Cool Water Man Summer Edition 2019
Lemon and grapefruit snap open with a chilled, salty zest that feels like crushed ice against skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Mint
- Sage
- Basil
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and grapefruit snap open with a chilled, salty zest that feels like crushed ice against skin. Mint surges forward in the heart, its camph edge sharpened by basil’s green bite while sage adds a dry, slightly bitter lift that keeps the citrus from turning sugary. The trio hovers above a pale sandalwood base that never gets creamy; instead it provides a clean blond wood plank for the herbs to rest on, extending the cool sensation. Over an hour the citrus fizz recedes and the mint–sage accord dominates, projecting a soft but persistent cool aura within arm’s length. Designed for hot humid days and casual outdoor wear, it stays noticeable for about five hours before settling into a skin-close woody residue.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.