Discover and Dupes

Discover is where Orrique looks outward. Instead of showing only your own shelf, it surfaces crowd-rated picks, personal recommendations tuned to your taste, and cheaper twins of fragrances you already love. This article also covers the dupe tools you will find on a fragrance’s own detail page (marking a dupe, seeing what the crowd says smells alike, and comparing your reading to everyone else’s), and the Compare screen for lining up two or three scents side by side.

In short

Discover turns the community’s anonymous data into picks made for your taste and into cheaper twins of scents you love, while the dupe cards on each fragrance let you track and compare matches.

Where these features live

These features sit on three different screens, so it helps to know where each one lives:

• Discover tab: the personal and crowd rails (For you, Smells like for less, and the crowd-curated lists).
• A fragrance’s detail page: the dupe and crowd-comparison cards (Dupe of, Smells like, You vs the crowd, Before you buy).
• Scent Atlas: the Compare screen for two or three scents.

For you

Personal picks ranked against your own taste. Jump down.

Cheaper twins

Scents that smell like ones you love, for less. Jump down.

Crowd lists

Top rated, longest lasting, hidden gems, and more. Jump down.

Dupe cards

Mark a dupe and see what the crowd matches. Jump down.

Compare

Line up two or three scents side by side. Jump down.

When to use this

• You want fresh ideas based on what the community rates highly, or what people say lasts longest.
• You are curious whether a scent you want has a cheaper alternative that smells similar.
• You already own a dupe of a designer fragrance and want to record how it differs.
• You are deciding between two or three bottles and want a clear, side-by-side look at their ratings, value, performance, and notes.
• You want to know how your own take on a fragrance compares to the crowd.

How to use it

Open Discover

Tap the Discover tab at the bottom of the screen (the binoculars icon). On iPad and Mac, Discover is in the sidebar.

The page is built from horizontal rails you scroll sideways. At the very top there may be a short intro line. Below that you will find the personal and crowd rails described next.

For you (personal recommendations) Free

The first rail is “For you”, with the subtitle “Scents like the ones you reach for.” These are catalog fragrances ranked against the taste Orrique learns from your own collection and diary. Each card shows the brand, the fragrance name, a match percentage, and up to three short reasons for the match.

To use it:

1. Scroll the “For you” rail sideways.
2. Tap any card to open the Add Fragrance screen with that scent’s name already filled in.
3. Choose whether to add it to your shelf or your wishlist, then save.

This rail learns from your own taste data, so it works whether or not you share with the community. It needs at least 3 fragrances in your collection before it can learn your taste. Until then you will see a short note telling you how many more scents to add to unlock it. See the appears-when table in Good to know.

Smells like, for less (cheaper twins) Free

This rail is titled “Smells like, for less”, with the subtitle “Cheaper twins of fragrances you love.” It looks at the fragrances on your shelf and wishlist, finds crowd-agreed matches that smell similar, and shows the ones that are meaningfully cheaper.

Each card shows the cheaper twin large, your own scent as a small inset photo in the corner, an approximate savings figure (for example “Save about 40 percent”), a closeness badge, and how many people agree. Tap a card to open the Add Fragrance screen with the cheaper twin pre-filled, ready to add to your shelf or wishlist.

A twin only appears when it is at least roughly 15 percent cheaper per milliliter than your scent, and when enough people have voted that the two smell alike (see Good to know).

The closeness scale

Cheaper twins, Dupe of, Smells like, and your own suggestions all use the same three-step closeness scale:

Closeness	What it means
Ballpark	In the same ballpark, a loose match
Similar	Clearly similar
Spot-on	Practically identical

Crowd-curated lists Free

Below the personal rails are the community lists, each its own rail with a title and subtitle. These are built entirely from anonymous community contributions.

