Ingredients · Green · heart note
Fig leaf absolute
Milky green fig leaf and sap; coconut-woody, lactonic and leafy.
- What it is
- Natural absolute from solvent-extracted fig leaves.
- Where it comes from
- formerly Mediterranean producers
- When you smell it
- Heart: as it settles.
- What perfumers do with it
- Once gave natural fig-leaf greenness; perfumers now rebuild it with Stemone, lactones and galbanum.
- Worth knowing
- Fig sap can blister sunlit skin, the same phototoxicity that got the absolute prohibited.
- Rules
- Not allowed. IFRA-prohibited; fig leaves contain strongly phototoxic psoralens
- Also called
- Ficus carica leaf absolute
Named by the house, not on the label, in 19
Dia WomanAmouage · “Fig”
Le Beau Paradise GardenJean Paul Gaultier · “Green fig”
Thé Matcha 26Le Labo · “fig”
Thé Noir 29Le Labo · “fig”
Incense 01Swiss Arabian · “Fig”
Dylan Blue Pour HommeVersace · “fig leaves”
ZephirineLiberty London (LBTY.) · “Fig Nature Print®”
Gris CharnelBDK Parfums · “Fig”
Délices des BoisVeronique Gabai · “Fig”
KDolce & Gabbana · “fig”
Figue ÉrotiqueTom Ford · “Kadota Fig Accord”
R.E.M.Ariana Grande · “Fig”
DiorivieraDior · “Fig”
Eleventh HourByredo · “wild fig”Scarlet Poppy Cologne IntenseJo Malone London · “succulent fig accord”
Parisian MuscMatière Première · “fig leaf note”
Wūlóng CháNishane · “fig”
NefsNishane · “fig”
PhilosykosDiptyque · “Fig leaves”