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Fig-Tea Nicolaï 2000

7.0 / 10 208 Ratings

A perfume by Nicolaï for women, released in 2000. The scent is fruity-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Fruity

Fresh

Floral

Sweet

Green

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Orange

Osmanthus absolute

Heart Notes

Coriander

Davana

Jasmine

Base Notes

Maté absolute Amber

Amber

Gaiac wood

Perfumer

Patricia de Nicolaï

Ratings

Scent

7.0208 Ratings

Longevity

6.1153 Ratings

Sillage

5.6146 Ratings

Bottle

7.1120 Ratings

Value for money

6.370 Ratings

Submitted by Chemist · last update on 02/26/2026.

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Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/13/2023

4Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

FloatingTime
20 Reviews

FloatingTime

3

No tea and a slightly rancid lemon

To me, this scent is more citrus and fig than tea.

It opens on a sharp osmanthus note and get worse from there.

Also, almost right away, a very unpleasant, shrill and bitter note develops on my skin. It smells more of rancid lemons (the ones that start to look white/blue and hairy), rather than fresh ones. Big no.

07/26/2024

6Scent 6Longevity 6Sillage

Jomas
32 Reviews

Jomas

2

Osmanthus with even more osmanthus

It's quite nice, but under no circumstances should you order it blindly, expecting some Phylosikos tea! :)) While the green fig is evident in the opening, it quickly disappears, and it wouldn't have even crossed my mind that the fragrance is supposed to be about tea if I hadn't read its name before.

For me, Fig Tea is mainly about osmanthus, with all its aromatic and fruity, even leathery aspects: velvety apricots, a drop of honey and an eucalyptus tree.

What bothers me a bit is that whiff of cleaning products that I notice in almost all of Nicolai's citrus scents. It's not very pronounced here, but still. Average performance.

03/02/2016

9Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

2

Best Fig Ever

Patricia de Nicolai continues to amaze me with her talent at combining notes in non-obvious ways to create beauty. Usually, I want to drink in her creations. It want to drown in Fig-Tea, ordered as soon as I sniffed the decant. This is a fig a girl can adore. Not too sweet or jammy. Davana's dangerously wistful floral appeal helps, as do the distinguished base and inventive heart. Together they turn this fragrance into olfactory ecstasy. Can't wait to be drenched in it.

02/11/2025

6Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Raluko111
471 Reviews

Raluko111

2

Osmanthus bomb detonated. No fig, no tea.

The sweetness in the opening can be overwhelming, but it does slowly dissipate with time. Didn't pick up much fig, but an osmanthus bomb just blew up in my face. Petals, petals everywhere, sweet, bubble-gummy, exaggerated. I can pick up some orange, coriander, still no fig. Is there tea in this? I can't find it. Why Fig-Tea?! Why name a perfume after the least featured notes?! The dry down is strange and medicinal.

Not sure what to make of this one. Not a fan, but I don't hate it, either. It's just...odd.

Updated on 02/11/2025

07/24/2012

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

1

sweet whisp

I don’t quite get this one. I detect a sweet anise/licorice note and a non-specific fruity/floral feel, but neither of the notes in the name, nor any of the notes in the de Nicolai press (osmanthus, davana, jasmine.) I guess what’s listed as an osmanthus note could be showing up as a peachy sweetness, but if so I’m only finding the fruitiness, not the flower.

Fig-Tea could be used as a cologne-style summer fragrance, but over time it trades freshness for sweetness, winding up with more sugar than flavor. There is an interesting similarity to Aurelian Guichard’s Aqua Allegoria Anisia Bella for Guerlain. The floral/anise tune common to each takes different paths, though. Rather than Fig-Tea’s sweeter and fruitier turn, Anisia Bella starts with more complexity (I know, surprising for an AA) and grows cooler, more powdery over time.

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