Auster
Star anise opens with a black-licorice snap that is immediately sliced by sharp lemon, creating a bittersweet, almost medicinal coolness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Lemon
- Clove
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a black-licorice snap that is immediately sliced by sharp lemon, creating a bittersweet, almost medicinal coolness. The heart drops temperature further as clove folds its dental chill into the anise, turning the accord into a dry, aromatic ice that prickles the nose. Beneath this, sandalwood and cedar lay a clean, blond-wood plank polished by salty ambergris, while patchouli adds a quiet cocoa-earth shadow and musk acts like chilled marble. Over hours the lemon evaporates, leaving the anise-clove duet to hover like frosted breath above the cool mineral woods, never fully sweetening. Projection stays arm-length and angular, perfect for spring office days or a summer dusk terrace.
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.
