Or de Calambac
Star anise crackles like black licorice over a sprinkle of pink pepper, instantly sweet-bitter and nose-tickling.
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.
- Cinnamon70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Pink Pepper
- Tonka Bean
- Cinnamon
- Cocoa
- Hazelnut
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise crackles like black licorice over a sprinkle of pink pepper, instantly sweet-bitter and nose-tickling. The heart folds in roasted hazelnut and dusty cocoa, letting cinnamon ride the seams so the accord smells like spiced praline still warm from the pan. Tonka bean smooths the edges, adding a faint almond-coumarin creaminess that keeps the nuts from turning brittle. As the gourmand haze settles, guaiac and vetiver push through with dry smoke and cooled earth, while myrrh and labdanum supply a quiet resinous amber that glues wood to skin for hours. Projection stays at arm’s length, perfect for cool autumn evenings or a fireside date when you want to smell edible rather than loud.
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.