Zizonia
Zizonia opens with a luminous citrus — bergamot, mandarin, and a slip of pink pepper — over a green, almost leafy violet that smells more cut-stem than candied.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Lavender90
- Amber50
- Patchouli50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
By the editors · 2 min readZizonia opens with a luminous citrus — bergamot, mandarin, and a slip of pink pepper — over a green, almost leafy violet that smells more cut-stem than candied. The first half hour reads as a polite tea, sugar held in check.
The heart drifts toward orchard and softness: peach, jasmine, and freesia rounded by orris, all carried on a creamy backdrop. There is sweetness here but it never tips into gourmand. It behaves like a powdered floral wrapped in fruit, slightly old-fashioned in the most flattering sense.
The base settles into sandalwood and cedar with patchouli and a clean musk underneath. Three to five hours of soft presence, intimate projection. A fragrance for daylight, work, the kind of weather where layers come off before lunch.
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.
