Ingredients · Green · Made in a lab

Fig

Fig fruit yields no extract; the milky-green note uses fig-leaf absolute plus synthetics.

What it is

A fruit whose smell can’t be extracted, so perfumers rebuild it from other materials.

How perfumers build it

StemoneFig leaf absoluteCoumarin (tonka)Gamma-octalactone

Known in

Philosykos (Diptyque, 1996)

Named by the house in 6 of the 352 perfumes read so far

Dia WomanAmouage · “Fig”Thé Matcha 26Le Labo · “fig”Thé Noir 29Le Labo · “fig”Incense 01Swiss Arabian · “Fig”Wūlóng CháNishane · “fig”NefsNishane · “fig”