Garota de Ipanema
Named after the iconic bossa nova composition, Garota de Ipanema opens with pear, apricot, and Italian mandarin — a ripe, warm-weather fruit accord that suggests the heat and sweetness of a Brazilian afternoon.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Italian Mandarin
- Apricot
- Licorice
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readNamed after the iconic bossa nova composition, Garota de Ipanema opens with pear, apricot, and Italian mandarin — a ripe, warm-weather fruit accord that suggests the heat and sweetness of a Brazilian afternoon. The heart introduces lily of the valley, peony, and rose in a familiar commercial floral arrangement, with one distinguishing detail: a licorice note threads a faintly anise-tinged softness through the bouquet that prevents the fragrance from becoming purely generic.
White musk, sandalwood, and amber close the composition into a clean, skin-adjacent drydown. The licorice accent in the heart is the most characterful moment.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
