Sharing a Scent Card

Orrique can turn almost anything in your journal into a polished image you can post or send: a single fragrance, a diary day, your whole collection, your wishlist, your scent year, or a side-by-side comparison. This article covers the share-card editor: how to open it, pick a look, customize the card, and export it.

In short

On any plan you can pick a style and a size, then share or copy in seconds. Orrique Pro unlocks backgrounds, colors, your own elements, full canvas editing, Layers, and removing the watermark.

What each plan can do

The quickest way to make a card is the same on every plan: pick a style, pick a size, share. Deeper editing is part of Orrique Pro. Here is the whole boundary in one place.

Capability	Plan
Open the editor from anywhere in your journal	Free
Pick a style (the cover-flow carousel)	Free
Choose a size (Portrait, Square, Story, Wide)	Free
Share to the system share sheet, or Copy image	Free
Shuffle the style and switch what the card is about	Free
Change the background (photo, aura, paint colors, tone)	Pro
Set a custom accent color	Pro
Add your own elements (text, shapes, photos, bound details)	Pro
Select, move, resize, rotate, and recolor on the canvas	Pro
Arrange and organize Layers	Pro
Move, recolor, or remove the corner watermark	Pro

The Pro limit is enforced deep in the editor, so it holds however you try to edit: taps, the keyboard, the drag handles, and VoiceOver all respect it. If a control is not available to you, it simply will not respond. See Pro Subscription.

Make a card in seconds

This is the whole free path. It takes about as long as it reads.

1. Open a card from a fragrance, a diary day, your collection, or Today (see the starting points below).

2. Swipe the style carousel until a look you like sits in the center.

3. Open the Size section and pick a shape.

4. Tap Share to open the system share sheet, or use Copy image from the overflow menu.

Everything past this point is optional polish, most of it Orrique Pro.

When to use this

Reach for a share card when you want to show off a scent or your journal in a way that looks intentional, not just a screenshot. It is built for sharing to Messages, Mail, Photos, AirDrop, and other apps, or for copying the image to paste somewhere else.

Open the editor

Every starting point opens the same editor, already built around that content. You can also switch what the card is about from inside the editor later, so the starting point is just where you begin.

A fragrance

Open the fragrance, tap the Options menu, choose “Share card”. See Fragrance Details.

A diary day

Open the diary entry, tap the Options menu, choose “Share entry”. See Diary.

Collection or wishlist

From the Collection, use the menu and choose “Share collection” or “Share wishlist”. See Collection.

A shelf

Open a shelf in your wardrobe, choose “Share this shelf” for a card of just that shelf’s bottles.

Today's pick

On the Today screen, choose “Create a card”. See Today.

Your scent year

Open Scent Wrapped, choose “Make a card”. See Scent Atlas and Insights.

The editor opens full-screen with the card in the middle. The title at the top reads “Share card”. A close button (X) sits on the left, and a Share button plus an overflow menu (the circle with three dots) sit on the right.

Pick a style Free

Styles set the overall look of the card. The switcher is a cover-flow carousel: several style cards sit side by side, each one a live preview of your own content in that design.

1. Open the Style section (the stacked-rectangles icon in the tool row on iPhone, or in the side panel on iPad and Mac).

2. The card in the center is full size and full opacity, and it is the one that applies. Its neighbors shrink and fade the farther they sit from the center, so you can see what is coming up next.

3. Swipe left and right to bring another style to the center. On Mac, prev and next steppers flank the carousel for the same thing. Page dots underneath show how many looks there are and where you are.

4. Settling on a style keeps your content the same and only changes the layout, fonts, background, and accent color.

Each style change counts as one undo step, so you can always step back to the previous look.

Choose a size Free

Open the Size section to pick the card shape. The options are Portrait, Square, Story, and Wide. Tap a shape to switch to it. Story is the tall format that suits Instagram and similar stories; Square suits a standard feed post; Wide suits a banner or a landscape post.

Export the card Free

When the card looks right, you have two ways out.

1. Tap the Share button (top right) to create the image and open the system share sheet, where you can send it to Messages, Mail, Photos, AirDrop, and other apps.

2. Or open the overflow menu and choose “Copy image” to copy the image to your clipboard. A brief “Copied” confirmation appears, and you can paste it anywhere.

Sharing creates a high-resolution image of your card and hands it to the system share sheet, so you choose where it goes. The card is rendered on your device and nothing is uploaded by the act of sharing.

Save a draft to finish later Free

If you want to keep a design and come back to it:

1. Open the overflow menu and tap “Save as draft”. A short “Saved” confirmation appears.

2. Close the editor whenever you like.

3. Later, open the editor for the same kind of card and choose “Resume draft” from the overflow menu to bring your saved design back.

Drafts are per kind and per device

Saving keeps one draft per kind of card (for example one for fragrance cards, one for collection cards). Saving a new draft for that kind replaces the previous one. Drafts live on this device only and are not synced through iCloud, so each device has its own, and reinstalling the app or clearing its data removes them. This never affects your collection or diary, which are stored separately.

Customize your card Pro

Everything in this block is part of Orrique Pro. A free card is simple by design, so if you are on the free plan you can skip ahead to Good to know. With Pro, these sections let you make the card your own.

Change the background Pro

Open the Back section to set the card background:

• A photo background (available when the fragrance or entry has a photo).
• The living scent aura, a soft gradient drawn from the scent itself.
• A set of solid paint colors (light and dark options), or a custom color you pick.
• A light or dark tone toggle.

When the background is a photo, extra controls appear to fit or fill the photo and to nudge its position and zoom. Those photo controls only show up when the background is set to a photo and the card actually has a photo to use.

