The Color Digest · Compare
Settled, side by side
Cedar Grove
Benjamin Moore · 444
Sage that reads at a distance
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
Olive with the volume turned all the way down
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersCedar Grove is the lighter of the two at LRV 46.34, 34.8 points above Aegean Olive at LRV 11.54. Cedar Grove leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Both belong to the greens family. For a whole room, Cedar Grove is the safer, more forgiving choice thanks to its higher LRV, while Aegean Olive is the bolder pick.
How they read
In their own wordsCedar Grove is a mid-light sage — green enough to be clearly a color from across the room, grey enough never to look minty. At LRV 46 it sits in the sweet spot for a full-room green: it holds its tone in daylight and softens rather than muddies as the light fades.
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.