M Micallef
M Micallef — the brand's eponymous fragrance — opens on cardamom and bergamot, the cardamom dry rather than green, the bergamot adding lift without sweetness.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Patchouli60
- Rose50
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readM Micallef — the brand's eponymous fragrance — opens on cardamom and bergamot, the cardamom dry rather than green, the bergamot adding lift without sweetness. The heart turns floral fast: jasmine, ylang-ylang, and rose woven tight enough that no single bloom dominates, with a slightly creamy ylang edge that gives the whole thing a tropical lean.
The drydown is plain in a flattering way — patchouli and musk, nothing more, smoothed into skin. As a house namesake it's surprisingly restrained: no oud, no vanilla excess, no Swarovski-bottle theatrics. The floral is the statement and the spice gives it shape.
Scent twins
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