Set the accent color Pro

Open the Color section to change the card’s accent. The first swatch is the scent’s own signature color, followed by its aura palette, then a set of neutrals and an option to choose any custom color.

Add your own elements Pro

Open the Add section to place new things on the card. The palette is grouped into two categories.

Category	What it holds
Basic	A text block, a shape, a line, a symbol, or a photo. Adding a photo is an upload button (your camera roll, Files, or drag and drop), and your saved journal photos sit alongside it so you can drop one in.
Details	Ready-made fields pulled from the card’s content for a single-scent card, so you can drop in the title, notes, rating, the signature visuals, and your scent Fingerprint (a small radar of the scent’s character).

After adding something, you can move, resize, rotate, and recolor it like any other element. New elements default to “can be covered,” so dropping a fresh piece onto a pinned layout does not shove the existing pieces around.

For a single-scent card, Details can surface more of what you know about the fragrance, when it has the information: the Perfumer (the nose behind the scent), the Format (a small badge that reads Full bottle, Sample, or Decant), the Seasons that suit it, and the Occasions it fits (both as a row of chips).

Shape controls for signature blocks

Some Details fields are composite signature blocks, and each one has its own shape controls in the inspector:

• Signature swatches render as arches: a row of tall, rounded-top bars in the scent’s aura palette. You set how many arches there are and how round the tops are (from a square top to a full semicircle).
• Signature breakdown and Accord chips also have count and corner-roundness controls, so you can set how many items show and how rounded they are.

The inspector shows only the controls that affect the selected block, so it stays tidy.

Edit elements on the canvas Pro

Tap any element on the card to select it.

• Move it: drag it.
• Resize it: drag the corner handle.
• Rotate it: drag the rotation handle above it.
• Recolor it, edit text, or change other settings: use the floating toolbar that appears near the element (on iPhone) or the side panel (on iPad and Mac).

For text and detail fields, you can also change the font. Tap the font name in the element’s controls to open the font browser. You can filter by category (Serif, Sans, Slab, Western, Display, Script, Hand, Mono, Rounded) and each name is shown in its own typeface so you can see it before you choose. Tap a font to apply it, then tap Done.

Arrange and organize layers Pro

Open the Layers section to see everything on the card as a list. From here you can:

• Tap an item to select it, even ones that are hard to tap on the card itself.
• Hide or show an item.
• Reorder items front to back.
• Group two or more items so they move together, then align or evenly space them.

Tools that work on any card

These live in the overflow menu (the circle with three dots) at the top right and work on every plan.

• Undo and Redo step back and forward through your changes. The editor keeps a generous undo history; older steps drop off as you keep working.
• Shuffle style re-applies a random template to the same content.
• Reset zoom appears when you have zoomed in on the canvas. You can pinch to zoom in and drag with one finger to pan once zoomed.

Change what the card is about Free

The overflow menu also has a Featured group. Without leaving the editor you can rebuild the card around something else, and your design (background, colors, layout) carries over as one undo step. The Featured options are the same set you can start from, plus a side-by-side comparison:

• Today’s pick
• A specific fragrance
• A diary day
• Your collection
• Your wishlist
• Your scent year
• A side-by-side comparison of two scents

Building a comparison card

To set up the two scents a comparison card shows, use the compare tools in Discover and Dupes and Scent Atlas and Insights.

What to expect

• Sharing creates a high-resolution image and hands it to the system share sheet, so you choose where it goes. Nothing uploads.
• Copying puts the same image on your clipboard with a quick “Copied” confirmation.
• Templates, colors, fonts, and added elements all update the card live as you change them.
• Every meaningful change is a single undo step, so it is safe to experiment.

Safe to experiment

Trying a different style, color, or layout never touches your collection or diary. The editor only builds an image, and any change can be stepped back with undo, so feel free to explore.

Good to know

• The Orrique watermark. Every card carries a small Orrique mark in the corner, and it always sits on top of your other elements. On the free plan the mark is locked; tapping it offers an upgrade. With Orrique Pro you can move, resize, rotate, recolor, or remove it.

  The corner mark	Free	Pro
  Move, resize, rotate	No	Yes
  Recolor	No	Yes
  Remove it	No	Yes

• A control that will not respond is not a bug. On the free plan the Pro-only controls simply do not respond, which is expected. The photo background and its fit, position, and zoom controls only appear when the scent or entry actually has a photo.

• Undo history has a limit. The editor keeps a generous run of recent changes for undo. Older steps drop off as you keep working.

• Device differences. On iPhone the editor uses a compact layout with a tool row, the card in the center, and a control shelf at the bottom that you can collapse to give the card the full screen. A floating toolbar appears near the selected element. On iPad and Mac the editor uses a side panel for the controls instead.

  With a hardware keyboard (iPad or Mac) you can also use:

  Arrow keys : Nudge a selected element.

  Delete : Remove the selected element.

  Undo and redo shortcuts : The usual ones for stepping back and forward.

Accessibility

The editor supports VoiceOver, and the Pro limit is respected through VoiceOver just as it is through taps and drag handles. With a hardware keyboard on iPad or Mac you can nudge, delete, and undo without touching the canvas.

Related articles

Pro Subscription What Orrique Pro unlocks across the app, including the share editor.

Fragrance Details Open a fragrance and share a card straight from it.

Collection Share your whole collection, wishlist, or a single shelf.

Scent Atlas and Insights Scent Wrapped and the comparisons behind a side-by-side card.

Backup and Export Other ways to get your journal out of the app.