No 1
Star anise opens with a sharp, warm-spicy licorice note that immediately establishes a bold aromatic character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Tobacco60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Damask Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Tobacco
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a sharp, warm-spicy licorice note that immediately establishes a bold aromatic character. Damask rose follows, its deep floralcy softening the spice with a velvety, slightly sweet presence. Sandalwood and cedar emerge in the heart, their creamy and dry woody textures blending with the earthy, aromatic tobacco leaf. Ambergris, vanilla, and musk form a warm, musky-sweet base that feels resinous and skin-like. The composition evolves from spicy-floral to a woody, ambery dry-down over several hours. It projects moderately at first, settling close to the skin with good longevity, suited for cool weather evenings.
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.
