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Star anise opens with a clean, slightly medicinal sharpness — more spice than candy at first, though it signals something sweeter is on the way.
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.
- Floral70
- White Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a clean, slightly medicinal sharpness — more spice than candy at first, though it signals something sweeter is on the way. Jasmine and lily of the valley soften the entry, adding a light floral lift that keeps the composition from feeling too linear. The lily of the valley in particular gives a soapy freshness that offsets the anise's edge.
Almond anchors the base, pulling everything toward a soft, marzipan-adjacent warmth. The combination of white florals and almond is gentle and approachable. This wears close to skin, making it feel personal rather than declarative — a quiet, dessert-tinged floral.
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.
