Gia
Gia opens with tangerine and bergamot, pink pepper adding a dry, sparkling spice that gives the citrus a more interesting edge than it would have alone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Tuberose65
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Tangerine
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readGia opens with tangerine and bergamot, pink pepper adding a dry, sparkling spice that gives the citrus a more interesting edge than it would have alone. It is an upbeat, expectation-setting opening for what follows.
The heart is genuinely opulent: tuberose, ylang-ylang, rose, and iris arrive as a full bouquet of white and warm florals — tuberose's creamy narcotic sweetness, ylang-ylang's exotic warmth, rose's classic depth, iris's cool powdery balance. This is a rich heart, densely layered, projecting accordingly.
Sandalwood, vetiver, amber, vanilla, and patchouli provide a warm, multidimensional base that sustains the florals and adds oriental depth. The full arc — citrus spice to rich floral to warm woody-oriental — is well-executed and coherent. Gia rewards wearing on the right occasion: it is too dense for understated everyday use, too warm and rich to disappear quietly.
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.
