KiKi
Star anise opens with licorice snap, peppery and slightly medicinal, setting a cool aromatic tone that persists as the composition unfolds.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Myrrh
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with licorice snap, peppery and slightly medicinal, setting a cool aromatic tone that persists as the composition unfolds. The heart introduces rose in a dry, pressed-petal form rather than dewy bloom, its powdery character amplified by iris that adds a cool, chalky violet facet. Tonka bean lands early, weaving coumarin sweetness through the heart and softening the anise edge while myrrh contributes a muted resinous shadow that keeps the sweetness restrained. Sandalwood emerges in the dry-down as a creamy blond wood that merges with the tonka to create a gentle, skin-skin aura reminiscent of vintage face powder with a trace of licorice still threading through. Projection stays close, radiating about arm’s length for four hours before settling into a whisper of sweet wood and iris that clings to fabric.
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.
