Home of Saudade was born from a Portuguese feeling that has no direct translation. Saudade. That deep longing for something you love that is far away... A place, a culture, a version of yourself that belongs somewhere else.

We started with Portugal. But Saudade isn't exclusively Portuguese. It lives in every immigrant who built a life abroad without forgetting where they came from. In every child raised between two cultures. In every person who feels proud of their roots but has nowhere to show it.

César & Maria grew up in Angra do Heroísmo, Azores, the city that was capital of Portugal twice. Perhaps that's where the stubbornness to build a brand about Portuguese identity and pride comes from, in a world that rarely stops to think about what it means to be Portuguese outside of Portugal.