The Today Screen

iPhone, iPad, MacBeginner14 min readSyncs with iCloud

Today is your daily home base in Orrique. It greets you, suggests one scent to wear, lets you log a wear in a single tap, shows the local weather, helps you reflect on how recent wears held up, and surfaces small insight cards (like an “on this day” memory) drawn from your own journal. This article walks through everything you will see there and how to use it.

When to use this

The screen reshapes itself around the time of day:

In the morning, the suggested pick leads.
In the evening, the reflection prompt and what you wore today rise to the top.

You decide when evening begins. Set the hour in Settings, under Customization > Behavior > “Evening starts at”.

How to use it

Almost everyone comes to Today for the same short loop. Here it is end to end.

Open Today in the morning and look at Today’s pick.
Tap “Wear” to log it in one tap.
Come back in the evening. Tap the wear in “Reflect on your wears”.
Set how it wore, then tap “Save”.

Everything below is detail on each piece of that loop, plus the extras (weather, occasions, live sessions, and insight cards).

Today’s pick Free

Today’s pick is a single fragrance from your own collection, suggested as a good choice for the day. It appears in a card labeled “Today’s pick” with the bottle image, the brand, the name, the scent family, and a short one-line reason.

The pick is chosen from your collection by looking at the season, the local weather (if available), your recent wear history, and any occasion you have selected. It stays the same throughout the day, so it will not change on you between glances. It only refreshes when the day rolls over to a new date or when you change the occasion filter.

From the pick card you can:

Tap “Wear” to log today’s wear in one tap.
Tap “Track” (its full label is “Track this wear”) to start a live wear session (see Track this wear as a session).
Tap “Swap” to step to the next-best suggestion. Keep tapping to cycle through your options; once you reach the end it wraps back to the start.
Tap the arrow glyph in the top-right corner to open the full fragrance page.
After you swap, a “Back to recommended” link appears below the buttons; tap it to return to the original suggestion.

The same pick is what the Orrique widgets and the Apple Watch complication show, so they all agree.

Occasion filter

If you have tagged at least two different occasions across your collection, a row of chips appears above the pick card: “Any” followed by your occasions (such as Work, Evening, Date, Formal, Casual, Sport, or Special). You tag occasions per fragrance in Collection and Fragrance Details.

Tap an occasion chip to narrow the pick to scents you tagged for that occasion.
Tap “Any” to go back to picking from your whole collection.
Tap the same occasion chip again to deselect it.

When you pick an occasion, the suggestion updates right away. If nothing in your collection is tagged for that occasion, Orrique falls back to suggesting from your whole collection so the card is never empty. The chip row only appears when there is a real choice to make, so a brand-new collection with no occasion tags will not show it.

Weather on the pick card

When location is available, the pick card shows the current temperature and conditions as a weather chip in its top-right corner, just to the left of the Details glyph. The weather also gently nudges the suggestion toward families that suit the day: warmer days lean toward fresher scents, colder days toward warmer and woodier ones.

If location is not yet turned on, that same spot shows a “Weather” chip instead. Tap it and allow location when prompted, and the conditions appear once the data loads.

Wear Coach note Pro

If you have Orrique Pro and your device supports Apple Intelligence, the pick card can show a short, personalized line explaining why this scent suits you today. It sits in the caption area and is marked “Wear Coach, on device” with a small graduation-cap icon. It is written privately on your device.

If Wear Coach is not available, the card simply shows the standard one-line reason instead. There is nothing to turn on and nothing to tap; the note loads on its own when it can.

Reflect on your wears

When you have wears that have not been rated yet, a card titled “Reflect on your wears” (or “Reflect on your wear” for a single one) lists them. This includes scents you logged today that have no rating, plus prior-day wears still waiting for a next-day rating.

Tap any wear in the list to open the rating sheet.
Set how it wore: a rating, longevity, projection, sillage, mood, compliments, and notes. You can fill in as much or as little as you like.
Tap “Save”.

Once a wear has a rating, it drops off the reflection list on its own. If you want to set it aside for now, tap the small close (x) button on the card to hide it for this session; it comes back the next day.

The mood scale

Inside the rating sheet, the mood control is labeled “Mood” with a sliding scale from 0 to 10 and a live readout showing a weather glyph and the score (for example “7/10”), flanked by weather glyphs that shift from drizzle to sun as your mood climbs. Slide to capture how you felt. Leaving it at the bottom counts as leaving it blank, so it is fine to skip.

Your mood is saved with that diary entry and helps power insights like “A scent that lifts your day”.

Writing your mood to the Apple Health app (as a State of Mind entry) is offered in the full “Log a wear” sheet, not in this quick reflection sheet. See Diary for the full logging flow.

Track this wear as a session

You can track a wear live so Orrique follows it through its top, heart, and base phases.

