Costa Azzurra Tom Ford 2014 Eau de Parfum
Costa Azzurra opens with a sharp, mineral brightness—crushed cypress needles and sea spray meeting dry coastal scrub.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Cedar55
- Oakmoss40
- Vetiver35
- Incense32
- Ozonic30
By the editors · 2 min readCosta Azzurra opens with a sharp, mineral brightness—crushed cypress needles and sea spray meeting dry coastal scrub. There's an almost medicinal quality to the greenness, like walking through Mediterranean maquis under midday sun, where aromatic herbs release their oils into warm air. The oak and incense underneath keep it from feeling too literal or aquatic in the conventional sense.
As it settles, the composition becomes woodier and more grounded. The driftwood-like qualities emerge, salted and weathered, while a subtle sweetness—perhaps from vanilla or labdanum—rounds the edges without softening the overall structure. The effect is less "beach vacation" than solitary afternoon on rocky coastline, somewhere between Sardinia and the French Riviera.
This works best on someone who wants a woody fragrance with coastal character but prefers abstraction to obvious marine notes. It's casual without being careless, refined without feeling formal.
