Hi guys, I'm coming to a fragrance today that you might think would be the ultimate fragrance for me, right? We are talking about Fig-Tea by Parfums de Nicolai. You know what I mean? Fig-Tea! So:
Coward!
Tea!
Fig!!
Tea!!
Perfumes are stupid!
COWARD!
TEE!!
Oh, you understand :D
Coward and tea, two scents I normally like extremely. With fig it is always such a thing, since most fig smells unfortunately come across somewhat stuffy. But then there are (a few) fig scents that don't contain this stuffy note and where I really, really like this fig note, like in Fico di Amalfi by Acqua di Parma or Philosykos by Diptyque.
Be that as it may, fig AND tea would normally be a reason for me to freak out and annoy you all with the fact that you should either eat all figs or finally stop pouring milk into the tea, which doesn't belong to GAR, even though the East Frisians probably don't like to hear this :DD
But unfortunately I have to say in advance that the fragrance has not become one of these ultimate fragrances because of beautiful fragrances... why, you'll find out right away!
The fragrance:
I start by smelling a fine little fig with citric orange notes. The fig seems a little bit stuffier at first, although not as bad as I normally feel stuffy scents, but you notice it a little bit. Fortunately, this doesn't last so long, so that the scent of figs is a little later better to enjoy and also smells more beautiful. Next to the oranges I smell a little sweet, but if they come from the Osmanthus, I can't tell. In the background I smell a scent that I don't really like at all, namely coriander, but even here it's not really bad, as the coriander first of all comes across quite weakly and secondly it can only be smelled at close range, I think it will be less noticeable in the rising scent cloud.
A little later the fig smells a bit more mature than at the beginning, where it smelled a bit greener. Now it smells quite authentic like the purple, ripe figs. Not a very intense fragrance, you have to smell it exactly, but it's nice and slightly sweet. Tea... hmm... you might smell some mate, but the tea here is not very intense. All fragrances don't seem to be really intense in themselves, but together they make a beautiful whole, but you still have a feeling as if the fragrance isn't really getting going. The background of the fragrance is generally woody, which goes well with the green-sweet and slightly spicy Duftaura.
In the end, one hardly smells anything of the fig, the citric notes or the tea, so that one then has only a weakly radiating, woody spicy scent as a basis.
The Sillage and the shelf life:
So the Sillage is really weak. It is quite difficult to perceive the scent on yourself, if you don't just flatten your nose on the sprayed area, there others will probably hardly be able to smell the scent on you at all. Therefore the shelf life is also quite low (or seems to be very low), so that after only two to three hours hardly anything can be smelled.
The bottle:
The bottle is rectangular (but apparently there are also more rounded versions of it) and filled with yellowish scent liquid. While the brand name and logo are printed on the bottle, the fragrance name is printed on a white label with a golden frame.
Soo... well, I must say I'm a little disappointed with this scent. Not because he'd smell bad or anything, because he doesn't smell bad. No, it simply smells too inconspicuous, where this impression is intensified by the rather small Sillage. In addition, when you smell the scents together, you get a nice scent, but one (or me) still has the feeling that none of these scents really want to get going.
That's a pity, because the fragrance has some nice scents to offer, where with a little more Sillage all this might have been a much nicer summer fragrance. Okay, it may be a "fraiche" scent now, but it's just quite weak. Otherwise it was thought therefore also only for the refreshment and is not suitable as evening smell for example at all.
Even for me, who likes figs very much (if they don't smell too stuffy as I said), as well as tea (which isn't very much present here), this smell is quite unspectacular, so I wouldn't even recommend a test, because you should save your arm (or where you spray yourself) for something better. That's too bad, but that's the way it is.
If you're looking for nice tea scents, you can snoop around in my tea list (yes, I'm just too lazy to list some :D), there are some scents with tea in it, which I personally think are very nice. And fig scents, well,... I also made a list of what it looks like (I forgot it myself!!). Well then, have fun browsing and have a nice evening to all of you :)
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