Philosykos Eau de Parfum
The fig tree in its entirety—leaves, bark, milky sap, and fruit—captured with almost documentary precision.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Fig
- Coconut
- Cedar
- Black Pepper
- Benzoin
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readThe fig tree in its entirety—leaves, bark, milky sap, and fruit—captured with almost documentary precision. Philosykos opens green and radiant, the bitterness of torn fig leaves meeting the creamy sweetness of ripe fruit. There's an unexpected warmth from coconut that reads more like sun-heated wood than tropical beach, grounding the brightness without sweetening it further.
As it develops, the composition reveals its structural backbone: dry cedarwood that mimics the silvery bark and dusty Mediterranean earth beneath the tree. The effect is less about wearing a fragrance than standing in dappled shade on a hot afternoon, bark rough against your palm.
Best suited to those who prefer their green scents rendered in full, unvarnished detail rather than polite garden-party versions. It wears close but insistent, particularly compelling in warm weather when skin amplifies its vegetal honesty.
Scent twins
In this family
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