Premier Figuier
Premier Figuier established fig as a serious perfumery accord before it became a genre.
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.
- Fig Leaf85
- Sandalwood60
- Musk30
- Green20
- Amber10
By the editors · 2 min readPremier Figuier established fig as a serious perfumery accord before it became a genre. Olivia Giacobetti's construction opens with fig leaf — that raw, slightly milky-green rupture at the top — before fig itself emerges in the heart alongside sandalwood, which provides a warm, smooth bed for the sap-green character to rest against. The coconut in the base is subtle, more almond-milky than tropical, rounding the sandalwood without sweetening it into confusion.
Lime at the base is almost imagined — a brightness that keeps the drydown from becoming too rounded. Premier Figuier smells like mid-afternoon in a Mediterranean garden, the moment between the heat and the shadow, before the fig falls. It predates the fig-and-wood category it helped create and remains one of its most convincing arguments.
