Costa Azzurra Acqua
A lighter, more translucent spin on Tom Ford's Costa Azzurra, this flanker strips away the original's resinous weight and doubles down on lemon—not the fleeting zest of cologne, but a sustained, almost candied brightness that feels pressed into a warm base.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Citrus70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Lemon
By the editors · 2 min readA lighter, more translucent spin on Tom Ford's Costa Azzurra, this flanker strips away the original's resinous weight and doubles down on lemon—not the fleeting zest of cologne, but a sustained, almost candied brightness that feels pressed into a warm base. The cardamom adds a gentle heat, enough to keep the citrus from turning sharp or soapy, while vetiver provides a dry, grassy undertow that grounds the composition without weighing it down.
As it settles, labdanum and amber emerge with a honeyed, softly balsamic sweetness, tempered by vanilla that stays restrained rather than gourmand. The result is something between a summer fragrance and a comfort scent—easy to wear, vaguely Mediterranean, but less aquatic than the name suggests.
It suits those who want approachability without blandness, citrus without the usual fadeout. Not a statement fragrance, but a reliable, sun-warmed presence.
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.
