Michelangelo
Michelangelo opens with lemon, bergamot, and clary sage — a citrus-herbal accord that feels bright but textured, the sage adding a grey-green note beneath the citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Smoky70
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Olibanum
- Rose
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readMichelangelo opens with lemon, bergamot, and clary sage — a citrus-herbal accord that feels bright but textured, the sage adding a grey-green note beneath the citrus. Olibanum and rose in the heart mark a shift toward the spiritual and contemplative: the incense is dry and resinous, the rose restrained.
The base deepens into incense, ambergris, tobacco, and Virginia cedar — a warm, smoky-resinous foundation with real complexity. Tobacco and ambergris together produce a rich, slightly animalic warmth that anchors the composition. The trajectory from fresh-herbal citrus to frankincense-tobacco is well-considered. This is a serious, nuanced fragrance suited to introspective moods and formal occasions.
Scent twins
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