Essence by Reminiscence
Star anise opens with a sharp, almost medicinal sweetness, immediately tempered by bergamot's citrus brightness.
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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a sharp, almost medicinal sweetness, immediately tempered by bergamot's citrus brightness. The combination reads clean but slightly herbal, with a directional quality that feels more unisex than overtly masculine or feminine.
Nutmeg and jasmine develop in the heart — the spice is dry and warm rather than sweet, and jasmine contributes a quiet floral undertone without dominating. The pairing keeps the mid-stage grounded.
Sandalwood and Virginia cedar settle the base into a soft, woody drydown, with patchouli adding an earthy undercurrent. The overall profile is a spiced aromatic woody — restrained, moderately linear, and closer to the skin than it first suggests.
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.
