Fantastic Man
Star anise opens with a black-licorice snap, quickly wrapped by cardamom's peppery heat and bergamot's metallic citrus edge.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Lavender
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a black-licorice snap, quickly wrapped by cardamom's peppery heat and bergamot's metallic citrus edge. Incense rises through the heart, its cold smoke pulling the opening spices into a grey, resinous haze while lavender injects a clean, slightly sweet herbal lift that keeps the composition from turning heavy. Oakmoss spreads a cool, wet-earth carpet beneath the incense, vetiver sharpening the green facet with raw, rooty bitterness, and patchouli adding a dry cocoa dust that lingers on skin. Projection stays arm-length for six hours, then collapses into a moss-patchouli skin whisper ideal for cool spring offices or autumn galleries.
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.
