Vetiver di Java
Star anise opens with a black-licorice snap that bergamot’s citrus oil shears into a crisp, cool top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Tonka Bean
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a black-licorice snap that bergamot’s citrus oil shears into a crisp, cool top. Vetiver seizes the centre, its grass-root smoke drying the anise’s sweetness and letting cedar splinters push through. Tonka folds in, adding a faint almond-coumarin roundness that keeps the vetiver from turning brittle. Over two hours the licorice haze retreats, leaving a clean, blond-wood skin scent threaded with soft tobacco facets. Projection stays within handshake range; office-safe wear for cool spring mornings or shaded summer patios.
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.