Fleur de Figuier (1999)
by Molinard

Blind purchase, made after i read in a review it was a fig leaning towards the masculine side.

I love fig frags, i own a few (Jo Malone's Fig and Cassis, Philosykos, Heeley's and Marc Jacobs' cologne), and I found them to be all pretty unisex.

This one, though, is, to me, a classic cheapie female frag (think red door) in disguise. Fig is faint, only in the top notes and disappears pretty soon, leaving a totally feminine synthetic base with strong projection and sillage.

Ultimately, I can only blame myself for believing the review i based my blind purchase on, instead of getting a sample from TPC before pulling the trigger on a 100ml

Thumbs down as it fails to deliver even as a Red Door's class competitor

18th August, 2011.

This is not a feminine scent, in fact it's more masculine than many scents marketed to man nowadays. It begins with astringent and dry mature fig leaves, and the milky sap. It ends in vanilla and sweet woody base. The heart is what's the most interesting to me in this scent probably made to be a simple soliflore.

What I get is a scent that takes me to places. A scent I used to smell a lot when I was a kid. After swimming and splashing around in the river, I used to sunbathe on a small rock by the river pool, surrounded by all sorts of shrubs and herbs. Moist dirt, bitter and sweet smell of shrubbery and the faint smell of the tree leaves. Mulberry in particular. It's weird, and I wonder what makes that.

So, it's an earthy, sticky, slightly astringent slightly sweet scent inspired by figs that comes off to me as a shrubbery bouquet by the riverside. I love it.

6th March, 2011.

I happened upon this fragrance by chance last week when browsing through the English equivalent of a nickel and dime store. Being a lover of fig fragrances, I bought the only bottle in the shop. There was no tester but I took a chance because of the Molinard reputation for fine fragrances. I also took a chance because the bottle was ridiculously cheap at £7.99 for 100 mls.

Well, when I got home and tore off the security tag (which they'd left on by mistake) and the cellophane wrapper, and sprayed the jus on my wrist, I was transported to heaven. This is a divine fig fragrance. It's pure green fig, nothing more, nothing less. In my view, it even surpasses - just - the wonderful Dyptique Phylosikos and charming Jo Malone Fig & Cassis..

All you fig scent lovers out there - make this your holy grail - to find and try Molinard's Fleur de Figuier. It's a masterpiece.

17th October, 2010.

A bit more floral opening than I was expecting, but the middle note is a wonderfully realistic fig scent. Slightly sweet, slightly green. Very wearable; A most affordable high-quality fig scent.

8th February, 2010.

From the vial ... love at first sniff: Enthralled, charmed, smitten--soft greenery, fig-sweetened. Something goes a little wrong once the juice hits my skin though. Our combined chemistry generates an almond note and the green disappears. Awww. So close to ecstacy. I'm going to smell this vial over and over and over and over.

25th December, 2008.

Ooooh, Talieseki, thanks so much for that information. I adore this fig (I am a fig fiend - have about a half a dozen of them) It is at once pungent - green and lightly, sweetly rounded - and bracing, and the essence (for me) of fig. For someone for whom Phylosikos doesn't work and whose fave until now has been Premiere Figuiere that is really saying something.

Could smell great on the right guy, but you fig-loving ladies should give it a try too!!

19th December, 2008.