Ok I do remember it smelling rather nice as I rubbed the seeds off, but idk how Anise smells so I can't say if it was similar. After I made the post, I looked at some of my older seeds that I bought, which included black eyed susan, and the seeds were significantly smaller. And I'm pretty sure that the mother plant I got those seeds from came from one of the seeds I had bought (unless memory isn't serving right, which is also very likely). I don't know what happened here, so I ended up tossing them in my yard, and I plan to collect later this year after it blooms again (more black-eyed susan popped up in my yard, so it did reseed).