Aegean Olive

Benjamin Moore · 1491

Olive with the volume turned all the way down

LRV11.54

Hex#5D594C

RGB93 · 89 · 76

WarmthWarm

UndertoneGrey-brown olive; more khaki and bronze than leaf green

FamilyGreens

CollectionClassics Color Collection

In real rooms

Photographed under consistent light · credited & tagged

Room by Samantha Fischer Studio painted in Aegean Olive — Aegean OliveBM 1491
Design bySamantha Fischer Studio
PhotoNathan Schroder

How it reads

Aegean Olive is a deep, greyed olive that sits closer to bronze and khaki than to anything leafy. With an LRV just under 12 it behaves like a dark neutral: it wraps a room, dissolves corners and makes cane, rattan and aged brass look expensive. It is the green you choose when you do not want the room to read as green.

Light is what unlocks it. In daylight the olive comes forward and it feels earthy and calm; at night under lamps it turns nearly charcoal-brown and very intimate. Full-room envelopes — walls, trim and ceiling in the same color — suit it best.

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Questions

Does Aegean Olive look green?

Only quietly. It is a grey-brown olive, so in most light it reads as a dark warm neutral with a green cast rather than a clear green.

Where does Aegean Olive work best?

Rooms you want to feel enclosed — a dining room, library, den or bedroom — especially painted on every surface including the ceiling.

Painted a room in Aegean Olive?

Add it to the reference library — credited to you, photographed in honest light.

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