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.
Sirene
Portola Paints · Roman Clay
Aegean Olive
Benjamin Moore · 1491
LRV
11.54
#6E8A9A
Hex
#5D594C
110 · 138 · 154
RGB
93 · 89 · 76
Cool
Warmth
Warm
Sirene is cool; Aegean Olive is warm.
Calm marine blue; cloudy and layered in Roman Clay
Undertone
Grey-brown olive; more khaki and bronze than leaf green
Blue
Family
Green
Roman Clay
Collection
Classics Color Collection
In real rooms
Every room, each colorSirene
The difference
Read from the numbersSirene leans cool where Aegean Olive reads warm. Sirene is a blue, Aegean Olive a green.
How they read
In their own wordsSirene is a Portola Roman Clay in what the brand calls 'a calm marine blue'. Because Roman Clay is troweled on rather than brushed, the colour is never flat — it moves between pale sea-blue and deeper slate across a single wall.
Aegean Olive is a deep, grayed 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.