Le Roi Empereur
Lavender and anise open cool and sharply herbal, the anise adding a black-licorice snap that keeps the lavender from turning soapy.
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.
- Aromatic70
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Anise
- Cardamom
- Iris
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and anise open cool and sharply herbal, the anise adding a black-licorice snap that keeps the lavender from turning soapy. Within minutes the heart layers iris’s chilled chalk, violet’s watery petal, and a dry rose, while cardamom seeds the mix with a faint green heat that flutters between the flowers. Cinnamon soon warms the leather as cedar shavings and amber rise, tilting the scent from aromatic purples into a softly spiced wood-and-hide skin scent that lasts close but steady. Projection stays office-polite for roughly six hours, making it an easy wear for suited spring weekdays or crisp fall evenings when you want polish without announcement.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
