Michael for Men
The opening is a spice cabinet tipped over: cinnamon and star anise announce themselves loudly, tempered by cardamom's green warmth and a flash of bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Sandalwood75
- Incense65
- Cardamom65
- Tobacco60
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a spice cabinet tipped over: cinnamon and star anise announce themselves loudly, tempered by cardamom's green warmth and a flash of bergamot. It's bold without veering into potpourri, the tarragon adding an unexpected herbal edge that keeps the sweetness in check.
As it settles, incense smoke curls through suede and tobacco, creating a dry, faintly leathery heart that grounds all that initial spice. The sandalwood base arrives with plum and patchouli in tow—not the sharp, dirty patchouli of the seventies, but something rounder and almost fruity. The plum reads as soft orchard ripeness rather than candy.
This is unapologetically masculine in the early-2000s mold: spiced, woody, confident. It wears like tailored suede rather than polished leather, warm but never cloying, best suited to someone comfortable taking up space in a room.
