Search, Filtering, and Sorting

This article is the home for finding and browsing your fragrances in Orrique: searching your Collection, narrowing what you see with filters, choosing how things are sorted, switching between grid and list, and saving a search to reuse later. It also points you to the Diary and Discover articles for the search built into those tabs. Most of this lives in the Collection tab, and the behavior is the same on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

In short

Combine a plain-word search with the Sort and filter menu to pull up any slice of your collection, then save that view so it is one tap away next time.

Search your Collection

Type a brand, name, or note and watch results narrow. Jump there.

Filter

Status, family, shelf, favorites, and the two-sided note filter. Jump there.

Save a search

Keep a whole view (query, filters, and sort) one tap away. Jump there.

Sort and layout

Reorder the grid and switch between cards and rows. Jump there.

Diary

Search and filter your wear history. Jump there.

Discover

Browse new scents instead of your own. Jump there.

When to use this

Reach for search and filters when:

• Your collection has grown and you want to jump straight to one bottle.
• You want to see only a slice of your collection, for example only what you own, only a scent family, or only the scents on one shelf.
• You are looking for scents that have certain notes (and none of others).
• You want to find diary entries from a place, an occasion, or a season.
• You keep running the same search and want it one tap away.

Search your Collection

1. Open the Collection tab.
2. Pull down or tap the search bar at the top. It reads “Search brand, name, notes…”.
3. Start typing. Results narrow as you type.

Search looks across each fragrance’s brand, name, scent family, shelf name, its notes (top, heart, and base), its accords, and any tags you have added. Matching is case-insensitive, and it matches anywhere in ordinary text, so typing “van” will find “Vanilla”. Recognized alternate note names also find the same scents as their canonical note. There are no special operators like quotes or AND/OR; type plain words.

Collection search over your own journal works offline. Shared catalog search uses a rebuildable on-device text index when available, reads one bounded candidate page for each query instead of materializing the complete catalog, and can refresh online. After the first complete catalog setup, refreshes apply changed rows in bounded pages and keep unchanged search entries in place. A compact key check removes deleted shared records without downloading every fragrance payload again. Catalog bottle images remain separate and load only when needed. See Device Storage and Offline Use.

A count near the top shows how many of your fragrances match. To clear the search, empty the search bar.

Visual Intelligence can also open Collection with a bounded set of bottle matches from a camera image or screenshot. The count changes to visual match or visual matches while that result set is active. Start typing to leave visual results and use the normal Collection search, or clear the filter to return to the full collection. See Visual Intelligence Search.

On Mac

The Mac app has full menus and keyboard shortcuts. Press Command-2 to open Collection, then Command-F to focus the Collection search bar and start typing.

Filter your Collection

Filters live in the Sort and filter menu (the overflow menu in the Collection toolbar). On iPad and Mac the same menu sits in the toolbar above the collection grid in the sidebar layout. You can combine filters freely, and they apply on top of whatever you have typed in the search bar.

Here is where each control lives, so you can find it at a glance:

Control	Where it lives
Search	The search bar at the top of the Collection
Collection mode (Owned, Bottles, Trials, and so on)	The mode row under the header
Favorites only, Needs details, Family & perfumer, Filter by notes	The Sort and filter menu
Sort order, Saved searches	The Sort and filter menu
Shelf	The “Shelf: name” chip at the top, set from the menu or from Shelves
Grid, Gallery, List, or Table	The View control in the toolbar. Table appears on wide iPad and Mac layouts

Orrique prepares Table-specific row details only while Table is the active layout. Switching layouts keeps the active search text, filters, sort, and saved-view result set.

Filters only offer what your data contains

A filter control only appears when there is more than one choice to make. The Trials filter row, the Family & perfumer row, and the family, perfumer, and shelf pickers each show only the values you have actually used. This keeps the menu short and is true throughout the app, including the Diary pickers below.

Collection modes and Trials filters

Below the Collection header you will see a mode row. Tap one to decide which part of your collection you are working in.

