Possible Clues:

• Chinese spice named for its shape
• Five-spice powder ingredient
• Spice named for its celestial shape
• Key ingredient in five-spice powder
• Evergreen twinkling of Sinatra's eyes (it's fine to be swept away)
• Chinese spice with a flavor like licorice
• Spice Girl in sin bin regularly starts to seek escape
• Retsina, as exotic cooking ingredient
• Look hard round an island to find seed pods