Benevolence
Star anise opens with a sweet, liquorice-like aniseed warmth alongside almond's marzipan note and a clean bergamot lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Almond50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Almond
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a sweet, liquorice-like aniseed warmth alongside almond's marzipan note and a clean bergamot lift. The combination reads soft and confectionary from the first seconds.
The heart layers lavender — dry and slightly aromatic — over jasmine and orange blossom, the florals creamy and indolic-light. The lavender keeps the sweetness from going cloying and adds a faint apothecary-pastry tension.
The drydown is built almost entirely on Madagascar vanilla and white musk, producing a soft, powdery, sugar-cookie warmth with a faint floral echo still audible. The overall character is a sweet, almondy floriental with a vanilla-lavender backbone — comforting, close-wearing, and pitched for cool-weather casual or evening wear. Projection stays modest after the first hour.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
