Acqua Brasilis
Acqua Brasilis is a 1998 release that captures a late-summer warmth: bergamot, lemon, and basil open with bright herbal clarity before the heart shifts toward ripe softness — apricot's furred sweetness, fig's green-milky pull, and damask rose threading through both without dominating either.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Amber45
- Vanilla35
- Rose30
- Caramel
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Apricot
- Fig
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAcqua Brasilis is a 1998 release that captures a late-summer warmth: bergamot, lemon, and basil open with bright herbal clarity before the heart shifts toward ripe softness — apricot's furred sweetness, fig's green-milky pull, and damask rose threading through both without dominating either. It reads like a tropical take on the European fruity-chypre format of its era, with a Brazilian warmth replacing the cooler precision of its Continental contemporaries.
The base arrives cleanly: tonka bean and sandalwood lay down a polished warmth, amber adding depth, musk keeping it wearable without heaviness. It wears closer to an evening casual than a daytime fresh despite the citrus opening. The structure holds up well for its age — nothing dated about the underlying bones.
Scent twins
In this family
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