Patchouli Blanc
Star anise opens with a cool aniseed snap that reads almost camphorous before settling.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Star Anise
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a cool aniseed snap that reads almost camphorous before settling. The pyramid hands off quickly to a base built around clean white musk, creamy sandalwood, and patchouli sanded down with amber. The patchouli here is the bright, head-shop reading rather than the damp earthy version, which gives the composition a faintly powdered glow.
Development is mostly linear after the anise burns off. What remains is a soft woody-amber haze hanging close to fabric, with patchouli giving structure and the musk smoothing seams. Gentle, uncomplicated, easy to wear in mild weather without crowding a room.
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.
