Douro
Douro is a Portuguese cologne with a barbershop accent.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 1 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.
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The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Basil
- Lime
- Lemon
- Neroli
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readDouro is a Portuguese cologne with a barbershop accent. The opening is a cool citrus chord — bergamot, lemon, and a faint mandarin — sharpened by anise and a slip of fresh pine that reads more shaving cream than forest.
The heart sets neroli and lavender against a green geranium and a quiet jasmine, with juniper threading through. It's dry rather than floral, and the construction shows its 2004 vintage by being built like an old eau de Portugal — uncomplicated, well-mannered, no gourmand sweetening. Pickthall trusted the citrus and the herbs to carry it.
The drydown is oakmoss, sandalwood, and a soft musk over patchouli, with cedarwood holding the line. Three to four hours of light presence, projection modest. Best in warm weather, before noon, on freshly shaven skin. Discontinued by Penhaligon's, which is its own kind of recommendation.
Scent twins
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