Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Eau Fraîche
A single lemon note opens this fragrance with uncomplicated brightness — clean and immediate, though thin without supporting top notes to build on it.
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.
- Patchouli70
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA single lemon note opens this fragrance with uncomplicated brightness — clean and immediate, though thin without supporting top notes to build on it. It moves into the base quickly.
Cedar brings a dry, lightly pencil-shavings woodiness, while patchouli adds an earthy underpinning. At this concentration the patchouli reads more as structure than personality — less dark and resinous, more of a quiet anchor for the overall composition. Musk rounds it toward skin without much drama.
The total picture is a minimal citrus-woody fragrance with an earthy lean. The sparse note pyramid limits its complexity, but it reads as an intentionally restrained, warm-weather option for casual or active settings.
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.
