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Capitiú

GREENS, HERBS AND FOUGERES  /  fresh · green · aromatic
Capitiú
Capitiú perfume ingredient
CategoryGREENS, HERBS AND FOUGERES
Subcategoryfresh · green · aromatic
Origin
VolatilityHeart Note
BotanicalSiparuna guianensis Aubl.
AppearancePale yellow to amber liquid
Odor StrengthMedium
Producing CountriesBrazil
PyramidHeart

Green, river-earthy, piscine. Capitiu is an Amazonian scent concept — river fish, muddy banks, aquatic vegetation. Strange and hyper-specific.

  1. Scent
  2. The Full Story
  3. Fun Fact
  4. Extraction & Chemistry
  5. In Perfumery

Scent

Green-aquatic, earthy-muddy, faint piscine undertone. River water, not ocean. Geosmin-rich, vegetal, humid. The smell of an Amazonian riverbank at dawn — specific, strange, realistic rather than pleasant.

Evolution over time

Immediately

Immediately

Green-aquatic, muddy, faint fish note
After a few hours

After a few hours

Earthy geosmin depth, humid vegetation
After a few days

After a few days

Persistent earthy-aquatic residue, river memory

The Full Story

Capitiu is Brazilian Portuguese for a particular Amazonian river smell — freshwater fish, river mud, aquatic plants. Not a single ingredient but an olfactory concept embedded in Amazonian culture.

The perfumery note is synthetic — combining aquatic-green elements, earthy-muddy components (geosmin, vetiver-type), and faint fishy-marine notes (heavily attenuated trimethylamine derivatives).

In Western perfumery, essentially unknown. Its appearance in niche Brazilian perfumery represents encoding Amazonian terroir into fragrance form.

Some associate it with Siparuna guianensis, whose crushed leaves have pungent, green, slightly fishy scent containing citronellol and geraniol.

This note in Première Peau. Simili Mirage · Gravitas Capitale. Sample all seven extraits in the Discovery Set.

Related: Alpha Pinene · Angelica · Angelica Root · Angelica Root Oil · Artemisia · Barrenwort · Beachheather · Behini Tree

Did You Know?

Did you know?
The capitiu scent comes partly from geosmin — the same molecule in petrichor. Freshwater fish absorb geosmin from cyanobacteria, concentrating it in flesh — which is why river fish sometimes smell 'muddy.'

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method: No standard extraction. May reference Siparuna guianensis essential oil or be entirely synthetic.

Molecular FormulaKey components: Myrcene, beta-Pinene, Atractylone, Curzerene, Germacrene D
CAS NumberN/A (no standardized CAS for capitiu essential oil)
Botanical NameSiparuna guianensis Aubl.
IFRA StatusNo known restrictions
SynonymsCAPA-TIU · CAPITU
Physical Properties
Odor StrengthMedium
AppearancePale yellow to amber liquid

In Perfumery

Extreme niche/regional concept encoding Amazonian environmental scent. Built from aquatic-green synthetics, geosmin, vetiver-type earthiness. Functions in avant-garde or Amazonian-themed compositions. Culturally specific, deliberately challenging.

From the raw to the worn

This is what it becomes.