Chamma da Amazonia
Amazonian botanical perfumery from Belém since 1960.
Oscar Chamma, a Lebanese-Brazilian chemist with a passion for the rainforest, registered his perfume brand in 1960 and set up his first workshop facing the Ver-o-Peso market in Belém, drawing on Amazon botanicals that the French-dominated fragrance trade had barely considered. Guided by his wife and niece Nazira, he combined forest ingredients — resins, roots, flowers, and exotic woods — with imported raw materials to build a house whose identity was inseparable from the biodiversity surrounding it. In 1990 his daughter Fátima added Amazônia to the name, signalling a new chapter of international ambition. Today, Chamma da Amazônia is regarded as a pioneer of Amazonian natural perfumery, its compositions evoking humid jungles, river mist, and equatorial heat while remaining accessible to everyday wear. The family business is now in its third generation and continues to champion the forest as both inspiration and resource.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
