

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
Named by the house, not on the label, in 4


