Angelica Florae
Star anise opens with a sharp, licorice-sweet quality — distinctive and slightly unusual for a mainstream context.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Patchouli80
- Amber50
- Powdery50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a sharp, licorice-sweet quality — distinctive and slightly unusual for a mainstream context. The anise note is the entire opening statement here, with nothing else competing for attention in the top.
Patchouli forms the sole base note, shifting the composition toward an earthy, slightly dark depth. The pairing of anise and patchouli is unexpected — one sweet-herbal and sharp, the other earthy and heavy. The contrast is where whatever character this fragrance has lives.
With only two notes, this is extremely spare. The dry-down is a patchouli-dominant accord with fading anise sweetness. Confidence is low given the minimal pyramid, but the combination is genuinely interesting if the listed notes are accurate.
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.