Mode	What it shows
Owned	Every bottle, tester, decant, or sample that still has usable stock.
Bottles	Full bottles you have and can wear.
Trials	Samples, decants, testers, and quick tries.
Wishlist	Explicit wishlist scents and trials marked Want bottle.
Archive	Used-up, let-go, or archived scents.
All	Your complete active catalog in one view, without a second status submenu.

Inside Trials, a second row lets you split the drawer further:

Trial filter	What it shows
Samples	Sample-format containers.
Decants	Decant-format containers.
Testers	Tester-format containers.
Untried	Trials with no logged wear yet.
To decide	Sampled samples, decants, or testers that need Buy, Skip, or Revisit.
Want bottle	Trials you have marked as worth a full bottle.
Running low	Trial containers with a spray gauge that is nearly empty.
Let go	Trial containers you moved on from.

Favorites only

In the Sort and filter menu, turn on “Favorites only” to show just the scents you have marked as a favorite.

Needs details

Turn on “Needs details” to show only fragrances that are missing their notes and accords. This is a quick way to find bare entries and fill them in. When this filter is on, a button in the count area lets you auto-fill all of them at once from the shared catalog. As each scent gains notes, it drops out of the filter.

The bulk fill is best-effort

Auto-fill runs in the background, so the app stays responsive while it works. A scent with no match in the shared catalog is left exactly as it was, so do not be surprised if a few entries stay bare after a fill.

Family and perfumer

1. In the Sort and filter menu, tap “Family & perfumer”.
2. A sheet opens. You can scroll, or use the search field at the top to find a shelf, family, or perfumer.
3. Tap a family to select it. Tap it again to clear it.
4. Do the same for a perfumer if you like.
5. Tap Done.

You can have one family and one perfumer active at a time.

Shelf

You can narrow the collection to a single shelf in two ways:

• From the Sort and filter menu, open “Family & perfumer” and pick a shelf from the Shelf section at the top of that sheet.
• From the Collection toolbar, tap “Shelves”, open a shelf, and choose “Browse in Collection”.

When a shelf is active, a chip reading “Shelf: name” appears at the top of the collection. Tap it to clear the shelf and go back to everything. While a shelf is selected, only the scents on that shelf show, and you can still apply the other filters on top.

At accessibility text sizes, long filter and saved-search labels use the available row width and wrap instead of clipping at the screen edge.

Filter by notes (require and hide)

This is a two-sided note filter. You can ask for scents that have all of certain notes, and at the same time hide any scent that contains other notes.

1. In the Sort and filter menu, tap “Filter by notes”.
2. In “Has all of these”, type a note. As you type, suggestions appear. Tap one to add it as a chip.
3. In “Hide any of these”, add the notes you want to exclude.
4. Tap Done.

The collection then shows only scents that contain every required note and none of the hidden notes. The active note filters also appear above the mode row, so you can remove a chip without reopening the sheet.

Two rules worth knowing

If you add the same note to both sides, requiring it wins, so the scent stays in view. Canonical note names and recognized alternate names are treated as the same note, ignoring case. An unrecognized spelling matches nothing, so a stray typo can empty your results.

Save a search to reuse it

When you have typed a search, you can keep it so it is one tap away later. This is the most useful trick on the page, so it is worth setting up once.

1. Type a query in the Collection search bar.
2. Next to the result count, a “Save search” bookmark appears once the search is not empty. Tap it. The bookmark fills in to show it is saved.
3. To re-run a saved search later, open the Sort and filter menu and tap “Saved searches”.
4. Tap any saved search to apply it. To remove one, swipe left on it in the list, or tap the filled bookmark while that search is showing.

A saved search keeps the whole view

Saving captures more than the words you typed. It remembers the query plus the collection mode, family and perfumer, the favorites and needs-details toggles, your require and hide notes, and the sort order. One tap rebuilds that entire view. Saved searches sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your iCloud.

The query text is the name of the saved search, so to relabel one you save it again with new text. You can keep up to 12 saved searches; when you save a thirteenth, the oldest one is dropped. If a saved search points at something that no longer exists, such as a deleted shelf, it falls back to a safe default like “All” rather than failing.

