Description
Ginger Ciao is the bewitching heroine of a major
modern novella; she’s charismatic, daring, and
scintillating. Arabian sandalwood, ylang ylang,
and black coconut offer the undeniable allure of
faraway lands. While touches of Kenya lily,
basil, and ginger hint that our charming heroine
also has an audaciously intelligent alter ego.
This fragrance has enough seductions to go
around, but you’ll probably want to keep it all to
yourself.
PERFUMER’S NOTES:
How aware are you of each of your personas, such as the public face, the one people see when you go
to work or when you have to be “on”? Or the more intimate persona your close friends and family
know? Do you have a persona when you’re alone or on holiday? What about your alter ego? There are
at least four different facets to each person, and each deserves its own fragrance. Your perfume can
accessorize your moods or create new ones, anchoring you to the person you dream about becoming.
To me, Ginger Ciao is the ultimate heroine. She’s daring, adventurous, speaks her truth, and inspires
others to be their best. I notice that my energy level increases whenever I wear Ginger Ciao. I also
notice that whenever other people wear Ginger Ciao, their energy spikes. It’s a trans-aromation
thing—people stand up taller; they appear more confident and radiant; their eyes sparkle. Ginger Ciao
has a habit of taking center stage. So if you wear this one, be prepared to own the limelight.
FRAGRANCE FAMILY: Gourmand floral
CHAKRA: 2, relationship
NUMEROLOGY: 7, Spirituality, Wisdom
AFFIRMATION: Life excites me. Each moment is an adventure
COLOR: Sienna orange, courageous, daring, confident
The nose behind this fragrance is Yosh Han.
SenSeilldek – :
It’s bright, fizzy, effervescent.
If you were to make a pina colada with ginger ale instead of pineapple I feel like you’d get something very similar to this.
It’s fun, totally appropriate for the heat and not at all to sweet. Very easy to wear.
alexSTbfm1 – :
Ginger Ciao is a very sunny, life-affirming, tropical scent. The way that the ylang ylang, ginger, lily, and coconut are combined here delights me! The quality of the ginger here is exceptional. Gorgeous from start to finish.
Dmitrith – :
This is only tropical in the sense that it smells like heavy sunscreen from my youth–mid to late 80’s, or that sunless self tanner that we’ve all tried. That’s not a bad thing, it was a nice bit of nostalgia. I do get some ginger, although not much. A ton of basil and lily though, and too much lily and we’ve got a funeral home masquerading as a saucy tart on the beach. The coconut smooths it out a bit but not enough to make this overly likable for me. I’m only thankful that it’s not overly strong or tenacious—6 hours and it’s faded enough that it’s not going to give me a headache. There is just too much going on here and I don’t need or want to smell like self tanner and basil. I am fully aware this is mostly my chemistry, as there are so many that love this one.
dpa279Bessinepome – :
I bought this, along with 2 other Yosh perfumes on Hautelook having never smelled any of them. When I first wore it I didn’t like it all, it was way different than I have worn before, but I gave it a chance.
This perfume is now one of the few I have worn this summer. I get a blast of ginger when I first spray it, then just a touch of mild coconut mixed in. The drydown is a pleasant floral mix with the sandalwood thrown in. All in all an amazingly complex scent on me and I wish I bought more than one battle of it.
honey78-78 – :
Gorgeous sweet white floral that dries down with a dry finish. The top is all about the lily with some jasmine and ylang in there. This is not coconut tropical in scent. There is no detectable ginger. It is lovely.
irka_tsarapulka – :
I was not at all ‘bewitched’ by this fragrance. Maybe because I was trying to find the ginger hiding in the lilies and gave up, too much trouble.
cinar – :
This is a favorite of mine. I still love it after almost 10 years, which is almost never the case for me. It is especially surprising because I normally dislike orientals, finding them to be too strong and my skin doesn’t seem able to let them work. But this is different, it is sweet and rich but not too much of either, and the spiciness is soft with no harsh edges. The coconut shares space with the spices rather than becoming dominant, and it feels like a tropical night rather than a beachy scent. It’s great in cooler weather but also beautiful on warm nights. I like it anytime except for blazing hot, humid days. It’s one of the very rare perfumes that really works on me. My skin loves it!
aekaterina88 – :
Opens with a burst of ginger that fades pretty quickly into an interesting coconut/white floral. Very tropical. There’s a balance of the creaminess of the coconut with a very green 70’s style white floral (think Jontue or Anais Anais). There is a weird Thai Curry-like note that develops partway into the dry down, but it also disappears pretty quickly. I guess that’s the point where the basil combines with the coconut in just the right (or wrong) way, lol. I’m not a huge fan of this kind of soapy white floral so this is not really for me but it was likeable enough, and the addition of the creamy coconut was interesting and, I felt, worked quite well. Worth checking out at the very least.
korish – :
This was not as gingery as I’d hoped. The coconut is lovely but the ginger isn’t strong enough. The lily is super green and quite distracting. I thought it would be warmer and spicier but the sharp green lily throws the composition off.
DeniSSSR – :
Still feeling a bit buzzed from a scent I tried yesterday, Yosh Ginger Ciao. I was amazed by the warmth and the depth. I looked it up just to see why it was doing this to me, and found coconut. Yes coconut, and lots of it, but this is not your fun in the sun, beach blanket coconut. This is deep and rich and enduring and sophisticated. Ginger, ylang ylang, night blooming cereous, and sandalwood can really make a coconut note grow up and make you fantasize about it when it’s not even around.
vanchezz – :
To me, this smelled fresh and warm, like warm laundry?! Not in a bad way, just in a relaxing way. That must be the ylang ylang, I guess. And the spiciness of the ginger really blends well to me. I feel like this lasted quite a while and was a relatively strong scent, so kudos to that too!
roman1507 – :
I could’ve sworn there was jasmine in this.
doradion – :
Hi ginger 🙂
1. I get no coconut at all. None.
2. It is mostly a ginger/lily combo with some sandalwood lurking as an afterthought..
The lasting power is great, and the initial blast is so good that i would probably stock up for years had the fragrance remained a reach ginger confit it smells like in the beginning. But unfortunately it settles down fairly quickly to a bland-ish 9but VERY well made) spicy floral (lily centered i would say).
