Eternal Beauty
Star anise opens with a black-licorice snap, quickly cut by bergamot’s citrus lift, creating a cool-spark top that feels almost iced.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a black-licorice snap, quickly cut by bergamot’s citrus lift, creating a cool-spark top that feels almost iced. Cinnamon rushes in to warm the heart, dusting magnolia’s creamy petals and jasmine’s indolic bloom so the white bouquet reads as mulled rather than lush. The woods arrive early: sandalwood’s milky butter folds into vanilla’s custard sweetness, while Virginia cedar keeps the base dry and pencil-sharp, stopping the dessert from cloying. Within two hours the spices relax, leaving a skin of soft woods lightly sugar-dusted, close to skin but persistent. Projection stays polite—arm-length at best—making it office-safe; cool fall days show it brightest.
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.
