Comparison

Sillage vs Drydown

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sillage

This app helps perfume enthusiasts track their collection, rate scents, and analyze personal preferences. It provides detailed fragrance information and helps build a personal scent archive. Advanced insights and features are available with a premium subscription.

Highlights
  • Log and organize fragrance collection
  • Track wearings and personal ratings
  • Discover scent trends and patterns
  • View detailed fragrance information
  • Build personal fragrance archive
  • Unlock advanced insights with Premium
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Sillage is the modern fragrance journal and collection tracker built for serious perfume enthusiasts. Track your collection, rate your scents, analyze your preferences, and discover patterns in your taste over time. Whether you're building a curated wardrobe or exploring new releases, Sillage helps you understand your fragrance identity with clarity and structure. FEATURES • Log and organize your fragrance collection • Track wearings and personal ratings • Discover scent trends and patterns • View detailed fragrance information • Build your personal fragrance archive • Unlock advanced insights with Premium SILLAGE PREMIUM Sillage Premium unlocks advanced features including expanded collection tools, enhanced fragrance statistics, and deeper insight into your evolving scent profile. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION Sillage Premium offers the following auto-renewable subscriptions: • Monthly Subscription – $4.99 per month (auto-renews monthly) • Annual Subscription – $39.99 per year (auto-renews yearly) Lifetime access is also available as a one-time purchase and does not auto-renew. • Lifetime - $149 one-time payment (no auto-renew, not a subscription) Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.notion.so/Privacy-Policy-2f062016d8598083b71ccf0e3f6b9b87?source=copy_link Built for collectors. Designed for clarity. Sillage helps you turn your fragrance collection into a living archive.

About

Drydown

This AI-powered fragrance advisor helps you manage your perfume collection, discover new scents, and get personalized recommendations based on weather, mood, and occasion. It offers smart layering suggestions and tracks your wear history to reveal your unique Scent DNA.

Highlights
  • AI-powered bottle scanning and identification
  • Personalized scent recommendations
  • Fragrance layering suggestions
  • Collection management and tracking
  • Wear journaling and Scent DNA analysis
  • Wishlist and purchase advisor
Features
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Some people own a handful of bottles. You have a wardrobe – and Drydown helps you wear it like one. Ask "What should I wear today?" and your AI Sommelier answers from your own shelf – by weather, occasion, mood, and time of day. Drydown is your personal AI fragrance advisor. Scan bottles with your camera, build a beautiful collection, get weather-aware recommendations, and discover the art of layering – all powered by intelligent AI. THE SOMMELIER – RECOMMENDATIONS THAT REMEMBER • A real multi-turn chat – ask "What about something lighter?" and it remembers the context • Suggests from YOUR collection, weighing your actual wear history, not just the forecast • Pick occasion, mood, and weather with quick-tap chips – no forms THE LAB — THE ART OF LAYERING • Instant compatibility score for any two-fragrance pairing – no waiting on AI • Scored across 5 dimensions: note family, concentration, pyramid interaction, season, and performance • Application technique included: spray counts, body zones, and timing • Green reliably means a genuinely great match AI BOTTLE SCANNING • Snap a photo – on-device Vision OCR plus AI auto-fill the brand, name, concentration, and full note pyramid • Scan barcodes against a database of thousands of fragrances PURCHASE ADVISOR & DUPE FINDER • Compare any wishlist fragrance to your collection before you buy • Verdicts – Strong Buy, Buy, Consider, Skip, or Strong Skip – scored on collection gaps, note overlap, seasonal versatility, and value • Duplicate detection reveals overlap you already own – never buy a duplicate again DEEP ANALYTICS • Collection Health Score across 5 dimensions – Diversity, Engagement, Curation, Seasonality, and Completeness • Wear patterns by time of day and day of week, monthly recaps, and plain-language insights • Value tracking: cost-per-wear, break-even tracker, best-value leaderboard, and idle-money insights SCENT DNA • Your fragrance archetype, a preference radar chart, dominant notes, brand affinities, and the notes you tend to avoid TODAY'S PICK & HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • A smart daily recommendation with one-tap wear logging and alternatives • Widgets for Today's Pick (with a Log button), a wear-streak tracker, Collection Spotlight that rotates on its own through season-appropriate gems, and quick logging WARDROBE PLANNER • Plan fragrances on a calendar with AI-suggested weekly rotation based on the forecast and your history WEAR JOURNAL • Log every wear with ratings, longevity, projection, mood, occasion, weather, and compliments – one tap SHAREABLE CARDS • 13 editorial templates – Scent DNA, Top Five, Wear Streak, Cost-Per-Wear, Monthly Recap and more – in Story, Square, and Wide formats ACHIEVEMENTS & STREAKS • 18 achievements across collection milestones, wearing goals, variety, and dedication – from First Addition to Master Collector IMPORT & EXPORT • Import via CSV or JSON, export for backup, and generate beautiful collection infographics DRYDOWN AI – BUILT INTO PRO • Every AI feature works instantly – no API keys, no setup, powered by a privacy-focused proxy that never stores your data • Power users can optionally bring their own Gemini or OpenAI key PRICING • Free to download. Free users get 3 Sommelier conversations a month • Pro unlocks every AI feature: 7-day free trial on the annual plan, then $29.99/year. Or $4.99/month • Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled; manage anytime in Settings PRIVACY FIRST Your fragrance data stays on your device and in your private iCloud container. We don't have servers, accounts, or access to your collection. Terms of Use: https://drydown.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://drydown.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

Sillage3 screens
Drydown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Drydown at 3.4 against Sillage's 1.2. Drydown also leads on review sentiment (20% vs 0%). Sillage's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sillage sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Drydown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Drydown holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 1.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Sillage's written reviews are positive against 20% of Drydown's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sillage ships an update every 3 days, Drydown every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sillage versus Drydown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSillageDrydown
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.2 (5 ratings)3.4 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews20.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings58 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB32 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperJ IRONY ETHAN JUSTICE DE OCAMPOLaurence Young

Customer experience

Sillage

All ratings5 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Drydown

All ratings8 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative37.5%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sillage

Subscriptions2
  • Sillage Premium Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Sillage Premium Yearly$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Sillage Lifetime Premium$149.99
2 purchases

Drydown

Subscriptions2
  • Drydown Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Drydown Pro Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Sillage free?
Sillage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Drydown free?
Drydown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sillage or Drydown?
Drydown is rated higher. Sillage averages 1.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Drydown averages 3.4 from 8 ratings.
Do Sillage or Drydown have ads?
Neither Sillage nor Drydown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sillage or Drydown?
Sillage ships an update every 3 days, and Drydown every 5 days. Most recently, Sillage was updated on October 12, 2026 and Drydown on October 21, 2026.

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