Cypress Shade
Star anise pairs with lemon and bergamot at the top, the anise adding a licorice-tinged warmth that complicates the 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Mint
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise pairs with lemon and bergamot at the top, the anise adding a licorice-tinged warmth that complicates the citrus brightness. The opening is aromatic and slightly herbal, leaning Mediterranean.
Petitgrain extends the cool green-citrus thread while mint adds a fresh chill and mimosa softens the heart with a powdery yellow-floral lift. The combination keeps the composition shaded green throughout the middle, never tipping into warmth.
Vetiver and cedar settle into a dry, slightly smoky woody base that grounds the herbal opening into something more substantial. The dry-down reads as a clean cypress-grove walk, quiet and focused. The arc projects modestly and lasts moderately, with little drama in development. Aromatic citrus done with restraint.
Scent twins
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