Classique Gold Collection
Star anise opens with a black-licorice snap that feels almost chilled, letting the rose beneath read cool and soap-petal clean rather than honeyed.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Rose
- Ginger
- Orange Blossom
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a black-licorice snap that feels almost chilled, letting the rose beneath read cool and soap-petal clean rather than honeyed. Ginger slices through the heart, heating the orange blossom until it turns from creamy white to sharp, peppery citrus-floral, while the anise keeps circling back to lend a faintly medicinal edge. Amber lands early, thickening the blend so the spices don’t float away; within an hour vanilla folds in, softening the ginger’s bite and letting the orange blossom sugar-coat itself. Dry-down stays close: a warm, powdered amber-vanilla with a ghost of licorice that prevents the sweetness from turning bakery. Projection hovers at arm’s length for six hours, then settles to skin, making it an easy cold-weather office scent that won’t announce itself across a room.
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.