Cool Water Wave for Men
Sea notes, grapefruit, and Sichuan pepper open it together — salty, tart, and quietly tingly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Salty70
- Marine65
- Fresh50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Sea Notes
- Grapefruit
- Sichuan Pepper
- Juniper
- Orange Blossom
- Birch Leaf
By the editors · 2 min readSea notes, grapefruit, and Sichuan pepper open it together — salty, tart, and quietly tingly. The Sichuan pepper is the most interesting choice, adding a numbing brightness that keeps the citrus from going generic.
Juniper and birch leaf carry the heart. Both notes lean dry and green-aromatic; juniper contributes a gin-adjacent crispness, and birch leaf adds a thin, slightly papery resin. The composition stays cool and angular rather than warming into a typical fresh-aquatic mid.
Sandalwood and patchouli close it — modest, woody-earthy, less amber-warm than most Cool Water flankers. Hot-weather and warm-weather wear, daytime, casual or sport. A drier, more aromatic take on the franchise's marine template.
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.
