Fragrance houses

Sol de Janeiro

27 fragrances, mapped across five axes.

What the Sol de Janeiro range is made of

56% of the 27 Sol de Janeiro fragrances Zenyra has mapped contain vanilla. A house can be described by what it returns to, and Sol de Janeiro returns to vanilla more than to anything else — across 27 releases that is a position rather than a coincidence.

On Zenyra's five axes the house reads sweeter than the catalogue as a whole: sweetness averages 0.76 against 0.40 across all mapped fragrances. That is a wide margin, and it is the clearest thing the data says about this house.

One idea, or many

The Sol de Janeiro range spreads 0.114 across the five axes — neither a house built on one idea nor one that covers the whole map. There is a recognisable centre with real variation around it.

The median release year across the mapped range is 2023, which places this house firmly in the current era of perfumery rather than the archive.

Where Sol de Janeiro sits

Warmth0.57 vs 0.49 catalogue
Projection0.43 vs 0.51 catalogue
Risk0.34 vs 0.34 catalogue
Texture0.55 vs 0.48 catalogue
Sweetness0.76 vs 0.40 catalogue

Every Sol de Janeiro fragrance

These are the same five axes behind The Fragrance Taste Index, which maps all 5,320 fragrances. To find where your own taste sits, take the fragrance quiz.