Infinite Celtic
Star anise opens with a black-licorice snap that bergamot’s citrus oils immediately cut, creating a cool aromatic edge rather than sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Lily of the Valley
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a black-licorice snap that bergamot’s citrus oils immediately cut, creating a cool aromatic edge rather than sweetness. Lavender enters next, its clean herbal facets lifting the top while lily of the valley adds a crisp white-floral wateriness that keeps the heart airy. As the florals fade, tonka bean’s warm hay-like coumarin merges with sandalwood’s creamy wood, letting patchouli’s earthy leaf provide quiet structure without turning heavy. The dry-down stays soft and close, a muted almond-skin wood tinted by the lingering anise echo. Projection remains office-polite for about five hours, then settles into a lightly powdered shirt cuff. Works best in spring and early fall, especially under a cotton blazer or fresh denim.
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.
