Settled, side by side
Comparisons
- White Dove vs Swiss CoffeeWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Swiss Coffee (LRV 81.91): which is warmer, which is brighter, and which designers reach for, with both shown in real rooms.
- White Dove vs Chantilly LaceWhite Dove (LRV 83.16) vs Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04): Benjamin Moore's soft warm white against its cleanest white, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
- Pure White vs Extra WhiteSherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84) vs Extra White (LRV 86): which is warmer, which reads icy in north light, and which designers prefer for walls and trim.
- Chantilly Lace vs Pure WhiteBenjamin Moore Chantilly Lace (LRV 90.04) vs Sherwin-Williams Pure White (LRV 84): crisp vs softly warm, compared by designers and shown in real rooms.
Deep Secret
Benjamin Moore · CSP-625
Le Cygne
Ressource · R238
11.64
LRV
#525A60
Hex
#F4F0E7
82 · 90 · 96
RGB
244 · 240 · 231
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Deep Secret is cool; Le Cygne is warm.
Charcoal grey leaning blue; a slate rather than a soot
Undertone
Soft ivory; a plaster white with a little cream and no yellow
Gray
Family
White
Color Stories
Collection
Ressource Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorThe difference
Read from the numbersDeep Secret leans cool where Le Cygne reads warm. Deep Secret is a gray, Le Cygne a white.
How they read
In their own wordsDeep Secret is a dark charcoal grey with a clear blue undertone — Benjamin Moore files it in the blue family and calls it 'your new favorite gray'. It comes from the Color Stories collection, whose full-spectrum formulas shift more with the light than standard paints.
Le Cygne — the swan — is a warm, matte ivory from the French house Ressource. It has the chalky, light-absorbing quality of old lime plaster, which is why it looks so at home on Haussmann paneling and ceiling roses: it softens the light rather than bouncing it around. Cream is present, yellow is not.