Hermessence Brin de Reglisse Hermès
Brin de Réglisse is pure Jean-Claude Ellena: four materials, no excess.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Lavender65
- Incense35
- Musk30
- Green25
- Orange20
By the editors · 2 min readBrin de Réglisse is pure Jean-Claude Ellena: four materials, no excess. Orange blossom barely registers at the opening before lavender and licorice take hold — the titular accord, herbal and medicinal and genuinely distinctive. The licorice is not anise-candy but the actual root: dark, slightly bitter, damp earth. Hay in the base dries everything toward a clean, almost ghostly finish.
The entire composition hovers near the skin from the first hour. Sillage is minimal by design — this is a fragrance for those who appreciate that restraint can be a form of sophistication. A Hermessence that rewards proximity and disdains performance.