A worked example

Search “vanilla”, switch the collection mode to Owned, set the family to Woody in Family & perfumer, then sort by Last worn. You now see only the sprayable woody scents with vanilla, freshest wear first. Tap the Save search bookmark and that whole view, words, filters, and sort together, becomes one tap away on every device.

Sort your Collection

1. Open the Sort and filter menu.
2. Tap “Sort”.
3. Choose an order.

Order	How it sorts
Brand	Alphabetical
Shelf	By shelf name
Rating	Highest first
Last worn	Most recent first
Most worn	By how often you wear it
Recently added	Newest first

The collection re-orders right away. Your choice is remembered between launches. You can also set the default sort in Settings, under Display.

Switch between grid and list

The Collection toolbar has a View control. Choose Grid for cards, Gallery for an image-first browse, or a List density for rows. Table appears on wide iPad and Mac layouts. All filters and sorting work across the supported layouts. You can also set the default layout in Settings, under Display.

Search and filter your Diary

The Diary has its own search and filters that work much like the Collection: a search bar reading “Search scents, notes, places…”, removable filter chips, and a match count. Diary search looks across the scent names, occasion, your written notes, the moment, the saved prompt, your compliments, the season, and the activity, all case-insensitive. You can filter by Occasion, Season, Activity, Rated only, or With photos, and choose Newest first or Oldest first. When you search, the feed groups results by month so nothing gets mislabeled as “Today” or “This week”.

For the full walkthrough of the Diary feed and its filters, see the Diary article.

DiarySearch, filter, and browse your wear history in the Diary tab.

Browse the Discover tab

The Discover tab is for finding new scents, not for searching your own collection. It shows scrolling rails: “For you” personal picks, “Smells like, for less” budget-friendly look-alikes, and curated lists such as Top rated, Longest-lasting, Hidden gems, and Best value. Scroll down to move between rails and sideways within a rail. Tap any fragrance card to open its community profile, then add it to your collection if you like.

What each Discover rail shows

• “For you”: personal picks based on your taste. This rail appears once you have at least 3 fragrances in your collection.
• “Smells like, for less”: budget-friendly scents the community says are similar to ones you have. It appears when your collection has matches.
• Curated lists such as Top rated, Longest-lasting, Room-filling, Hidden gems, Most logged, Best value, and top-rated picks by family.

For the full tour of Discover and its dupe matching, see the Discover article.

Discover and DupesBrowse curated rails, find similar scents, and spot dupes of what you already love.

What to expect

• Searching and filtering update the visible collection or diary right away as you type or tap.
• A count near the top tells you how many items match out of your total.
• If nothing matches your filters, you will see an empty state with a way to clear them.
• Removing a filter chip takes effect immediately, without reopening any menu.
• Your sort order and layout choice carry over the next time you open the app.

Good to know

• Search and most filter choices are for the current view and are not carried to your other devices. The collection mode resets to All when you reopen the app.
• Saved searches, Collection sort, and layout choices sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through iCloud. You can set sort and layout defaults in Settings, under Display.
• Search has no advanced operators (no quotes, AND, OR, or wildcards). Type plain words; matching is case-insensitive and matches anywhere in the text.
• Apple Watch does not include collection or diary search, filtering, or sorting. Use it for today’s pick and quick logging instead.

Free, with a few Pro extras

None of search, filtering, or sorting requires Orrique Pro. The Discover tab and its lists are also free. Compare, unlimited Ask Orrique, and some deeper Scent Atlas capabilities need Pro.

Right after a fresh install

If you have just set up Orrique on a new device, your collection and diary may still be arriving from iCloud. If search comes up short right after a fresh install, give sync a little time and your scents and history will fill in as they finish loading.

Related articles

CollectionAdd, edit, and organize the bottles you search and filter here.

Common TasksStep-by-step recipes, including finding a bottle fast and building a saved view.

Notes and GlossaryWhich note names Orrique recognizes for the two-sided note filter.

Scent Atlas and InsightsGo beyond filtering into trends and patterns in your wear history.