On the pick card, tap “Track” (its full label is “Track this wear as a session”).
A live card appears at the top of Today titled “Wearing now”, with a running timer and the current dry-down phase.
Tap the chips (Top notes, Heart notes, Base notes, Too strong, Compliment, or Headache) to mark milestones as you notice them. These are optional.
Tap “End session” to finish; this saves the wear to your diary. Tap “Discard” if you started one by mistake and do not want to keep it.

On iPhone, an active session can also appear as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. While a session is tracking the pick, the “Wear this” button is hidden for that scent so you do not log it twice; logging a different scent is still allowed. For more on Live Activities and widgets, see Widgets, Siri, and Shortcuts.

Your rhythm and stats

Below the daily content, Today shows:

Your rhythm: your current wear streak (with a note if a grace day is included) and a small bar chart of the last seven days, each bar colored by that day’s main scent family.
Your signature: the family mix of your recent wears. Tap it to open the Scent Atlas.
Scents and Total wears this month, with quick taps into your Collection and Diary.
Running low: bottles that are getting close to empty, based on your sprays-used tracking.
Recently worn: your last few wears, each with a quick re-log button (the drop icon).

Insight cards

Further down Today, below your rhythm, a few small insight cards are drawn from your own journal. To keep the screen calm, only three appear at a time and they rotate from day to day. Each one only shows when there is real signal behind it. They include:

Card	What it shows
On this day	A wear from the same calendar date in a past month or year, with the scent and your journaled note. Tap “Wear” to log it again today, or tap the scent to open its page.
A scent that lifts your day (mood lift)	A scent you tend to wear on brighter-mood days, nudged back into rotation. Tap “Wear” to log it.
Most complimented	The scent that drew the most logged compliments over the last 30 days.
Longest lasting	The scent with the longest average logged longevity.
Notes you gravitate toward	The notes that show up most across the scents you actually wear. Tap a note to see the fragrances that carry it.
Rotation	A heads-up when one scent has dominated the last week, with a gentle nudge to rest it.
Untested samples	Up to three samples or decants you own but have never logged. Tap “Try” to log one.

You can choose which insight cards are allowed to appear. Go to Settings > Customization > Today cards and toggle the ones you want.

What to expect

Tapping “Wear this”, “Wear”, or “Try” logs the wear for today. If the scent has wear history, Orrique reuses your usual sprays and placement; otherwise it uses your default spray count from Settings. A small “Logged” message with an “Undo” option appears for a few seconds in case you tapped by mistake.
Logging from a wear session is different: you end the session to save that wear, and it is already marked so it does not show up in the reflection prompt.
Changing the occasion filter immediately updates the suggested pick, and forgets any scents you waved off under the previous filter.
The pick and “today’s wears” reset cleanly at midnight. If you leave the app open overnight and return, Today recalculates for the new day.
If a pick ever feels stale, pull down to refresh, or change and clear the occasion filter to force a fresh suggestion. Closing and reopening the app also recalculates Today.

Good to know

Free for everyone

Today’s pick is free. The Wear Coach note is the one part of this screen that needs Orrique Pro, and it also needs a device with Apple Intelligence. Without those, the card shows the standard reason instead.

Weather is optional and private

It needs location permission, is fetched once each time you open Today (it does not refresh live), and is never stored. If it cannot be fetched, the label and its small nudge simply do not appear. Weather only influences the order of suggestions and the wording of the reason; it never changes which scent is shown after the card has loaded. Set auto-fill behavior in Settings > Weather.

The occasion filter is session-only

It resets when you fully close the app. Your occasion tags themselves stay with each fragrance.

Insight cards rotate

Seeing only three at a time, and a different three on another day, is by design. A card stays hidden if there is not enough data behind it yet (for example, the mood lift card needs a good amount of logged mood history), or if you turned it off in Today cards.

Wear sessions live on the device

An active session is not synced and is not kept across an app force-quit. Once you end a session, the resulting wear is saved to your diary and syncs like any other entry.

iCloud sync

When you turn it on, your collection, diary, ratings, and moods sync across your devices; the daily pick and insight cards are then computed fresh on each device from that synced data. On a new device, your scents and history may take a moment to arrive while iCloud finishes syncing, and Today fills in as they do.

Where Today works across your devices

Today shows the same content on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, held to a comfortable reading width on the larger screens. Apple Watch shows a simpler version. This table sums up what appears where.

Feature	iPhone	iPad	Mac	Apple Watch
Today’s pick and one-tap logging	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Track a wear (Wearing now card)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lock Screen and Dynamic Island Live Activity	Yes	Yes	No	No
Weather on the pick card	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Reflection prompt	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Insight cards	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Menu bar and Scents menu quick actions	No	No	Yes	No

For the Mac and Watch experiences in full, see Mac App and Apple Watch.

Diary The full Log a wear flow: sprays, placement, photos, and mood to Apple Health.

Collection Add scents and tag occasions that drive the pick and the occasion filter.

Scent Atlas and Insights Where your signature, rhythm, and deeper trends live.

Widgets, Siri, and Shortcuts The widgets and Live Activities that mirror Today's pick.

Pro Subscription What Pro unlocks, including the Wear Coach note.

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