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

• Clive Christian Strange Heavens Out Of The Blue (2026)
• Rance 1795 Francois Charles (2007)
• Zaharoff Signature Noir (2020)
• Novaa Zara The New Dawn Tete-a-Tete Eau de Cologne Новая Заря (The New Dawn)
• L Artisan Parfumeur Iris Pallida 2007 L'Artisan Parfumeur (2007)
• Xerjoff Shingl (2009)
• Laurence Dumont Vanille Bourbon
• Novaa Zara The New Dawn Красный Мак (Red Poppy Flower) Новая Заря (The New Dawn) (1927)
• Bruno Banani Pure Man (2006)
• Emanuel Ungaro Apparition Homme (2005)
• Ahmed Al Maghribi Aqua Oud
• Alfred Sung Paradise Homme (2003)
• Kensie So Pretty (2020)
• FZOTIC Corpse Reviver (2019)
• Alghabra Parfums Labyrinth of Spices (2019)
• Profumo Di Firenze Latte e Mandorla (2024)
• We Pink Heaven Bride (2025)
• Lolita Lempicka Au Masculin Fraicheur (2004)
• O Boticário Egeo On Me O Boticário (2019)
• Pineward Perfumes Chandlery (2021)
• Benetton Giallo Woman (2010)
• Rance 1795 Le Roi Empereur (2011)
• Alexandre J Oscent Black Alexandre.J (2012)
• Givenchy Very Irresistible Collector Edition (2013)

Notes most often paired with Anise

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