Alluring Fig

I bought a sample from the company and then a bottle. It's a fascinating scent. It's like real figs. How did he do that? People who don't know figs do not recognize this scent. It is the scent of the fresh fig, directly from the tree. I once ate a fig that I picked minutes before. In Spain. It smells like that. A ripe/overripe fig picked in summer in Spain. It's puzzling. I remember the day I picked that fig. There is no other scent like that. A real fig. It was a beautiful day and I rarely ate something more delicious or ... heavenly. I felt so successful and cunning. I found free fruits in superior quality. In my holiday. The tree grew beside a depressing and ugly road in the middle of nowhere, the asphalt was on fire, the figs split open in my hand because they were so ripe. I had never smelled something like that. I grew up in Germany. I didn't even know the taste of fresh figs. I only knew them in their dried form. The figs were so ripe that their skin became so thin that it was almost see-through, less than paperthin. I didn't even know that fully ripe figs developed this thin of a skin. Obviously imported figs are being harvested a bit unripe but this fact never made it all the way to the ground of my brain, so to speak. No one could commercially export fully ripe figs for more than 10 minutes. It was a hassle to put them in between my clothes in my suitcase. I had to eat them within the next 2 days. They were hardly jostled in between my clothes. Do you know the smell of these figs in real life? Then you know the smell of this fragrance. I know of no people who don't like the smell of figs. But if you don't like to smell like them do not buy this perfume. What's more is that the smell stays the same throughout the day, and the hours. I can smell no opening or drydown. It's always just figs. Very sweet figs.

The opening is very milky fig and coconut. Very creamy, smooth, and somewhat gourmand. It also has a very noticeable and bright green note rolling though. Slightly sharp or tart. Kind of like the inside of a snapped thin tree branch or a leaf crushed with your fingers. I am kind of blown away by how silky and smooth this opening is. So delightful. I want to bathe in it. The middle stays true to the opening. If anything the light green leafy smell is missing and I was expecting that to show up more as it dried down. The coconut slowly transforms into vanilla. So far this scent is both bright/energetic and warm/mysterious at the same time somehow. The dry down is still very similar to the middle. Fig and cool vanilla, with a hint of coconut. Slightly powdery in scent texture. But not like baby powder, more like powdered dairy creamer. The expensive kind. There is definitely a gourmand aspect. Not overly sweet but in a way that feels like you're drinking cold, thick cream. The green note has completely disappeared by this point. Projection stays strong until it becomes mostly a skin scent at about the 5-6 hour mark. But even then, the scent is still potent on the skin. The figgy/vanilla/coconut smell is detectable on my skin for 12+ hours. What an absolutely incredible fragrance. I'm so impressed. This is exactly what I want to smell on warm days at the beach or sitting under the shade of a tree in a grassy park on a sunny afternoon. So lovely and inviting. If I had any critiques it would be that I wish that green note would have lasted a little longer, but that's nitpicking. It leans feminine, but men can totally rock this. I know I will be.

The scent reminds me of my childhood. Every summer when I go back to my hometown to see my grandparents, there is a very old old fig tree. The scent is like a fig smoothie pureed with fig leaves and coconut milk. The opening is a slightly sour, bitter taste on the tip of the tongue, like the acrid smell blowing in the wind. It's like I'm sitting under a real fig tree. The first 10 minutes is the smell of ripe figs falling all over the garden, falling all over the yard. When the smell of ripe figs has just stopped, the wind blows again a whole fig tree full of green, sweet, and full of ants. Extremely refreshing and relaxing, just feel the symphony of the fig tree with ripe or unripe fruits. Mixed with that is the sweet and fragrant floral scent, although the ingredient list does not list any floral scents, but I feel it very clearly. maybe that greasy sweet smell comes from vanilla. Light sour, acrid, succulent, sweet, green, steamy, creamy, makes me extremely excited to relax A scent that is not really flattering, but very impressive, easy to remember, the smell of figs is very very real, extremely fresh, the smell of figs when drydown is very luxurious and relaxing. Sillage well, although it's creamy, but it's very good to use it in the summer.

I'm not a big fig fan, but I got a free sample of this with some decants of other TK fragrances (Coffee Addict and Tobacco Maniac, which are both INCREDIBLE). Given how good the coffee and tobacco fragrances are, I'm not surprised at the quality here--TK seems to specialize in hyper-realistic accords and Alluring Fig is no exception. There is vanilla underneath, but this is primarily a very green, very fresh fig scent, especially in the opening. In those first seconds, you could probably hold this up to someone who is blindfolded and they would think there was an actual fruit in front of them. Not just the fruit, but also the leaves, the branches, this is the whole fig tree. The vanilla starts to balance it out later on, but it doesn't turn it super sweet; it's more about adding depth. I'm still not a big fan of fig (as a scent; love to eat them), so this still isn't one for me, but anyone who likes fig as a note should absolutely try Alluring Fig. Try the whole house, actually; they're doing something different in the fragrance world and putting out really high quality, realistic scents. Addendum (3 hours later): Okay, this dries down into the most beautiful fig-tinged vanilla I've ever smelled and I'm absolutely getting a full bottle.

Alluring Fig by THEODOROS KALOTINIS is much more than your standard issue fare of single fig notes in BDK Gris Charnel, or Lattafas Liam Gray. Sure those are lovely fragrances that offer the wearer glimpses of sweet ripe fig, but Alluring Fig goes way beyond that. I never had the pleasure of living around an orchard of fig trees, but I can easily tell you what each part of the fig tree smells like from green leaf, bark, branch, sap to fruit because of the amazing progression of fragrance notes throughout the wearing of this magnificent fig parade. I’ll not bore those of you who are already familiar with this fragrance’s nuances step by step, but I will say that Alluring Fig fragrance had me beyond curious & amazed through each transitionary change as they occurred. The process was so well executed you would have thought it was a symphony being lead through each movement of an orchestral piece of music on exact cue. Alluring Fig; is an utterly brilliant, blooming olfactory composition. Incredibly vibrant, rich & pure. It begins boldly green yet elegant, and ends dreamily and softly balanced between textured fruit & vanilla cream intertwined. Alluring Fig is the purest definition of fig in it’s entirety, ever recorded in fragrance notes.