List	What it surfaces
Top rated	The highest crowd ratings overall
Longest lasting	Scents people report wearing longest
Hidden gems	Highly rated, but rarely logged
Most logged	The scents the most people wear
Best value	Strong ratings for a lower cost per milliliter
Top in a family	The leading scents within one scent family

To explore a list:

1. Scroll a rail sideways to see the fragrances.
2. Tap any card to open that fragrance’s community profile.

The profile is a read-only sheet. It shows the brand, name, and notes, then a “Community” section with the metrics people have reported: rating, longevity, projection, sillage, sprays per wear, and bottle size. Each metric shows a typical value, a range, and a small distribution chart. At the top of the sheet you will see the fragrance’s scent shape with your own collection’s taste shown behind it as a dashed outline, plus one line describing how the two compare. The footer notes how many people the averages came from.

Mark a fragrance as a dupe (Dupe of) Free

You can record that a fragrance you own is a dupe of an original. This lives on the fragrance’s own detail page, not in Discover.

1. Open the fragrance from your Collection.
2. Find the “Dupe of” card (it shows an “Edit” button).
3. Tap “Edit”.
4. Search for the original by brand or name. Matches from your own collection appear first, then the wider catalog. The original can be any fragrance, whether you own it or not.
5. Tap the original to select it.
6. Choose how close it smells: Ballpark, Similar, or Spot-on.
7. Optionally add a short note about how it differs (for example “sweeter, shorter on me”).
8. Optionally turn on “Also tell the community these smell alike” to share the match anonymously.
9. Tap “Save”.

Once saved, the detail page shows a “Dupe of” comparison: which notes the two share, which are unique to each, an approximate price saving per milliliter, and a performance comparison drawn from community data when the original has it.

To change it later, tap “Edit” again on that card. To remove the link entirely, open “Edit” and clear the selected original, then save.

Smells like (crowd dupe matches) Free

Every fragrance detail page also has a “Smells like” card showing the crowd’s dupe matches. These are pairs that enough people have voted smell similar. Each match shows a closeness badge (Ballpark, Similar, or Spot-on), a savings hint when the match is cheaper per milliliter, and the number of people who agree.

To suggest your own match:

1. On the fragrance detail page, find the “Smells like” card.
2. Tap “Suggest”.
3. Search for the fragrance it smells like and tap to select it.
4. Choose the closeness: Ballpark, Similar, or Spot-on.
5. Tap “Submit”.

Your suggestion appears in a “Your suggestions” section labeled “Pending” until a few people agree, at which point it becomes a shared match on both fragrances. If you spot a wrong or joke match in the crowd data, see Community and Contributions for how reporting works.

You vs the crowd Free

When you have worn a fragrance, its detail page can show a “You vs the crowd” card. It picks the one metric where your reading differs most from the community (rating, longevity, projection, or sillage) and describes it in plain language, for example “Your rating beats 73 percent of people. The crowd sits near 3.5.” A small chart shows the crowd distribution with a marker for your own value. There is nothing to tap here; it is a quiet, private comparison.

This card appears only after you have worn the scent, and the distribution chart fills in once at least 5 people have reported that metric.

Before you buy (wishlist redundancy) Free

For a fragrance on your wishlist, the detail page can show a “Before you buy” card. If you already own one or two scents that smell very close to it, the card names them and suggests a side-by-side look first. If nothing in your collection is similar, it tells you the scent would bring something new. This card appears only on wishlist items, never on scents you already own.

Compare two or three scents Pro

Compare lines up scents in one table. You reach it from the Scent Atlas screen.

Pro feature

Compare needs Orrique Pro. Tapping Compare without it opens the upgrade screen instead of the comparison.

1. Open the Scent Atlas tab.
2. Open the toolbar’s overflow (“More”) menu and tap “Compare”. (The button appears once you have at least 2 fragrances.)
3. Tap “Choose scents”.
4. Search or scroll your collection and tap to select up to 3 fragrances.
5. Tap “Done” to see the comparison.

In the comparison view you can tap the small X on any scent’s column to remove it, or tap “Choose scents” again to swap or add. When you have 2 or more scents selected, the top of the view shows a “Scent fingerprints” panel overlaying each scent’s shape with a color legend, followed by an “At a glance” summary and the full table. The table is grouped into Ratings and use, Value, Performance, Details, and a Notes matrix where a filled dot marks which scents carry each note. The winning value in each comparable row is highlighted in that scent’s color.

