Comparison

Drydown vs ScentPass

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

Head to head
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

About

ScentPass

Log and organize your perfume collection, discover new fragrances, and get personalized scent recommendations. This app helps you understand your fragrance preferences and find your next signature scent.

Highlights
  • Log owned, sampled, and wishlisted fragrances
  • Personal fragrance collection management
  • Add notes and ratings to scents
  • Search extensive fragrance catalog
  • Discover trending and popular perfumes
  • Get personalized scent suggestions
  • Browse scents by olfactory family
Features
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Your fragrances, finally in one place. ScentPass is the passport for everything you smell. Point your camera at a bottle and ScentPass tells you what it is. Log the perfumes and colognes you own, sample, or want — and let ScentPass help you understand your own taste and find your next signature scent. SCAN A BOTTLE, SKIP THE TYPING • Hold the bottle in the frame, capture, and ScentPass reads the label for you • Get the closest matches from the catalogue, ranked by how sure we are • Tap the one you recognise and land on its full fragrance profile • The photo is only used to find the fragrance. It is never stored. The fastest way to log a perfume you tried at a store, or a friend's bottle. BUILD YOUR FRAGRANCE PASSPORT • Your olfactory profile: favourite families, the occasions you wear scent for, and your signature fragrance • Pin your top 5 fragrances to a personal podium • Walk into a perfumery, show your passport to the sommelier, and in ten seconds they know exactly what to recommend • Share it as a beautiful image, anywhere YOUR COLLECTION, ORGANIZED • I Have — the perfumes in your wardrobe right now • Tested — every scent you have tried, so you never forget one again • Wishlist — what you want next • Rate every fragrance with your own personal score, alongside the community rating Because taste is personal. A perfume the world rates 9/10 might not be your 9/10 — ScentPass keeps both. FILTER A HUGE CATALOGUE UNTIL YOU FIND IT A catalogue that runs from designer classics to niche houses, with a real filter panel instead of an endless list. • Filter by olfactory family and by the exact notes you want in • Narrow by olfactive gender, longevity and sillage • Pick the season and the time of day you are dressing for • Went too narrow? We tell you which single filter to drop to get results back BROWSE THE NOTES THEMSELVES Vanilla, oud, bergamot, vetiver, iris, amber, tonka, sandalwood, patchouli, musk. A whole screen for the raw materials behind every perfume, grouped by olfactory section and searchable. Open any note and see the fragrances built on it. DISCOVER SCENTS MADE FOR YOU • Suggestions based on the notes and families you already love • Turn "what should I wear today?" into an easy choice • Find niche gems you would never spot on your own FIND IT IN STORES Found something you love? Tap "Find in stores" and jump straight to shopping results for that exact fragrance. NOW IN THREE LANGUAGES ScentPass speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese — and so does the catalogue. Notes, accords and olfactory families are all translated, not just the buttons. WHY SCENTPASS • A beautiful, fast home for your whole fragrance journey • Free to use — your collection belongs to you • Whether you own 3 bottles or 300, ScentPass grows with you Start your Fragrance Passport today and never forget a scent again.

Screenshots

Drydown4 screens
ScentPass4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScentPass at 100% against Drydown's 20%. ScentPass also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Drydown's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Drydown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. ScentPass asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ScentPass holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 20% of Drydown's written reviews are positive against 100% of ScentPass's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drydown ships an update every 5 days, ScentPass every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Drydown versus ScentPass: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDrydownScentPass
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (7 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaurence YoungJose Manuel Cepero Gonzalez

Customer experience

Drydown

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%

ScentPass

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Drydown

Subscriptions2
  • Drydown Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Drydown Pro Annual$29.991 Year
None

ScentPass

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drydown free?
Drydown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ScentPass free?
ScentPass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drydown or ScentPass?
ScentPass is rated higher. Drydown averages 3.1 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while ScentPass averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Drydown or ScentPass have ads?
Neither Drydown nor ScentPass shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Drydown or ScentPass?
Drydown ships an update every 5 days, and ScentPass every 3 weeks. Most recently, Drydown was updated on September 20, 2026 and ScentPass on September 30, 2026.

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