Sainte Figue
Fig leaf opens green and milky, its sap-sticky facets wrapped around a whole crushed fig that smells like coconut water spilled on sun-hot stone.
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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.
- Amber80
- Lactonic70
- Balsamic60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Olibanum
- Fig
- Ambroxan
- Labdanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readFig leaf opens green and milky, its sap-sticky facets wrapped around a whole crushed fig that smells like coconut water spilled on sun-hot stone. Olibanum drifts in immediately, turning the lactonic sweetness dry and incense-powdered, while ambroxan in the heart stretches the fig’s creaminess into a salt-skin amber glow that lasts for hours. Labdanum and patchouli in the base darken the incense trail, adding a leathery, almost tobacco-like rasp that keeps the fruit from tipping into dessert territory. The scent stays close, projecting no farther than a forearm’s length, yet survives a full workday, slowly fading to a softly smoky, faintly coconut skin scent. Cool evenings and early fall are its natural habitat; it feels like wearing the shadow of a fig tree at dusk.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.