.

You can also set up a daily reminder for next-day ratings in Settings (see the Settings article).

How the two ratings combine

The same-day rating and the next-day rating are kept side by side on the entry, not averaged into one number. The same-day rating records your first impression; the next-day rating records how the scent settled. Each can be present or blank on its own. A rating of zero stars is treated as “not rated”.

Rating more than one scent on the same day

When you log more than one fragrance for the same day, the Performance section offers “Together” or “Per scent”. Per-scent ratings only appear when you logged in “Per scent” mode. In “Together” mode, one rating applies to the whole day’s wear.

Recap this week Pro Apple Intelligence

On a supported device, a “Recap this week” button appears in the Diary toolbar once you have logged at least two wears this week. It drafts a short, editable summary of your week on your device. You can copy or share it, but it is not saved anywhere; close it and it is gone.

How the weekly recap is written The AI features that draft your recap, what they read, and the device requirements.

Add or edit a reflection

Open any entry and add or edit reflections in the “Reflections” card. These save when you tap away from the field, not on every keystroke.

You do not have to open an entry to jot down an afterthought. Swipe a feed row to the right (on iPhone and iPad) and tap “Reflect”, or touch and hold a row and choose “Add a reflection”. A focused sheet opens with just the “Compliments” and “Note to future you” fields. Tap “Save” to keep them.

Browse and manage

View an entry’s detail

Tap any row in the feed to open its full detail view. It shows the date, the scents worn with their spray counts and placement, performance, the “How it evolved” timeline from a live session, your reflections, weather, and any photos in a small scattered stack. A wear logged as a formula or layered combo shows each of its scents in this list, so a layered wear and a single-scent wear sit in the same feed.

From here you can:

• Tap a scent name to open that fragrance’s detail page.
• Tap the photo stack to view the gallery, and add photos with the “Add photo” menu (Take Photo, Choose from Library, or Choose File).
• Adjust the occasion or activity inline from the chips in the header.
• Add or edit reflections in the “Reflections” card.
• Open the Options menu for “Share entry”, “Edit”, “Log again”, and “Delete”.

Edit, repeat, or delete an entry

• Edit: open an entry, tap Options, then “Edit”. This reopens the log form with every field ready to change. Edits save quietly without the confirmation that appears for a brand new entry.
• Log again: copies a past entry’s scents, spray counts, placement, occasion, and activity into a new log for today, with a clean slate for mood, ratings, notes, and weather. Reach it from the Options menu, or touch and hold a feed row and choose “Log this again today”. You confirm or adjust before saving, so nothing is logged silently.
• Delete: open an entry, tap Options, then “Delete”, and confirm.

Deleting is permanent

Deleting a diary entry cannot be undone. If the entry has an active live session, deleting it also cancels that session.

Search and filter the feed

• Use the search bar to find entries. It matches scent names, occasion, notes, season, activity, compliments, and any attached moment.
• Tap the filter menu in the toolbar to filter by Occasion, Season, or Activity, to show only rated entries or only entries with photos, and to change the sort order between “Newest first” and “Oldest first”.
• The same menu has a “Row color” section with a “Color by rating” toggle. With it on, each entry’s date badge is tinted from cool (lower ratings) to warm (higher ratings) instead of the scent’s own color. Unrated entries stay neutral. This is off by default.
• Active filters and a non-default sort appear as removable chips below the search bar. Tap a chip to remove it, or tap “Clear” to reset all filters at once.

What to expect

When you save a new wear, a brief “Logged” confirmation appears in the scent’s signature color, and the entry shows up at the top of the feed under “Today”. Editing an existing entry saves quietly without that confirmation.

The feed groups entries by time. On the default unfiltered view you will see “Today”, “Yesterday”, “This week”, and “Earlier this month”, followed by calendar months. When you search or filter, or sort oldest first, the feed switches to plain calendar months so nothing is mislabeled.

Above the months you will find a few quiet, automatic touches on the unfiltered feed:

• Today prompt: at the very top, either “Logged today” with the scents you wore, or a nudge to log with “Log today” and “Log like last time” buttons.
• Digest: the current month’s label, your wear count, a short line about what you reached for most, and a row of dots showing how many days this month you journaled.
• On this day: a single row when you wore something on this calendar date a year or more ago, tapping straight to that entry.
• Your scent year: a heatmap of the past year, where each square is a day colored by the scent family you wore most. Tap a square to open that day. This appears only once you have history older than this week.

Your streak lives on the Today screen, and your all-time numbers appear in the Scent Atlas and Insights. A streak counts consecutive days you logged a wear, anchored to today or yesterday, so not having logged yet today will not break an active run. One missed day can be bridged by a grace day.

Your rhythm and streak The full streak rules, grace days, and your longest-ever run live on the Today screen.

Good to know

Topic	What to know
Logging is fast	The date picker defaults to today, so logging today’s scent (or catching up on an earlier day) takes one tap.
Presets are device-local	They are not synced between your devices, and they only apply when logging new wears, not when editing.
Ratings use stars	A rating of zero is treated as “not rated”. The same-day card auto-saves; to change a rating after the fact, use Edit.
Per-scent ratings	When you log more than one fragrance for the same day, the Performance section offers “Together” or “Per scent”. Per-scent ratings only appear when you logged in “Per scent” mode.
Next-day window	Only wears from the previous seven days that are unrated and not yet skipped are offered, and skipping one removes it from the list.
Live sessions	One scent at a time. Starting a session for a different scent prompts you to replace the current one. A session cannot be paused, only ended or discarded. The Lock Screen Live Activity is an iPhone and iPad feature.
Weather	Temperature and humidity are entered manually unless you tap “Use current”, which uses your location. You can turn on automatic weather fill in Settings so it is pre-filled when you log.
Deleting is permanent	There is no undo for a deleted entry.
iCloud and history	With iCloud Sync, your entries sync across devices and may take a little time to appear on a new device while iCloud catches up. With Local Only, entries stay on this device. Live sessions in progress are kept on the device and are not synced; the finished entry syncs when the session ends.
Week recap	Needs a supported device with Apple Intelligence, and at least two wears logged this week. The draft is editable and is not saved.
Surfaces by device	Swipe actions on feed rows are available on iPhone and iPad; on Mac, use the equivalent Options menu instead. The “Now wearing” strip above the tab bar is an iPhone feature on iOS 26 (it also appears on iPad in a narrow Split View or Slide Over window, where the layout switches to tabs).

Related articles

Today Your daily pick, the live session card, and your streak.

Collection Add scents so you have something to log.

Scent Atlas and Insights The patterns your logged wears build over time.

AI Features How the weekly recap and other AI drafts are written.

iCloud and Sync How your diary entries move between devices.