On Mac you can also start a comparison from the menu bar: Scents, then “Compare Fragrances”.

What to expect

• Tapping a card in “For you” or “Smells like, for less” opens the Add Fragrance screen with the name already filled in. Nothing is added until you save it.
• Tapping a card in a crowd-curated list opens a read-only community profile. It does not change your collection.
• Submitting a dupe suggestion or saving a dupe with “Also tell the community” turned on shares the match anonymously. It does not reveal your diary or identity.
• A dupe suggestion you make shows as “Pending” to you until enough people agree, then it becomes a shared match on both fragrances.
• The “Before you buy” and “You vs the crowd” cards are informational. They do not take any action on their own.
• In Compare, an “At a glance” award (best value, longest lasting, top rated, most worn) only appears when there is a single clear winner. If two scents tie, that award is skipped.

Good to know

• Most of Discover is free; only Compare needs Pro.

Feature	Free	Pro
”For you” personal rail	Yes	Yes
”Smells like, for less” cheaper-twins rail	Yes	Yes
Crowd-curated lists	Yes	Yes
”Dupe of” and “Smells like” cards	Yes	Yes
”You vs the crowd” card	Yes	Yes
”Before you buy” card	Yes	Yes
Compare two or three scents	No	Yes

Tapping “Compare” without Pro opens the upgrade screen instead of the comparison.

• When does each thing appear? This is the one place to check when a rail or card is empty. Community features wait until enough people have contributed, so early on you may see “No community picks yet” or “No community matches yet”. That is normal, not a problem.

What appears	When it appears
The “For you” personal rail	You have at least 3 fragrances in your collection
The “Smells like, for less” cheaper-twins rail	A twin is at least roughly 15 percent cheaper per mL, and enough people agree the two smell alike
A community metric	At least 3 people have contributed it
A shared dupe match	At least 3 people agree the two smell alike
The crowd-distribution chart in a profile	At least 5 people have reported that metric
The “You vs the crowd” card	You have worn the scent (the chart needs 5 crowd reports)
The “Before you buy” card	The scent is on your wishlist

• Community data is anonymous and crowd-built. The lists, profiles, savings figures, and dupe matches all come from anonymized averages contributed by other people. None of it includes diary entries or anything that identifies a person.
• Some cards earn a small badge. When the crowd data is strong enough, a card can carry a short badge such as “Top 3% longevity”, “Best value”, “The crowd agrees”, or “Divisive”. Community-added scents that have not been verified show a small “Unverified” badge.
• Community reads work offline. Crowd lists, profiles, and dupe matches are read from a cached copy of the community data, so Discover works without a connection. Sharing a dupe vote does require an internet connection and an iCloud account, and is handled quietly in the background; if it does not go through it simply does not appear, and nothing in the app breaks.
• Your dupe stays private either way. The original you record, the closeness, and your note are saved with your own fragrance. Sharing with the community is optional and separate.
• Hide prices affects what you see. Turning on “Hide prices” in Settings removes your own prices, so the Value section of Compare and the price comparison on a dupe card disappear. The anonymized community savings hints in Discover are not your data, so they can still show; this is intended, not a leak of your prices.
• You can only compare up to 3 scents at once. To compare a different scent, remove one first.
• Some comparison rows can be empty. Ratings, performance, notes, and prices only appear when you have recorded them, so a row may show a placeholder if the data is missing. Performance and price comparisons on a dupe card likewise need enough recorded or community data to show.
• Device differences. Discover and the dupe cards work on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Compare is reached from the Scent Atlas screen on iPhone and iPad, and from the Scents menu on Mac. These features are not part of the Apple Watch app.

Related articles

Fragrance Details The detail page where the Dupe of, Smells like, You vs the crowd, and Before you buy cards live.

Community and Contributions How the anonymous crowd data is built, shared, and kept private.

Scent Atlas and Insights Where Compare lives, plus the wider view of your collection.

Pro Subscription What Compare and the rest of Orrique Pro unlock.

Settings Hide prices and other choices that change what Discover shows.