Fig Blossom
Note Profile
About
Green, milky imagined blossom
Scent Profile
Fig Blossom smells green first, a softer, milkier green than fig leaf, without its sharp herbaceous snap. A creamy, lactonic quality runs through it. A light floral framing sits underneath, gentle rather than pronounced. There is a warm, faintly tropical sweetness that recalls coconut but is not coconut, and a thin fruity edge borrowed from the ripe fig itself.
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Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
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Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can build Fig Blossom from materials such as:
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Stemone 5-methylheptan-3-one oxime galbanum · weedy · leafy
Smell words come from published sources.
Allergens perfumes with this note can list: Coumarin
A given perfume with this note may use some of these, or something else, and may or may not contain the allergens above.
Origin
There is no fig blossom. Ficus carica carries its flowers inside the fruit, in an inverted cluster called a syconium, so no external flower exists to pick or extract. Premiere Peau states this plainly and states that no extraction exists for the term. What perfumers sell under the name is a built accord. The one account found describes the build as fig-leaf materials - stemone and other leaf-green compounds, cis-3-hexenol - given a lighter floral framing and a lactone load for creaminess. The term is used as a point between the two real fig notes, greener and milkier than the ripe fruit, rounder and softer than the leaf.
Usage in Perfumery
Used in fig-themed and Mediterranean compositions as a lighter alternative to ripe fig. Attested 3 times on Fragrantica and 6 times on Parfumo across 6 brands, so the name is in real use even though the material is not. Premiere Peau lists two of its own extraits, Nuit Elastique and Rose Monotone, as using it.
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