Original Cologne (Pure White Cologne)
Pure White Cologne opens with lemon and grapefruit — a clean, sharp citrus that establishes its genre without fuss.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Musky70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Pear
- Neroli
- Galbanum
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPure White Cologne opens with lemon and grapefruit — a clean, sharp citrus that establishes its genre without fuss. There's a brightness typical of Creed's lighter compositions: luminous, well-executed, effortless.
The heart softens the citrus with pear and neroli, adding a faintly sweet fruitiness and the characteristic orange-blossom-adjacent warmth of neroli. Galbanum introduces a slightly green, almost waxy edge that keeps the heart from going purely sweet — it's the note that prevents Pure White Cologne from being merely pleasant.
White musk and ambergris form the base: clean, skin-close, and surprisingly warm for such a lightweight composition. The ambergris provides the subtle diffusion that makes Creed fragrances feel as if they're emanating from the skin rather than sitting on top of it. A precise, refined entry-point to the Creed portfolio.
Scent twins
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