Bois Naufrage 16.1

The only thing I'm positive about with this scent is that I love it. I cannot stop sniffing my wrist. It's warm and comforting and sunny, like laying on a hidden, driftwood covered beach while wearing a scent with ambergris. Intoxicating and comforting at the same time. However, I cannot decide if this smells more masculine or feminine. I go back and forth a bit, but the more I wear it the more I feel it just begins to suit the wearer, no matter the gender. I add a feminine touch to this scent, but I would eat it up on a man. Longevity and sillage are moderate.

So, this achieves something I've not encountered in a fig fragrance before - - it manages to be warm, sultry, powdery, sexy, musky and cozy whilst also being a fig scent, all at once! Usually they are bright and crisp, but not so here. There's a gently sweet spiciness to this that makes it fitting for year-round use. If you're usually wary of marine fragrances, there is no calone note here - - perhaps there is a hint of the driftwood you might encounter in something like Jo Malone's Wood Sage and Sea Salt. Really nice and so well blended.

I just ordered a full bottle of this after falling in love with my sample; it'll be my second PG, and while as with Indochine I wish this had more sillage, it's too gorgeous for me to pass up. It's plenty feminine on me but I can feel woody notes lurking that would probably make it gorgeous on a man. On me the rich cocoa-fig notes come to the front, with wood and salt lurking in the backround; it's both rich and light, and will be lovely for warmer weather.

This is the truest 'sand/sun/beach' in a bottle. And when I say the truest, I don't mean 'coppertone', I don't mean coconuts and tiare, I don't mean orange blossoms and sea water. Not a dollop of fantasy-sweetness here. Afternoon sun, there are fig trees in the wind, hot sand rubbing against your skin. Meditarranean air in a bottle, with soft sillage. Delicious.

Wonderful woody salty interpretation of fig. PS! Fragrantica! There should be carob tree among the notes, not fig tree. Carob tree is called Egyptian Fig, but it's not a fig, it's totally another plant and you even have it already in your notes' register ;-).