The Today Screen
Today is your daily home base. It suggests one fragrance before you log, changes its focus to what you actually wore afterward, brings earlier wears back for reflection, and surfaces small insights from your journal.
The daily loop
Section titled “The daily loop”- Open Today and review Today’s Pick.
- Choose Wear to start a normal wear draft, or use the quick action when you want the saved defaults.
- After saving, review the wear in Today’s wear. A suitable layer may appear for a single fragrance.
- Choose Reflect when it is available, record how the wear performed, then save.
The greeting changes with the time of day. Your cards stay in the order you chose, and Settings controls when Orrique begins treating the day as evening. The pinned focus changes between the pick, a live session, and the latest logged wear. The scent-tinted page background stays still while you read, while brief control and navigation motion remains available when Reduce Motion is off.
When Today has no prepared snapshot yet, it briefly shows quiet card placeholders while the first complete local summary is built. After that, journal changes made while Today is not visible are collected without repeatedly rebuilding its summaries. Returning shows the last complete cards first, then applies those collected changes in one refresh. This keeps the tab change responsive while bringing the cards up to date.
On iPhone, the Today page stays fixed side to side in every saved card layout and after another tab or sheet closes. Sideways gestures remain limited to controls that intentionally scroll or switch a suggestion.
Today’s Pick
Section titled “Today’s Pick”The pick comes from fragrances you can currently spray. It respects collection status, available containers, your chosen rotation strategy, recent use, and any context the strategy allows.
From the pick card you can:
- Open the fragrance.
- Log it using the normal wear flow.
- Start a live wear session.
- Ask for another eligible pick.
- See a short reason for the choice.
The screenshot above shows the focus before a wear is logged. Once a wear exists for the day, the same pinned place follows that real entry instead of advancing to another recommendation.
If weather access is on, local conditions can add context to the reason. Weather does not replace the eligibility and rotation rules. If weather is missing, the pick still works.
Occasion filter
Section titled “Occasion filter”Choose an occasion when you want the current pick to fit a particular setting. Clearing the occasion returns to the normal strategy. An occasion narrows or reorders eligible choices but does not make an unavailable bottle wearable.
At accessibility text sizes, a long occasion name uses the available width and wraps onto additional lines so the complete choice remains readable and tappable.
Wear Coach note
Section titled “Wear Coach note”Today always has a plain reason for the pick. Pro can add a short on-device Wear Coach line when the device supports the required Apple Intelligence path and the result can be checked against your journal. If the optional draft contains internal formatting, raw journal rows, or anything that cannot be verified, Orrique discards it and keeps the plain reason. The pick remains usable while optional writing loads or when it is unavailable.
After you log a wear
Section titled “After you log a wear”The pinned focus becomes Today’s wear after your first saved wear. If you log more than once, it follows the latest entry and labels the other same-day entries Earlier today. Opening the fragrance art goes to fragrance details when the entry contains one fragrance, or to the complete Diary entry for a combination or a fragrance that is no longer in the collection.
The focus can offer:
- Try a layer for a resolved single fragrance when an eligible partner exists.
- Reflect while the focused entry still needs a rating.
- Edit for the complete saved wear.
- Another pick as a quieter way to begin a separate wear draft.
The layer suggestion uses the same explainable collection evidence as The Layering Room. It is not generated model writing. Opening it carries the exact displayed fragrance and partner into the room. Collection or saved formula changes cause the suggestion to be checked again, so an old partner is not retained after its inputs change.
A formula wear, an unresolved historical fragrance, or a wear with no suitable partner does not show a misleading layer suggestion. Reflection or editing remains available instead. When a live wear session is active, the session card owns the current focus and the pick or saved-wear hero stays out of the way.
Choose how Today’s Pick rotates
Section titled “Choose how Today’s Pick rotates”Everyone can choose Balanced, Fair Rotation, Rediscover, Favorites, or Surprise Me. Pro adds focused presets and a Custom builder. Your saved Pro choice is kept if Pro becomes unavailable, while Balanced is used as the effective strategy.
Open Today Pick Strategies for every preset, Custom rules, eligibility, favorite rest periods, and sync behavior.
Calendar ahead
Section titled “Calendar ahead”When Calendar access and planning are on, Today can show upcoming events with scent ideas. Open an event to review the suggestion, alternates, supporting context, and any travel capsule preview before choosing Plan Wear. Planning does not create a Diary wear early.
Open Calendar Sync and Planning for setup, privacy choices, reminders, and manual calendar export.
Reflect on your wears
Section titled “Reflect on your wears”Recent wears that still need attention appear as rating cards. The latest focused wear offers its own Reflect action instead of appearing twice. A same day rating captures the opening and main wear, while a next day rating can capture longevity and what remained. Open a card, add only the details you want, then save.
The Diary owns the complete rating, reflection, and history workflow. See The Diary.
Track this wear as a session
Section titled “Track this wear as a session”A live wear session follows one fragrance or formula as it develops. It can show phase progress and accept optional check-ins. On iPhone and iPad, the active session can also appear as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen.
Open Live Wear Sessions for starting, checking in, ending, discarding, and device behavior.
Journal cards and insights
Section titled “Journal cards and insights”Today can surface compact cards based on the data you have, such as wearing rhythm, streaks, recent patterns, memories, bottle state, or a Scent Portrait entry point. Empty or irrelevant cards stay out of the way until there is enough evidence for them.
For deeper lenses, comparisons, value, and Scent Wrapped, see Scent Atlas and Insights.
Customize Today
Section titled “Customize Today”Use the Today edit control to arrange available cards. The adaptive Today focus stays pinned, while the supporting cards can be moved or hidden. The cards lift slightly but stay still. Drag a card only from the six-dot grip in its top trailing corner, then drop it where it suits your routine. The lifted preview keeps the same rounded capsule edge as the grip instead of gaining a rectangular plate. You can also hide cards you do not want and restore them later. Layout choices follow you when iCloud Sync is on.
A new setup and Reset to Default use this supporting-card composition below the pinned focus:
- Wear Rhythm across the full width.
- Your Signature as a tall left card, with Collection Growth and Wears This Month stacked on its right.
- Notes You Gravitate Toward at two-thirds width beside Scent Portrait at one-third width.
- Longest Lasting and Best Value as equal halves.
- The remaining available cards after that leading block.
These supporting cards are available to Free users and appear only after their underlying journal signal exists. For example, note preferences need repeated note evidence, while Best Value needs price and wear history. If one card has no data yet, Today does not leave a blank hole. The remaining cards reflow, and a lone narrow card can use the row. Your own saved arrangement is not replaced by this new default.
Where Today works
Section titled “Where Today works”- iPhone and iPad: full Today screen, widgets, and live wear presentation.
- Mac: full Today screen and desktop widgets, without the Lock Screen Live Activity.
- Apple Watch: an adaptive focus for active tracking, the latest wear, or Today’s Pick, plus quick logging, same-day rating, and session check-ins through the paired iPhone.
See Device Support for the complete matrix.