Rue Paradis
Star anise opens with a sharp, licorice snap that feels cool and slightly metallic against skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Mimosa
- Sandalwood
- Sandalwood
- Star Anise
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a sharp, licorice snap that feels cool and slightly metallic against skin. The mimosa heart arrives quickly, folding a fluffy, pollen-dusted yellow floral veil around the anise, softening its edges while letting the spice linger as a cool green thread. Sandalwood in the base steers the composition away from confection, adding a dry, creamy wood that absorbs the anise’s sweetness and anchors the mimosa’s airy glow. Over hours the anise recedes first, leaving a skinutty, hay-like mimosa resting on clean sandalwood with a faint, sweet-spiced echo. Projection stays within arm’s length for five hours, then sits closer as a skin-scented wood. The bright, breezy structure suits spring daytime wear, especially in mild, sunny weather.
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.