Kouros Eau de Toilette Tonique 2014
Star anise opens with a sharp, licorice-tinged bite that slices through bergamot’s sunlit sparkle, creating a cool aromatic snap that feels almost mentholated.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
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- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Incense
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise opens with a sharp, licorice-tinged bite that slices through bergamot’s sunlit sparkle, creating a cool aromatic snap that feels almost mentholated. The heart drops the brightness and lets patchouli take over, its earthiness drying the anise’s sweetness and adding a camphoraceous hum that bridges the cool opening to the resinous base. Virginia cedar arrives early in the dry-down, its pencil-shaving woodiness stitching incense and frankincense into a single ashen ribbon that smolders close to the skin for hours. Projection stays polite, a low-lying haze rather than a room-filling cloud, making it workable under office air-conditioning when temperatures climb. The composition is linear once the anise folds into the incense, so what you smell at minute thirty is what lingers at hour six, just quieter and a touch saltier from skin chemistry.
Scent twins
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