Fleur de Figuier Roger & Gallet
Fleur de Figuier opens with an unexpected cumin note that adds a dusty, savory edge to the bright grapefruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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 Leaf55
- Musk40
- Cedar35
- Labdanum20
- Black Pepper15
By the editors · 2 min readFleur de Figuier opens with an unexpected cumin note that adds a dusty, savory edge to the bright grapefruit. The combination feels more Mediterranean kitchen garden than traditional fig fragrance, with the spice lending an earthy realism that prevents sweetness from taking hold too quickly.
The fig arrives green and milky, captured through both leaf and fruit. The latex-like sap quality of fig leaf dominates, creating that characteristic woody-vegetal effect familiar to anyone who has brushed against the actual tree. There's a slight sweetness from the fruit, but it remains restrained rather than jammy.
Cedar and musk in the base keep everything close to the skin, transparent rather than dense. This is fig as backdrop to a warm afternoon rather than the main event—casual, wearable, and more interested in evoking the tree's entire presence than just its fruit. A daytime fragrance that works equally well in heat or transitional weather.
