Cio Cio San
The opening is a juicy citrus-and-ginger flash: yuzu's zesty bitterness, lime's sharper green tang, grapefruit's faint sulphurous lift, and ginger contributing a cool burn.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Tropical50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Yuzu
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Peony
- Lychee
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a juicy citrus-and-ginger flash: yuzu's zesty bitterness, lime's sharper green tang, grapefruit's faint sulphurous lift, and ginger contributing a cool burn. The effect is sparkling and brisk.
The heart turns soft and fruit-floral as peony and lychee emerge — the peony watery and dewy, the lychee tropical-rosy with a faint waxiness. The fruit-floral pairing reads transparent rather than syrupy.
The base is restrained: cedar dry and pencil-shaving woody, with a clean musk smoothing the seams. There is no amber or vanilla to weight the close. The overall character is a fresh, fruity-floral with a citrus-spice lift and a quiet woody finish — feminine, projecting modestly, and pitched for warm-weather daytime wear with a sparkling, near-sheer register.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
