Figues & Agrumes

In the very green opening, I get the smell of crushed leaves and citruses (lemons and/or limes). The citruses include the whole fruit with rind because while the note is tart as you would expect, there is also a slightly bitter touch from what I imagine to be the rind and the sap from the crushed leaves. I have never tried figs so I am not sure what it smells or tastes like and I can't really pick up any fruity notes other than the citruses. The strong green note mellows over time letting the jasmine finally peek through. The scent settles into my skin as a fresh, moderately green, citrusy, floral and to my nose, there is nothing sweet about this scent. Longevity is great 8-10 hrs and sillage is moderate. It's very different from the type of fragrances I normally gravitate towards and I really like the dry down. This is also, IMO, the most unisex fragrance I have tried from this line so far. Edit - I've now worn this fragrance for a while and feel like I have gotten to know it better. I get a powdery, woody notes with a clean freshness in the dry down along with a tiny bit of jasmine from the mid but the citrusy green-ness from the opening is what lasts throughout, mellowing over time and that's this fragrance in a nutshell! I really do like it and think its one of the more interesting ones from the line.

So yea, currently in my fig era, so I have been blind buying a lot of older fig scents. This one. This is an absolute beauty. I get a green fig leaf and a ripe fig smell without being “sweet” if that makes sense. Done perfumes are cloying/nauseatingly sweet, this is not that perfume. This perfume is fresh, just picked off the tree, with green stem still attached. I don’t get the citrus, I get the fresh. I don’t get the sorbet, I get the cold crisp scent. The jasmine is in the background. It rounds out the fig tree experience without becoming floral, and while there are no blonde woods listed, on the dry down I get a more warm woody bark fragrance from the fig tree. This perfume pyramid may be simple, but the perfume is far from linear or simple. I got this on the gray market and only paid around 145 for it. Before it’s completely gone, I’ll be buying another bottle, just in case! Absolute beautiful summer scent! ❤️

This underrated beauty 😍 I’m pleasantly Surprised -taken aback if you will- by it’s Beauty. I gave up on blind buying this line After Jazmin Marzapan failed me (it’s lovely but I had high hopes. It’s The Quintessential perfume for me *and so it seemed* from The notes). Well technically I do not like fig smell nor do I want to smell like a fig; I want to smell like a Jasmin marzipan ball 😄. Well lo & behold Initial blast: dry fig. after 2-3 seconds damp and Musky. Then The FLOWERS come out, ooh! 🤤 The drydown is this beautiful skinscent-a bit orange blossom-y and a touch of screechy stabilized by a creaminess and of course The musky-ness is still a tad bit showing. Can be a wedding day scent (as a guest - not exuberant enough for a bride - it’s polite and nearing inconspicuous - secretly gorgeous). It’s office appropriate - better for days and summers ☀️. In evenings or winters I’d imagine it to just disappear.

Purchased a couple of 30ml bottles of this early winter this year and now in summer it’s really come alive. It was pleasant in winter. I got more of the bitter greens and citrus rind soaked in sorbet effect then which was really still lovely to my nose but now the citruses and sorbet have opened up in a glorious way like light through amber. They glow. Not overly sweet. Just like when you slurp up the melted residue of lemon/lime sorbet in a cup on a hot summers day. Mildly bitter to counteract the sweet/sour effect. It’s refreshing. The floralcy is supporting and gives a depth and plushness almost a fluffy airiness. Really beautiful. I still want to get a 100ml bottle as it’s stunning. The small bottles don’t do it justice. It’s a love for me.

Figues et Agrumes is the essence of rural Mediterranean when the sun starts burning hotter and the days getting longer. This is not cultivated gardens, this is jasmine and honeysuckle climbing fences, fig trees growing wild, herbs hanged to dry by big rusted nails; the odd lemon tree in almost every yard, basil in ceramic pots... Figues et Agrumes takes us there, dazed by the heat, inhaling the scent of magical summers, keeping our eyes half closed while our face is washed first by the sun, later to be kissed by moon light...