Absinthe Minded
Fennel and anise open loud and bittersweet, releasing a bracing licorice snap edged with grassy heat.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Herbal90
- Mossy80
- Patchouli70
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Fennel
- Anise
- Patchouli
- Oakmoss
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readFennel and anise open loud and bittersweet, releasing a bracing licorice snap edged with grassy heat. Patchouli slides in underneath, its camphorous earth tamping the confectionery glare while feeding a muted cocoa facet to the herbs. Oakmoss soon stiffens the texture, knitting a cool, loamy carpet that keeps the heart from turning syrupy; amber arrives late as a quiet, resinous glow, warming the edges without adding sugar. On skin the licorice slowly dries to a dusty, slightly salty green that feels like crushed bar herbs left on weathered wood. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it a clever cool-weather choice for cafés, bookshops or gallery openings where an aromatic statement won’t overwhelm.
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.