Puro Fico

i bought it today, the guy in the shop spryed a couple of shots at me as an added bonus. Walked around in my wonderful fig aura. Some girl didn't like this stuff, but i don't care. i'm pretty much impressed with the scent and i feel confident with it. can't wait to try some other product in the same line. 2015 edit: this is the first fragrance i bought in my niche adventure, i have 200 bottles but when it comes to fig fragrances, this is still what i reach for. forget those others suckers. my review refers to the 2012 bottle. now the bottle has changed and comes bigger and cheaper (??) so don't blame me for the outcome. i know nothing about the new bottle. i tried all the stuff from the original line, and i think you must be an experienced nose to appreciate those frags.

Absolutely nice! A plain simple and minimal fragrance, without being 'poor' or spoiled at all!, on the contrary: it has a remarkable and fine personality. It seems really to smell figs! Not only the fruit, but even the tree leaves and something more. Different from other well known fragrances on the same theme (very beautiful for sure!, such as Philosykos, or l'Artisan P.'s Premier Figuier) Here a delicate creamy touch of almond and coconut mark some differences. Thanks to its high concentration it's a perfume with a wonderful persistence on the skin (without being bold or bad mannered!) even with a hot weather, not so many frags do the same when the barometer indicates more than 35°. Nice sillage also.

Very fresh, green, leafy. Basically Philosykos but a bit more mossy. I layer it with Figue Sauvage and Cocco alla Vaniglia because I like it to be more creamy and sweeter. It’s too tangy and masculin for my taste. Layered with Milks Note it is also nice. The coconut in itself is hardly existent. The fig is in the background. I don’t get almond. This is my second bottle. I got an earlier batch that was sweeter, more gourmand. I liked that better. I got complimented with that all the time. This bottle, not so much.

Totally in love with it from the first time. Fresh, sweet, intense, different. Best fig I've ever trid. And people seem to love it too ;-)

I like all good fig scents and so it comes as no surprise that I like Puro Fico as well; after all, as others on this page have mentioned, it really is quite similar to many others in this genre. It's true to its name: a ripe sweet fig accompanied by the warm, aromatic, living wood of the tree, mellow and slightly creamy - it's a familiar concept, and for good reason! Very summery without being fresh, sunshine in a bottle. Still, I'm not rushing to put it on my wish list, which I usually do as soon as I smell a good fig note even though I already have about a hundred of variations on that theme in my (decant) collection. The reason for that, and maybe for the lack of reviews here, is that very same familiarity; it doesn't bring anything unique to the table, and it's not quite as good as, say, Premier Figuier Extrême or L'Arbre De La Connaissance, two fragrances it reminds me of with its warm woody take on the fig tree theme. Don't get me wrong, it's a good scent, and it has a better price/quality ratio than its more famous cousins - if this was the first fig scent I ever smelled, I definitely would have been running to the store right about now. But as a blasé as I am, I'm going to leave it at sampling.