Sol de Janeiro

What the Sol de Janeiro range is made of

Across the 27 Sol de Janeiro fragrances Zenyra has mapped, the materials that recur most are jasmine (48%), vanilla (48%), sandalwood (30%). No single note dominates, which is itself a choice — this is a house that works across a palette rather than around a signature material.

On Zenyra's five axes the house reads sweeter than the catalogue as a whole: sweetness averages 0.77 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

Sol de Janeiro releases variations on a theme. Measured as the average spread of its fragrances across all five axes, the range scores 0.093 — narrow. Someone who likes one Sol de Janeiro fragrance is unusually likely to like the next, and someone who dislikes one probably will not find the exception further down the range.

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