Fleur de Réglisse
Star anise opens with a distinct, soft-spicy licorice warmth that immediately establishes a herbal and aromatic character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Violet
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a distinct, soft-spicy licorice warmth that immediately establishes a herbal and aromatic character. Violet and rose emerge swiftly, their powdery and floral qualities blending into a delicate, almost candied heart accord. Vanilla enters the dry-down, adding a smooth, sweet creaminess that softens the composition's edges significantly. Patchouli provides a subtle, earthy grounding note that prevents the sweetness from becoming overly simplistic or cloying. The overall wear is linear with a gentle evolution from spicy-aromatic top to a soft, sweet-powdery base. Projection remains intimate after the first hour, settling close to the skin with moderate longevity best suited for cooler weather and casual daytime occasions.
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.
