L'Eau Froide
L'Eau Froide opens with a sharp citric blast that feels less like squeezed lemon and more like frozen zest—bright but stripped of sweetness, almost metallic in its clarity.
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.
- Citrus75
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readL'Eau Froide opens with a sharp citric blast that feels less like squeezed lemon and more like frozen zest—bright but stripped of sweetness, almost metallic in its clarity. The musk underneath is pale and restrained, providing just enough body to keep the composition from dissolving entirely into vapor. There's an ascetic quality here, as though Lutens wanted to see how much could be removed before a fragrance ceased to exist.
What develops is less an evolution than a sustained transparency. The lemon never warms or caramelizes; the musk never blooms into softness. It stays cold, clean, faintly antiseptic. This is fragrance as negative space—deliberate, austere, perhaps best suited to those who find most perfumes exhausting. In summer heat it nearly vanishes. In air conditioning it becomes a second skin, barely there but undeniably present.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
