Kiss Me Tender
Kiss Me Tender opens with an unusual pairing: star anise prickling against orange blossom, the licorice edge keeping the floral from going syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Vanilla80
- Cinnamon60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Orange Blossom
- Cinnamon
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readKiss Me Tender opens with an unusual pairing: star anise prickling against orange blossom, the licorice edge keeping the floral from going syrupy. It reads cool and a little odd at first, like a marzipan box that someone added pepper to.
The heart warms quickly. Cinnamon and ylang-ylang fold in, and heliotrope brings a powdery, almond-pastry sweetness that pulls everything toward dessert without quite getting there. Vanilla and opoponax in the base anchor it as a soft resinous hum rather than a gourmand.
The overall character is plush and slightly retro — close to the skin, persistent, with a baked-sweet warmth that suits cool evenings.
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.
