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Fennel snaps open with a cool, anise-green bite that feels like crushed twigs.
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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.
- Tuberose90
- Aromatic60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Fennel
- Tuberose
- Neroli
- Clary Sage
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readFennel snaps open with a cool, anise-green bite that feels like crushed twigs. Tuberose sweeps in almost immediately, its creamy white petals sweetening the anise and turning the heart into a seaside garden after rain; neroli adds a faintly bitter orange shimmer while clary sage keeps the white Floral airy rather than narcotic. Ambergris washes everything in a salty, skin-warmed musk that smells like tide-line driftwood, and vetiver threads dry grass through the bloom so the sweetness never cloys. Over four hours the flowers recede, leaving a sun-bleached amber skin scent that still carries a trace of fennel snap. Projection stays within arm’s length; perfect for breezy spring afternoons or a casual dockside dinner.
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.



