Black Absinthe
Fennel and star anise dominate the opening — herbal and anise-forward with a cool, almost medicinal edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Fennel
- Star Anise
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readFennel and star anise dominate the opening — herbal and anise-forward with a cool, almost medicinal edge. Cardamom adds warmth and bergamot provides a citrus frame, but neither breaks the anise character. The name fits: this is genuinely absinthe-adjacent in smell, with a botanical sharpness that many fragrances avoid.
Tonka bean and sandalwood arrive in the base, rounding the herbal sharpness into something more wearable. Vetiver grounds the finish without obscuring the anise direction. The whole composition resolves into a warm, slightly sweet herbal amber — the absinthe edge softened but still present in the dry-down.
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.
