Navegar
Navegar is Bertrand Duchaufour's spiced-rum study, named after the Portuguese verb for sailing.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Rum70
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
- Lime
- Black Pepper
- Star Anise
- Rum
By the editors · 2 min readNavegar is Bertrand Duchaufour's spiced-rum study, named after the Portuguese verb for sailing. The opening hits hard with ginger, pink pepper and lime — a cocktail-bright top note that telegraphs exactly what's coming.
The heart pulls into rum and star anise, with black pepper sustaining the heat. There's no sweetness here despite the rum cue; the composition stays dry and resinous. Frankincense, cedar and a smoky guaiac wood take over in the drydown, giving the fragrance an almost colonial-tropical character — wood, smoke, salt-air rum.
Projects more in heat and humidity than its niche provenance suggests. A summer-evening fragrance for someone tired of citrus colognes.
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.