Good. But wouldn’t buy it since it reminds me of Chanel Beige but naughtier.
sunrisinggirl – :
Very refreshing scent that smells like fresh ginger with creamy ylang and coconut with other white florals keeping it light. The ginger is very pungent on my skin for the first 3 hours and then it blends more with the creamy white florals and coconut in the ensuing hours. This has good longevity on my skin and I find it both calming and refreshing at the same time. I may need an FB of this one.
kosmoplan – :
Sadly, this is a disappointment for me. It’s been on my want list for ages, as a lover of ginger and white flowers, it sounded gorgeous.
The lily overpowers this and I barely sense any ginger. There’s also a chemical undertone that is a definite deal breaker for me.
Such a pity!
djalexer777 – :
Overrated and pointless concoction in need of anti-schizophrenic notes. This wants to be green but it’s too creamy, wants to be spicy but comes across sweet. Terrible, too bad because the notes sounded good. Poor lasting power to boot (oil)
dimyn70 – :
Ginger Ciao 2.27 Yosh
Coconut and ginger combo! We get these 02 notes right on our faces since we spray it…lol
Then, in a few minutes, Ylang Ylang gives us a creamy and floral accord that makes me feel proud of this scent.
i feel also a “soapy” aroma during it evolution and the lily too (it is not strong o does not make the scent a powerful floral)
I like it.
On dry we get more ylang and coconut too.
Ginger only on the opening.
😀
bombardir84 – :
There is two categories of fragrances that I like mostly – the resinous and incense based and the other group created around heavy flowers. Ginger Ciao has something from both – heavy lily with full of honey cereus surrounded by woody coconut are build on the resinous ginger and ylang ylang base. In my opinion this perfume is heavy and created mostly for audience loving old fashioned creations. I can imagine ideas beyond the Ginger Ciao because many countries in the Far East has this kind of smell – airports, hotels, shopping centers… everywhere you are surrounded by this kind of flowers mixed with spicy ginger. I like it a lot, but in my opinion this fragrance is not for everyone, especially not for those people who is focused on modern incense based niche fragrances.
RobertRo – :
This is all-out sexy sultry and bold! The ginger isn’t flowery or powdered cooking spice – this is pure ginger root. It has a pungency similar to that of horseradish, but it’s earthy and sweet. Mixed with heady black coconut and cereus, this smells like a love spell brewed beneath a full moon on a hot Kona night.
Emil12 – :
My bottle of Ginger Caio oil came today and I am so thrilled with the fragrance, I cannot wait to show my mom this gem. Shalimar’s Ode de Vanille came today and I have been testing it, but it fades after a couple hours to a whiff of vanilla, after 3 reapplications of Ode De Vanilla, Ginger Caio is still standing! Ginger Caio evolves on your skin from a gingery coconut with vanilla for the first hour or so before it gently fades into a beautiful coconut, ylang ylang and sandalwood. Lasting power is FANTASTIC on my skin, well over 10 hours. I am so impressed with Yosh’s Sottile and Ginger Caio, but I am not sure their other offerings are quite as tempting. Sottile is the perfect, most fresh, nose stuffed in fresh bloomed tea rose fragrance I have ever found. I dont usually like rose scents unless they are very true to the flower and not synthetic or fake smelling, and yosh’s Sottile is just what I wanted, also great lasting power. I prefer Ginger Caio and will probably wear it more often, but they both are pretty close to perfect perfume oils, and my choice of which fragrance I pick is completely based on my mood or what I am doing. This is a fantastic original black coconut/ginger/ylang ylang fragrance. I own sage’s onyx as well, and the coconut is very similar, but the fragrances are completely different besides that, and Ginger Caio has much better lasting power along with the ginger/ylang ylang- onyx has different notes entirely. Yosh is just oil fragrance heaven!
zka1 – :
OK, this is pleasant, kind of “natural”, wearable – indeed – coconut, with a hint of sandalwood and flowers, but just like Onyx I have tested recently, it seems quite simple and straightforward (nothing mind blowing there – not for me – certainly not daring, energizing or adventurous as the perfumer describes it)and it is very light and does not last! I do not smell the basil or ginger (and I love both, so I was looking forward to this) and if there is anything “dark” in the coconut, then it’s an earthy, slightly sweetish kind of darkness (soil or forest floor), but certainly not “sexy” or “dirty” dark. As I said it’s pleasant, but the price doesn’t seem appropriate for this kind of light, simple fragrance. The sample I have received from Luckyscent.com is EDP, although this should really be oil (???), so perhaps that is the problem – maybe the oil is stronger and lasting longer…
mkp666 – :
Today (5/22/10) was the launch of the Evanecent Line of Yosh’s scents (Eau de Perfume Sprays).
It is sunny and cold here in San Francisco (55 F) as my partner and I made our way to Barneys NY. Yosh’s smile warmed us up from the bone chilling wind. We went through the 6 different Eau de Perfumes and decided to purchase “Ginger Ciao 2.27”.
The combination of black coconut, ginger, basil, arabian sandalwood, ylang ylang and neroli notes, we were able to take home the warmth and sensuality we felt from Yosh in a bottle.
The sandalwood gives this scent a creaminess to the oriental floral notes, making it wearable for all.