Sol de Janeiro — Sol Cheirosa 62
Essence
Sol Cheirosa 62 is the Brazilian Bum Bum Cream scent in fragrance form: pistachio, almond, heliotrope, jasmine, vanilla, salted caramel, and sandalwood. It is sunny, sweet, beachy, and instantly recognizable. The dossier’s key correction is format: the flagship product behaves like a light perfume mist, even though the catalog currently lists EDP.
Scent Profile
The opening is creamy pistachio with almond. Pistachio gives the scent its signature hook, sweet and toasted rather than green. Almond adds a marzipan-like roundness. The heart uses heliotrope and jasmine for texture. Heliotrope bridges the nutty top and vanilla base with powdery almond softness; jasmine adds lift without becoming a distinct floral. The fragrance remains gourmand rather than floral. The drydown is salted caramel, vanilla, and sandalwood. The caramel is warm and buttery, the vanilla soft, and the sandalwood creamy rather than dry. The result is mostly linear: pistachio-salted caramel and vanilla from start to finish, fading rather than transforming.
Performance
Performance is limited by the mist format. Projection is light to moderate early and soft later. Skin longevity is the recurring complaint, while hair and clothing last longer. Layering with Brazilian Bum Bum Cream, body oil, or shower products extends wear and makes the scent feel fuller. Heat helps it bloom; cold weather mutes it.
Wearing Context
This is a spring-and-summer casual scent: brunch, vacation, errands, school runs, weekend wear, and easy daytime sweetness. It can work year-round for people who want a warm comfort gourmand, but formal events and conservative offices are not ideal. Socially it reads feminine-leaning, young, and playful because of its viral beauty context.
Comparisons & DNA
Cheirosa 62 is the original Sol de Janeiro gourmand reference. Cheirosa 71 is richer and more wintery, 68 is fruity floral, 40 is plum-vanilla, and 87 is solar coconut floral. Outside the line, Prada Candy shares caramel-vanilla warmth with more depth, Lancome La Vie Est Belle offers joyful sweetness in a stronger format, Ariana Grande Cloud is another accessible sweet-musky reference, and Elie Saab Girl of Now gives a more structured pistachio-almond idea. Cheirosa 62 also generated a large field of affordable pistachio and dessert-mist alternatives.
Reception
Reception is huge, positive, and polarized by overexposure. Fans praise the pistachio-salted-caramel accord, compliment factor, vacation mood, and value. Critics point to longevity, sweetness, synthetic edges, and the fact that it became associated with very young viral beauty culture. Value sentiment is strongest when judged as a cheerful body mist, not as a long-wearing perfume.
Versions & Reformulation
The Cheirosa 62 mist is the same scent family as the original Brazilian Crush Cheirosa ’62 body-and-hair fragrance mist and the Brazilian Bum Bum Cream ecosystem. No widely reported reformulation controversy is documented. The key issue is concentration: the dossier states that the flagship product is a perfume mist of lighter concentration, while the catalog currently lists EDP.
Acquisition Notes
It is widely sold through Sol de Janeiro, Sephora, Ulta, Space NK, Boots, and other major retailers in 90 ml and 240 ml mist sizes. Decants are not important because the product is accessible. Third-party marketplace listings can carry fakes or old stock, so authorized retailers are preferred. The pistachio note is synthetic and the product is formulated without tree nuts.
Notable Facts & Lore
- The “62” references 1962 and the Girl from Ipanema era.
- Jerome Epinette is documented by the brand as building the scent around pistachio, vanilla, salted caramel, and joyful florals.
- The scent began as the Brazilian Bum Bum Cream smell.
- It helped define the early-2020s sweet body-mist boom.
- A late-2023 viral rumor about Sol de Janeiro products attracting spiders was false but amplified the brand’s visibility.