Esoteric
Anise snaps open with a cool, slightly bitter licorice edge that quickly folds into jasmine’s creamy petals, turning the top from black-candy snap to white-flower glow.
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.
- Aromatic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Anise
- Jasmine
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAnise snaps open with a cool, slightly bitter licorice edge that quickly folds into jasmine’s creamy petals, turning the top from black-candy snap to white-flower glow. The jasmine heart keeps the ride luminous, steering the composition away from louche territory and laying a silky bridge to the base. Vetiver then cuts through with dry grass and a hint of smoke, while ambergris-style amber adds a salt-skin warmth and musk sits low, extending the licorice shadow without sweetness. On skin the anise re-emerges in pulses, fluttering against the clean musk for a quiet skin-scent finish that stays intriguingly aromatic rather than gourmand. Projection stays close, a forearm-length veil perfect for office days or cool spring evenings when you want character without announcement.
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.
