Wood Absinth
The opening lands with a sharp green-anise breath, star anise and clary sage trading licorice cool against a bright orange peel.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Aromatic85
- Herbal70
- Woody70
- Green
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Orange
- Clary Sage
- Jasmine
- Vetiver
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening lands with a sharp green-anise breath, star anise and clary sage trading licorice cool against a bright orange peel. There is a deliberate herbal edge here, the kind that reads as bitter wormwood even though the actual ingredient is sage.
A lone jasmine bridges the top to the base without ever turning floral on its own. Within an hour the wood frame takes over, vetiver dry and rooty, cedar pencil-shaving sharp.
The overall character stays austere and aromatic from start to finish. There is no sweetness, no powder, no amber softening. It reads more like a cool damp herb garden bordered by raw timber than anything resembling a traditional fougere.
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.
