Very Irresistible Sparkling Edition
Star anise opens with a cool, licorice snap that crackles against the skin for the first ten minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Magnolia
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a cool, licorice snap that crackles against the skin for the first ten minutes. Magnolia steps in quickly, its lemon-cream petals softening the anise’s edge while peony adds watery green volume; together they form a sheer floral veil rather than a distinct heart phase. Rose absolute arrives late, threading a faintly spicy, honeyed redness through the veil so the composition never drifts into shampoo territory. The dry-down stays close, a skin-level hum of soft rose and residual anise warmth that feels like chilled floral tea spilled on a wrist and left to evaporate. Projection remains polite, projecting no farther than a handshake, yet the rose echo lingers six hours. Spring brunches, outdoor weddings, or any occasion where you want a whisper of licorice-kissed flowers without announcing fragrance.
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.
