Grape Cake
Star anise opens with a licorice snap, immediately sweet and slightly medicinal, setting a candied tone that the fragrance never abandons.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Freesia
- Violet
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a licorice snap, immediately sweet and slightly medicinal, setting a candied tone that the fragrance never abandons. Freesia and violet arrive together in the heart, but their presence is sheer and soap-clean, creating a pastel floral haze that blunts the anise’s edge without fully replacing it. The musk base is clean and skin-close, pinning the earlier sweets to the body and letting the licorice echo softly for hours. What develops is a simple three-stage wash: spiced candy, powdered floral soap, then a whisper of sweet musk that stays within personal space. Projection is modest, best suited for spring office wear or casual weekend errands when you want a quiet, nostalgic confection rather than a statement.
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.
