Capitiú

SintetičkaZELENE NOTE, BILJE I FUŽERIsvež · zelen · aromatičan
Srednje notePiramida
3/5Jačina
—Trajnost
1Poreklo
Uzorak
Capitiú kao sirovina za parfeme
Srednje note
Siparuna guianensis Aubl.
Definicija

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

CVETNI ZELEN BILJNI SVEŽ BIBERAST
CAPA-TIU CAPITU
Type
Sirovina
Olfactive family
Aromatični
Source
leaves and flowering tops
Chemical class
complex natural (essential oil)
Instrumenti
Piramida
GGornje note
SSrednje note
BBazne note
3/5Jačina
Srednja
jačina mirisa
Zemlje proizvođači
Brazil

Miris

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.

Detaljno

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.

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

Zanimljivosti

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.'

Dobijanje i hemija

Način dobijanja

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

Formula
Key components: Myrcene, beta-Pinene, Atractylone, Curzerene, Germacrene D
CAS
N/A (no standardized CAS for capitiu essential oil)
Botanički naziv
Siparuna guianensis Aubl.
Izgled
Pale yellow to amber liquid
Jačina mirisa
Srednji
Sinonimi
CAPA-TIU CAPITU
Status prema standardima IFRA
Pogledajte napomenu

No IFRA Standard for the material itself (51st Amendment)

Fizička svojstva
Nota
Essential oil from leaves of Siparuna guianensis; used in Brazilian traditional medicine and emerging in perfumery

U parfemima

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.

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