Classique Summer Fragrance 2009
Star anise opens with a cool, licorice snap that immediately drapes the orange blossom’s honeyed petals in a slightly medicinal sheen.
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
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
- Ginger
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a cool, licorice snap that immediately drapes the orange blossom’s honeyed petals in a slightly medicinal sheen. Within minutes the heart blooms: ginger adds a peppery heat that keeps the ylang-yl and jasmine from turning syrupy, while lily-of-the-valley injects a watery green edge and iris dusts everything in a dry, violet-like powder. The amber-vanilla base arrives early, folding the spices and florals into a warm, skin-hugging custard that feels more beach-cream than bakery. Wear it loose and unbuttoned: projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, perfect for humid summer nights when you want soft spice without the sweat amplifier.
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.
