Drydown vs Perfume Picks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Perfume Picks
Discover affordable alternatives to designer and niche fragrances, and build a personalized scent collection. Train your nose by rating perfumes and track your existing collection. Scan bottles to identify them and add them to your wardrobe.
- Find affordable fragrance dupes
- Discover scents by brand, accord, and notes
- Train your nose with swipe-based learning
- Build and track your scent wardrobe
- Scan bottles to identify fragrances
- Get layering suggestions with Pro
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Perfume Picks reads your taste into a Fragrance DNA. Then it hands you a scent to wear each day from the bottles you already own, and finds cheaper bottles that smell nearly the same. YOUR FRAGRANCE DNA Tap the scents you love and we read your palate into an archetype: The Seducer, The Connoisseur, The Purist, and more. It's your taste with a name on it, and it keeps sharpening every time you wear, swipe, or add a bottle. SCENT OF THE DAY Open the app to a scent chosen from your own wardrobe, matched to your DNA and the day, with a line on why it fits. Turn on the morning reminder and it arrives at 8am. CHEAPER BOTTLES THAT SMELL THE SAME Love a $300 bottle? We find dupes matched on accords, ranked by how close they smell and how much you'd save. Usually 30 to 70 percent less. YOUR WHOLE COLLECTION Track every bottle you own, want, or have tried, with remaining mL, price, and when you last wore it. Log a wear in one tap and it captures the day and occasion. Backdate up to two years, and log layering combos too. SCAN A BOTTLE Point your camera at a bottle and we'll identify it and add it to your wardrobe. SHARE YOUR DNA Send friends your archetype and they can go find out theirs. YOUR YEAR IN SCENT Perfume Wrapped turns your wear history into a recap you can share: top houses, top families, the bottles you reached for most. WHO WEARS THIS See verified celebrity associations on the fragrances you're exploring. WHERE TO BUY When you're ready to buy, we point you to real retailers and may earn a commission. Perfume Picks is not a store and never sells you fragrance directly. FREE TO START Find your Fragrance DNA, build your wardrobe, log your wears, and get a daily pick. All free. PERFUME PICKS PRO Unlimited Train My Nose swipes and scans, an unlimited wardrobe, every dupe, layering suggestions, Perfume Wrapped, and your full taste profile. - $2.99/month, or $24.99/year with a 7-day free trial. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage anytime in your App Store settings. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No ads. We don't sell or share your data. Your wardrobe stays yours. Built by a collector, for collectors. Terms: https://perfumepicks.app/terms Privacy: https://perfumepicks.app/privacy Questions? support@perfumepicks.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Perfume Picks at 4.0 against Drydown's 3.1. Perfume Picks also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 20%) and iOS requirement (15.5 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
Both are free to download. Drydown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Perfume Picks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Perfume Picks holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Drydown's written reviews are positive against 50% of Perfume Picks's.
Drydown ships an update every 5 days, Perfume Picks every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drydown | Perfume Picks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laurence Young | Timberline Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Drydown
Perfume Picks
In-app purchases
Drydown
- Drydown Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Drydown Pro Annual$29.991 Year
Perfume Picks
- Perfume Picks Pro7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Perfume Picks Pro7 Days trial$24.991 Year









