Very Irresistible Summer Sorbet
Star anise opens with a cool, licorice-tinged snap that immediately frames the bouquet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Herbal50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Peony
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a cool, licorice-tinged snap that immediately frames the bouquet. Peony’s aqueous petals soften the spice, while violet leaf adds a green, cucumber edge that keeps the heart airy rather than syrupy. Rose absolute emerges last, folding the earlier facets into a satin-pink floral that feels rinsed rather than rich. On skin the licorice note lingers for an hour, then dissolves into a transparent wash of petals that stays close to the body. Projection is polite, a forearm-length whisper perfect for office heat or humid weekend errands.
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.
