Perfumes with Anise

Anise smells sweet, cool and licorice-like with a gentle spice, the familiar scent of aniseed sweets and spirits that adds a bright aromatic sparkle to a fragrance.

Seeds of Pimpinella anisum are steam-distilled into an essential oil whose main component is anethole. The scent is close to star anise and fennel, yet softer and slightly more floral. Anise is used mostly in the top of a fragrance and often in the heart. It pairs with lavender, licorice, iris, heliotrope, tonka, vanilla and almond.

Anise appears in 1,255 perfumes in the Fisfis catalogue and is used mostly as a top note.

Popular perfumes with Anise

• Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Nuit Blanche (2016)
• Guerlain Apres l'Ondee (1906)
• Amouage Outlands (2024)
• Loewe Solo (2004)
• Lolita Lempicka Fleur Defendue (2008)
• Jil Sander No. 4 (1990)
• Mugler Alien Man (2018)
• Cartier Pasha (1992)
• Rochas Byzance (1987)
• Prada Infusion d'Amande (2015)
• Nishane EGE / ΑΙΓΑΙΟ (2020)
• Orto Parisi Stercus (2014)
• Lolita Lempicka Mon Premier Parfum (2017)
• Oscar De La Renta Pour Lui (1980)
• Guerlain Aqua Allegoria Forte Mandarine Basilic (2022)
• Frederic Malle Music For a While (2018)
• Yves Saint Laurent Jazz (1988)
• Lolita Lempicka Le Premier Parfum (2010)
• Nishane Sultan Vetiver (2013)
• Bvlgari BLV Notte Pour Femme (2004)
• Shiseido Energizing Fragrance (1999)
• Avon Christian Lacroix Absynthe (2009)
• Natura Frescor de Maracujá (2003)
• 24 Gold (2010)

Notes most often paired with Anise

• Musk
• Vanilla
• Bergamot
• Patchouli
• Sandalwood
• Amber
• Jasmine
• Cedar
• Tonka Bean
• Rose
• Lavender
• Vetiver