Eau de Zadig
Star anise and cardamom form a spiced opening with an herbal-anise character that's neither sweet nor sharp — dry and distinctive.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Herbal70
- Soft Spicy60
- Aromatic60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Cardamom
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise and cardamom form a spiced opening with an herbal-anise character that's neither sweet nor sharp — dry and distinctive. The clary sage in the heart reinforces this herbal register with its slightly earthy, ambiguous floral quality.
Tonka bean provides the base — soft, warm, slightly sweet and almond-adjacent. Note prior puts lavender and herbal accords at the top, reflecting how the clary sage and anise together create an aromatic herbal signature.
This is a minimalist construction: three note layers, each clearly legible. It reads as a soft aromatic fougere without the fougere's usual lavender-coumarin scaffolding. Leans unisex, suited to casual daytime wear in cooler weather.
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.
