Figolide™
Note Profile
About
Figolide is a synthetic lactone used to build fig accords. It smells milky and gently green, like the white sap that bleeds from a broken fig stem. It is less sweet than coconut lactones and less fruity than peach lactones, and it reads as living plant rather than baked goods.
Scent Profile
Lactonic leads and is the reason the material exists: the source calls it milky, lactonic and creamy, and credits it with the sap-like quality of fig. Green is the second facet and it is capped there on purpose. The same source hands the green, minty half of a fig accord to a different material and gives Figolide only the 'gently green' vegetal edge that makes the creaminess read as living plant. Below the line sit creamy_woody for the slight woody undertone the source puts in the drydown, fruity and tropical, both held down by the explicit comparison that this is less fruity than peach lactones and less sweet than coconut ones, and sweet_vanillic for the same reason.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
A trade-named lactone, sold as Figolide. A lactone is a cyclic ester, formed when an alcohol group and a carboxylic acid group join inside one molecule. No maker datasheet was read, so the CAS number and the exact chemical class are not confirmed here.
Usage in Perfumery
A fig accord needs two halves: a green, minty freshness and a milky, sap-like creaminess. Figolide supplies the second half, which is the part that makes fig smell like fig rather than like generic greenness. It is also used in creamy-green, tropical and Mediterranean compositions. Four Parfumo placements across four brands are recorded, including Bois 1920's Dolce di Giorno and Verde di Mare.
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