Acqua di Teriaca
Star anise opens with a black-licorice snap, quickly chilled by bergamot’s metallic citrus edge, creating a bittersweet top that feels almost medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Styrax
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a black-licorice snap, quickly chilled by bergamot’s metallic citrus edge, creating a bittersweet top that feels almost medicinal. The heart pulls in rugged leather, sticky labdanum and smoky styrax; the resinous duo lacquers the hide, giving a tarry, honeyed thickness that muffles the anise glow rather than erasing it. As skin heat rises, oud and castoreum add an oily animal growl, while ambergris salts the base and lifts the dense resin mass so the leather never cloys. Dry-down remains a salty, musky leather-amber accord with a faint licorice shadow that lingers on cuffs. Projection stays arm’s-length for six hours, darker and quieter after two, ideal for cool evenings and layered knitwear.
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.
