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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: the first hours.
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