Dior Star
Dior Star leads with a clean citrus opening — bergamot, petitgrain, and mandarin orange in a combination that reads fresh and slightly bitter, the petitgrain keeping the sweet mandarin from tipping into candy territory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Musky60
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
- Honeysuckle
- Peony
By the editors · 2 min readDior Star leads with a clean citrus opening — bergamot, petitgrain, and mandarin orange in a combination that reads fresh and slightly bitter, the petitgrain keeping the sweet mandarin from tipping into candy territory. The heart is a simple floral pair: peony and honeysuckle, both delicate and slightly sweet, adding softness without introducing complexity.
Almond in the base is the composition's most distinctive element, introducing a warm, slightly gourmand quality that the heart hadn't signaled, and musk extends the warm register through the drydown. It's a fragrance of its era — mid-2000s mainstream Dior — agreeable and undemanding, with the almond providing the one unexpected turn.
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.
