Fahrenheit Cologne
Dior's 2015 reinterpretation strips Fahrenheit down to sunlit essentials.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Lemon70
- Patchouli55
- Green25
- Black Pepper20
- Vetiver15
By the editors · 2 min readDior's 2015 reinterpretation strips Fahrenheit down to sunlit essentials. The opening is immediately citric—lemon that reads more zesty than sweet—but it doesn't linger alone. Within minutes, patchouli surfaces, earthy and slightly green, tempering the brightness without turning dark.
Nutmeg arrives as a warm, woody-spiced hum in the base, less culinary than aromatic. The overall effect is surprisingly linear: a clean, outdoorsy composition that favors transparency over the original's violet-gasoline strangeness.
Where the 1988 Fahrenheit felt like leather and engine heat, this cologne version feels like linen shirts and dry grass. It's mannered, wearable, and made for warm weather—closer to a sophisticated fresh fragrance than the iconoclastic warmth of its predecessor.