Fleur de Figuier Chabaud

A blast of green fig. Fresh and light. The nuance of green citrus reminding me of unripe tangerines or mandarins. A pretty flower note not really like a flower, but along the lines of a powdery, faded, dried rose. A very, very well balanced blend. A slight warmth to the fig like a Mediterranean evening in the waning sunset when the light still has that particular orange glow and the ground is still warm. Something ever so slightly resinous in the background holding it up but not poking through, like the rising sap of the tree and the woody bark too. A sweeter woodsy hint of fruit emerges as if the figs just ripened in front of you whilst you stood in the sun. Extremely pretty, extremely wearable, and thankfully well out of this perfumers cute sweetie department.

This is like a photorealist enterpretation of a fig. Sophie is another Demeter candidate with this. Her playful attitude to perfumery merely displays her incredible skill, which cannot be denied whether you like her perfumes or not. This is my favourite so far. There is no denying her perfumers blending skills. I see this perfumer going the whole way. My only reservation overall is that her volume is on a permanent no.3 and I would very much like to smell this as a ramped up perfume strength of about no.6. Wanting more is a good thing.