212 VIP Black
Opening with a shot of licorice-bright anise and fennel, 212 VIP Black announces itself boldly, almost medicinal in its clarity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Fennel
- Anise
- Lavender
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOpening with a shot of licorice-bright anise and fennel, 212 VIP Black announces itself boldly, almost medicinal in its clarity. The fennel brings a green, slightly bitter edge that cuts through the sweetness of anise, creating an aromatic jolt that feels more herbal than gourmand. This isn't the soft pastis of a summer afternoon—it's sharper, more electric.
As it settles, lavender emerges with surprising restraint, tempering the initial intensity without losing the fragrance's angular character. The progression is linear rather than complex, maintaining that herbal-aromatic backbone throughout. Musk in the base adds skin-closeness but little warmth, keeping the overall effect cool and synthetic.
This is a fragrance for crowded spaces and late nights, designed for someone who wants to smell decisively different without wearing leather or smoke. The anise signature is persistent enough to be polarizing—those who find black licorice cloying will struggle here. It wears modern and unapologetic, a nightlife scent stripped of traditional masculine references.
Scent twins
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